Baylee Woodley, PhD(c)
Phone: +1 672 974 2606
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Education
PhD(c)
2021-Present
University College London, History of Art
Supervisor: Professor Robert Mills
Areas of Specialization: Late Medieval Visual and Material Culture, Cultural Histories of
Femininity, Queer Theory, Femme Theory, Manuscript Studies, Queer Performance
Art, Digital Humanities
MA
2019-2021
University of Victoria
Art History and Visual Studies
Supervisor: Professor Catherine Harding
BA
2014-2018
University of Victoria
Art History and Visual Studies Major (Honours with Distinction)
Medieval Studies Minor
Teaching Experience
Summer 2024
Instructor, Queer Art History Widening-Participation Summer Course, University College London
2022-2024 Editorial Assistant, Oxford Art Journal, Oxford University Press
Fall 2023 Teaching Assistant, Art in London Before 1600, University College London
Summer 2023 Instructor, Queer Art History Widening-Participation Summer Course,
University College London
Spring 2023 Research Assistant, Supporting LGBT and Queer Histories in Secondary
Schools, Knowledge Exchange Project, Robert Mills and Rebecca Jennings,
University College London
Fall 2022 Teaching Assistant, History of Art BA Core Course, University College London
2019-2021 Teaching Assistant, Art History and Visual Studies, University of Victoria
(AHVS 120, AHVS 295B, AHVS 392 A01/02)
Fall 2021 Module Support Assistant, Professor Robert Mills, University College London
Summer 2021 Research Assistant, Professor Carolyn Butler Palmer, University of Victoria
Project: Curatorial Incubator: Caring for Women Artists (online exhibition
development)
2018-Present Performer and Producer (queer cabaret-style performances and productions)
2018-2021 Contractor, Pink Sheep Media
2020-2021 Graduate Fellow, University 101, University of Victoria
2019-2021 Research Assistant, Professor Melia Belli Bose, University of Victoria
Project: gtog.uvic.ca
2017-2020 Teaching Assistant, Administrator, University 101, University of Victoria
2017-2019 Research Assistant, Professor Marcus Milwright and Professor Erica Dodd,
University of Victoria
Summer 2016 Archival Assistant, Hallmark Heritage Society
2015-2016 Communications Director, Medieval Studies Department, University of Victoria
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Community and Departmental Service
2021-Present Editor and Peer-reviewer, UCL, History of Art Graduate Student Journal, Object
2020-Present Curator, “Queer Art History” (created by Casey Hoke)
2021-2023 EPQ Mentor, Art History Link-Up
2021-2022 Interviewer, Lesbian Elders Oral Hirstory Project, Lesbian Herstory Archive, New
York
2019-2020 Co-chair, Art History and Visual Studies Graduate Association, University of
Victoria
2019-2020 Organizer, Art History and Visual Studies “Visual Impetus” Conference
2018-2020 Ambassador, Victoria Pink Pages
2017-2018 Co-chair, Art History and Visual Studies Undergraduate Student Association
2016-2018 Board Member, Art History and Visual Studies Student Association
2017 Organizer, Art History and Visual Studies “Emerging Exchanges” Conference
2015-2017 Admin. Assistant, Medieval Studies Course Union
2016 Organizer, Art History and Visual Studies “Emerging Exchanges” Conference
2015-2016 Committee Member, Medieval and Religious Studies Student Conference
2014 Volunteer writer, Martlet
2014 Volunteer ESL Teacher, Beijing
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Woodley, Baylee. “Failing Femininities: The Femmes of Additional MS 37049.” Object 24 (1): 7-28. https://student-journals.ucl.ac.uk/obj/article/id/1535/.
Presentations
June 2024
Paper: “Parchment and Pleasers: Feeling Femme in the Archive,” Queer and Trans History Now Symposium, University of Oxford
July 2023
Paper: “Forsaken, Flamboyant, and Failed Femininities: Thinking between the Medieval and the Modern,” qUCL PGR Work-in-Progress Symposium, University College London
July 2023
Paper: “Touching Excess: Queering Femininity in the Folds,” International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds
June 2023
Paper: “Old Paper—No Value: Remediating ‘Hirstory’ Through Digital Parchment and Sapphic Strip Tease,” Summer Symposium, Association for Art History, Glasgow Women’s Library
June 2023
Roundtable: “Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion,” History of Art, University College London
September 2022
Paper: “What a Knight: Exploring the possibilities of anachronistic fantasy and cross-temporal drag,” Getty Institute, “Mythical Pasts, Fantasy Futures: The Middle Ages in Modern Visual Culture” Conference
September 2021
Public Panel: “Making Art History Relevant,” Moderated by Stephanie Storey (fiction author)
April 2021
Paper: “Pleasure and the Difference it Makes: Remediatory Queer Digital Archiving for Sensual Sodomites and Contemporary Imagineers,” University of Victoria, AHA! (Art Historians and Alumni) Seminar
July 2020
Paper: “Remediating Pleasure(s) in the Queer Digital Archive: Visual Knowledge Production and ‘Intra-Action’ in Medieval Material and Contemporary Digital Culture,” York University, Humanities Graduate Student Association, “Designing the Self” HUGSA Conference
March 2020
Paper: “Designing Desire: The Power of Queering and Telling Premodern Lesbian Herstories,” University of Victoria, German, Slavic, and Holocaust Studies, “Identity, Gender, Ideology,” Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference
January 2020
Paper: “Lesbian Possibilities: Queer Desire in Premodern France,” University of Victoria, Art History and Visual Studies “Visual Impetus” Graduate Conference
November 2017
Paper: “Engaging Episteme in the Library of Louise of Savoy,” University of Victoria, Art History and Visual Studies “Emerging Exchanges” Undergraduate Conference
March 2017
Poster: Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award, “Mapping Medieval Morals: Programs of Systematic Ethical Reflection,” University of Victoria, Student Union Building
November 2016
Paper: “The Art of Covering Christ with Pitch: The Visual Importance of Hugh of Saint Victor’s Moral Ark,” University of Victoria, Art History and Visual Studies “Emerging Exchanges” Undergraduate Conference
October 2015:
Poster: “Necromancy” at “The Science of Words,” University of Victoria, Medieval Studies Annual Undergraduate Student Conference
March 2014:
Paper: “Lions and Dogs in the Westminster Abbey Bestiary” at Medieval Minutes, University of Victoria, Special Collections
Workshops
February 2021
“Building Ourselves, Building Our Archives,” University of Victoria, University 201 Program
Exhibitions
January 18-April 11, 2020
“Urban Regalia: Westshore Stories,” Legacy Art Gallery, Curated by University of Victoria Art History and Visual Studies Students under the guidance of Dr. Carolyn Butler-Palmer and Yolanda Skelton
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Grants/Fellowships/Awards
2023-2024 University College London, Department Research Studentship
2020 University of Victoria, M.A. & D.E. Breckenridge Graduate Award
2019 Robert S. & Muriel A. Raguin Graduate Scholarship
2019 The Flora Hamilton Burns Graduate Fellowship
2019 University of Victoria Fellowship
2019 University of Victoria Graduate Award
2017 University of Victoria Nominee for the Rhodes Scholarship
2017 Nellie Holroyd Scholarship in Art History
2017 Patricia Burns Keir Prize in Canadian Art
2016-2017 Jamie Cassels Undergraduate Research Award
2016-2017 Presidential Scholarship
2016-2017 Lindisfarne Scholarship
2014-2015 University of Victoria Entrance Scholarship