Biography
Dr Rough graduated with a PhD in Art History from the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in 2010 and a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Gallery Studies in 2016.
He has been employed teaching on the MA Combined Studies Course (formerly the Evening Degree programme) at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø since 2001.
Between 2002 and 2004 he was employed as a Lecturer in Art History at Dundee College of Further Education. In the Museum Sector, he has also been employed as Learning and Engagement Officer with HMS Unicorn in Dundee between 2015 and 2018, before appointment as Operations Manager with HMS Unicorn between 2018 and 2021.
Teaching
Alongside Dr Emily Savage and Dr Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri, Dr Rough co-leads the School's Digital Art History MLitt programme: /subjects/art-history/digital-art-history-online/
Dr Rough is also co-ordinator of the School's Short Course programme:Ìý
Dr Rough is also the School's MA Combined Studies Co-ordinator.Ìý
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This includes managing delivery of the following modules:
AH1901: Western Art from the Renaissance to the Baroque
AH2901: Art in the Modern Period
Dr Rough also delivers the following MA Combined Studies modules:
AH3901: Walter Richard Sickert and European Art, c.1880-c.1940
AH3902: City, Country, and Society in Nineteenth Century French Art
AH3904: From Hogarth to Sickert: British Painting and the Theatre, 1740-1930
AH3905: 'No day without a line': The Etching Revival in Britain: 1830-1930
AH3906: Independant Research Project
Alongside Dr Emily Hanson, Dr Rough co-leads the project 'Phenomenal Bodies: Exploring Disability in Scottish Academic Collections'.
Research areas
With a focus on the relationship between British art and the theatre in the long-nineteenth century, Dr Rough also has an interest in 19th century printmaking. He has published widely on his research including essays for Tate Britain's 'Walter Sickert' exhibition catalogue (2022), The British Art Journal, The Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, Tate Britain’s Camden Town Group in Context Research Project, and the Tate: In Focus series.
Dr Rough also delivered talks on his research at Tate Britain, Mansfield College, Oxford, the National Galleries of Scotland, Dundee’s Orchar Gallery and the Birmingham and Midlands Institute.
In 2013 he developed the Orchar Collection: Prints project - a website generously supported by the AHRC Cultural Engagement Fund:
Dr Rough welcomes enquiries from potential postgraduate students with interests in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and theatre, and the history of etching in Britain in the 19th century.
PhD supervision
- LienÌýLeung
- RenatoÌýTrotta
Selected publications
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Nan, W., Rough, B. & Hanson, E., 2025
Research output: Other contribution
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Rough, B., 25 Apr 2024
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Rough, B., 1 Jan 2023, History Scotland, 23, 1.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Rough, B., 1 Dec 2023, A Dundee miscellany. Society, A. H. (ed.). Dundee: Abertay Historical Society, p. 105-140 36 p. (Publication (Abertay Historical Society); no. 64).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Rough, B., 10 Mar 2023, In: Burlington Magazine. 165, 1440, p. 305-307 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Rough, B., 21 May 2022, Fortean Times, 419, p. 28-35 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Rough, W. W., 26 Apr 2022, Walter Sickert. Chambers, E. (ed.). 1st ed. London: Tate Publishing, 4 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Rough, W. W., 30 Sept 2021, National Museums Liverpool.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Rough, W. W. & Shaw, S. (Editor), 1 Jan 2015, Tate In Focus, p. 0 0 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article
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Rough, W. W., 1 Dec 2014, In: The British Art Journal. XV, 2, p. 54-58 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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