Dr Freya Gowrley is Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Derby. Previously, she was a Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Postdoctoral Fellow, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, and a Visiting Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh’s History of Art department. From 2022 she will be a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, at the University of Valencia, where she will work on the project 'Composite Cultural Production: Transnational and Multidisciplinary Approaches to Pre-Modernist Collage'. Her research focuses on the relationship between identity and visual and material culture in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, exploring this connection through three key sites: the home, the collaged object, and the body. Her monograph, Domestic Space in Britain, 1750-1840: Materiality, Sociability and Emotion, is forthcoming with Bloomsbury Academic in 2021, and she has published articles in the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Aphra Behn Online: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, Journal 18, and Eighteenth-Century Fiction.