Co-author of the exhibition catalogue James Tissot: Victorian Life/Modern Love (Yale Center for British Art, 1999), Marshall is currently working on a monograph on the art of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She has most recently completed a book on the construction of imperialist metropolitan modernity in fine art, entitled City of Gold and Mud: Painting Victorian London (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art for Yale University Press, 2012). Growing out of research for this book is her new project on Victorian representations of fire in paint and print, from which her talk at this conference is drawn. In all her work, Marshall strives to consider the intersections between the material aspects of the artwork or object and the ways in which individual viewers were historically conditioned, embodied, and produced.