Dr. Joelle Del Rose
Adjunct Faculty
Ph.D European History, Wayne State University; Master of Arts, Wayne State University; Master of Arts (Hons.), University of St. Andrews, Scotland
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Joelle Del Rose is a historian of material culture. Her research examines the intersection of luxury goods and architectural spaces in relation to evolving ideas about sexuality and gender during the long eighteenth century. She is particularly interested in the material aspects of fantasy and representations of the erotic imagination amongst middle-class Britons during the Georgian era.
Professional Experience
Joelle Del Rose has been teaching university courses in American and European history at several community colleges and at Wayne State University since 2005. In 2020, she accepted a position at the College for Creative Studies to teach Art History. She also works as a fine art
appraiser.
Significant Publications, Presentations and Exhibitions
- “Material Objects and the Making of
Enlightenment Selves” Panel Chair, American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies, Baltimore, Spring 2022 - “The Unchaste Chaise:” Gender, Sexuality, and the Social Power of
Furniture from Eighteenth-Century England to Kellyanne Conway, Popular
Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA) National
Conference, Washington DC, April 2019 - “Have Sex on Rugs that’s Persian:” Sexual Utopias from Beckford to
Biggie, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association
(PCA/ACA) National Conference, San Diego, April 2017 - “Thick Scandal and ‘Right Bohea:” Anxiety and Contested Power at the
Eighteenth-Century British Tea Table, Gender and Early Modern Studies
Symposium, (GEMS) April 2014 - “The Luxurious Fancies of Vice:” Sexual Connection and Material
Pleasure in the Eighteenth-Century Erotic Imagination,” Emotional
Objects: Touching Emotions in Europe 1600-1900 Conference, Institute
of Historical Research, London, October 2013 - “Temptation at the Tea Table: Porcelain, Politeness, and Material
Pleasure in the Eighteenth-Century Social Sphere”, GEMS Symposium,
Wayne State University, Spring, 2013 - “The Social Sphere: Power, Politeness, and Propriety at the
Eighteenth-Century British Tea Table.” Gender and Early Modern Studies
Symposium, Wayne State University, Spring 2012 - “Thou Art a Whore:” Actionable Words and Gendered Insult in Early
Modern London GEMS Symposium, Wayne State University, Spring 2011
“Ten-Cent Sex: Homosexual Dimestore Novels in Mid Century America”
Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association(PCA/ACA)
