Academic

Academic career

2024-27   Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sciences Po, Paris (currently on maternity leave)

2024     Research Fellow, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich  (LMU), funded by a DAAD Research Stay (May-June)

2023-24    Associate Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art (Semester 2)

2023–24   Associate Lecturer, University of York (Semester 1)

2020–23   Graham Robertson Research Fellow, Downing College, University of Cambridge

2022–23   Director of Studies in History of Art, Newnham College, Downing College, and Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge

2019–20   Honorary Fellow, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University

2017–19   Hanseatic Scholar (A. Toepfer Foundation), Institute for Art and Visual History, Humboldt University of Berlin

Education

DPhil in History of Art, 2018, Department of History of Art, University of Oxford

MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture, 2011, Department of History of Art, University of Oxford

BA (Hons) in Philosophy, 2010, University of Cambridge

Teaching

My teaching focuses primarily on art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, visual theory and approaches, gender, and ecocritical and environmental approaches to art history.

Undergraduate modules I have fully designed and led including assessment

• 'Art and Politics: Global Conceptualisms', a new optional module for level 2 and 3 students, University of York (2023-24)

• 'Journeys, Histories, Methods of Display', an optional module for level 2 and 3 students, University of York (2023-24) (not entirely new, but a version of an existing module which I redesigned)

• 'Gender and Modernism, c. 1860–1960', a new special subject course for second- and third-year students, University of Cambridge (2022-23)

Postgraduate modules I have fully designed and led including assessment

• 'Art and Ecology', within a new MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture at the Institute for Continuing Education, University of Cambridge (2021-24), as Course Co-Director and Module Director

Project supervising

• Final-year dissertation supervisor, University of York (2023-24)

• Dissertation supervisor for two postgraduate dissertations, for the MSt History of Art and Visual Culture at the Institute for Continuing Education, University of Cambridge (2023–24)

• Dissertation supervisor for twelve undergraduate dissertations, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge (2021-23)

• Supervisor for 'Objects Portfolio', Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge (2021-23)

Teaching as part of other modules 

• Seminar leader for the BA module 'Learning from Paris: War, Internationalism, Postmodernism', Courtauld Institute of Art (2024)

• Lectures on 'Impressionist Objects', 'Impressionist Technique', 'Abstraction', 'Gender: Feminism and Masculinity', all University of Cambridge (2021-23)

• Undergraduate seminars on 'The Gaze and Psychoanalysis', 'Toulouse-Lautrec and the Nabis'; graduate seminar on 'Art as a Form of Thought' (University of Oxford, 2014–15).

• Small-group supervisor for three modules: 'Making Modernity: Art and Ideas, 1880–1925' (University of Oxford, 2014–15); 'Art Against the World: Visual Art after 1960' (University of Cambridge, 2016); 'Display of Art: From the Wunderkammer to the Public Museum', (University of Cambridge, 2020)

Supporting academic progress

• Director of Studies in History of Art, University of Cambridge (2022-23)

Assessment

In addition to the modules I have fully designed and led, listed above, I have assessed undergraduate examinations, and postgraduate and undergraduate dissertations for the Department of History of Art, Cambridge

As a leader for my module 'Gender and Modernism' I was an examiner, History of Art Department, Cambridge, 2023

Qualifications

Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (qualified 2015)

Academic service

Commitees and trusteeships

Committee member, Downing College, Cambridge, 2021-23 (member of General Purposes Committee, Heong Gallery Management Committee, and subgroups for evaluating Institutional Culture, Educational Attainment, Student Experience)

Charity Trustee of Downing College, Cambridge, 2020-23   

Peer review

For: Bloomsbury Visual Arts; Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide (international journal); International Fellowship programme, Herzog August Library; French History (Oxford University Press journal).

Admissions and access

Admissions interviewer for Downing College, Cambridge, 2020-23

Interviewer, Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, Cambridge University, 2021

Widening access activities (various), Downing College and History of Art Department, Cambridge, 2021

Session leader, Brasenose College widening access scheme, University of Oxford, 2014 and 2014

Convening

Centre for Culture and Ecology Reading Group, University of Durham, 2019-2020

Visual Research Workshop for postgraduates and early career researchers, University of Oxford, 2014-15  

Professional services appointment

Research Impact Officer at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London, 2012-13