Education
In Progress
PhD, University of York, 2020-present
History of Art, supervised by Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn
Awarded
MA, high merit, The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 2018-2019
History of Art
Course: New York-London-Paris, 1880-1940, taught by Professor David Peters Corbett
BA, cum laude, Bowdoin College, 2014-2018
Art History (major), Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies (minor)
Professional Experience
Current
Commissioning Editor – Drawings, Art UK, February 2024-present
Former
Communications Assistant, York Museums Trust, July 2022-February 2024
Editor in Chief, Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture, University of York, 2021-2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant, History of Art, University of York, spring 2022
Reviews Editor, Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture, University of York, 2020-2021 academic year
Legal Analyst, McAllister Olivarius, September 2019-September 2020
Assistant to the Curator, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2017-2018 academic year
Curator of Student Art, Bowdoin College, September 2015-May 2018
Curatorial Intern, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, summer 2017
Library Administration Intern, The Frick Collection, summer 2016
Gallery Intern, 1708 Gallery, summer 2015
Current and Forthcoming Publications
Exhibition catalogues
“Ethel Sands” and “Laura Alma-Tadema,” in Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain, 1520-1920, Tate Britain, forthcoming May 2024
“Friends and Rivals: the Madox Brown Sisters and Women of Their Circle,” in Uncommon Power: Lucy & Catherine Madox Brown, exhibition catalogue, Watts Gallery & Artists’ Village, 2021.
“James Bowdoin III’s Collection in Context: On Historical Roots and Their Legacies,” in Art Treasures, Gracefully Drawn: James Bowdoin III and America's Earliest Drawing Collection, online catalog, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, 2018.
Book Reviews
Review of Diana Seave Greenwald, Painting by Numbers: Data-Driven Histories of Nineteenth Century Art, 2021, Princeton University Press, immediations, Courtauld Institute of Art, December 2021
Coordinated & Edited Projects
“Beyond Bloomsbury: In Conversation,” with contributions by Caitlin Doley, Nicholas Dunn-McAfee, Emery Davidson, and Jon King, in Aspectus: A Journal of Visual Culture, Issue IV, 2022.
Conferences & Symposia
Organised
May 2021, Spatial Modernities: the Annual Conference of Countervoices, Centre for Modern Studies Postgraduate Forum, University of York, two-day online conference.
Papers Given
March 15, 2024, “The Porous Temporality of Gwen Raverat.” Artworks and Artists in Context: The Women’s Art Collection Conference, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.
September 1, 2023, “The Idea of Italy: Aesthetic Exchange in the Italian Landscapes of Annie Swynnerton and Susan Isabel Dacre.” British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) Annual Conference, University of Surrey.
September 9, 2022, “Performativity in Edna Clarke Hall’s Wuthering Heights Series.” Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries Conference, Leamington Spa Art Gallery and Museum.
June 10, 2022, “The Potential of a Relational Methodology: Rehabilitating the Early Work of Five Women of the Slade.” Re-Considering British Art History: The ECRN and DRN Summer Symposium, Paul Mellon Centre, London.
March 18, 2022, “A Visual Conversation: The Collaborative Friendship Between Annie Louisa Swynnerton and Susan Isabel Dacre.” History of Art Department Conference, University of York.
February 19, 2022, “A Visual Conversation: The Collaborative Friendship Between Annie Louisa Swynnerton and Susan Isabel Dacre.” Communities, Relationships, and Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century, LNCSS Graduate Strand Conference, Senate House, London.
September 1 2021, “The Taste of a Painting: Sensory Embodiment in Vernon Lee’s Gallery Diaries.” Art Writing and the Body, British Association of Decadence Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Invited Presentations
May 2022, “The Slade and Bloomsbury,” gallery talk given to the Friends of York Art Gallery for the exhibition “Beyond Bloomsbury” at York Art Gallery.
November 2021, “Creative/Domestic: Artistic Friendship in the Home & Studio,” panel discussion hosted by Watts Gallery & Artists’ Village.
April 2021, “The Lady Disciples,” given at the Ashcan School and Camden Town Workshop, hosted by Bowdoin College, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, and the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Grants & Awards
First Prize, Doctoral Fellowship Competition, Humanities Research Centre, University of York, 2023
History of Art Department Travel Award, University of York, 2023
Selected and funded participant in the Paul Mellon Centre’s first Art Trade Seminar, July 2022
Recognition Award, Graduate Women International, 2022
Research Support Grant, Paul Mellon Centre, 2021
Grant for Art History, Association for Art History, 2021
Research Funding Award, British Association for Victorian Studies, 2021
Senior Art History Award, Bowdoin College, 2018
Junior Art History Award, Bowdoin College, 2017
Delta Sigma Arts Fellowship, 2016
Bowdoin Faculty Scholarship, 2014
