Registered Practitioner of the Higher Education Academy (since January 2007)

Membership Secretary for British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) (since September 2009)

External Examiner for BA and MA Art History/Museum and Gallery Studies programmes at Aberystwyth University (since April 2010)

Provision of Historical and Critical Studies to Levels 1 and 2 Fine Art and Design students; dissertation supervision at Level 3; Award Co-ordinator for MA in Art History and Curating.

My research interests are nineteenth-century art and literature, contemporary British art, gender theory, contemporary masculinities and postfeminism. My doctoral research was on Edward Burne-Jones’s Pygmalion and the Image paintings and their relation to contemporary notions of artistic masculinity. My MA dissertation was on representations of women reading in Victorian art. I developed research undertaken for my dissertation into an essay on Ruskin and women’s reading (now published) and on a painting by Robert Braithwaite Martineau (‘Women, Reading and Space in R. B. Martineau’s The Last Chapter’).

Contributions to Peer-Reviewed Journals: 

'Recent Work on Pygmalion in Nineteenth-Century Literature', Literature Compass, 7, July 2010

Guest co-editorship, including co-written Introduction, of special issue of Critical Survey (Victorian Masculinities), 20:3, December 2008

‘Ruskin, Women’s Reading, and Commodity Culture’, special issue of Nineteenth-Century Prose on John Ruskin (Guest Editor: Professor Sharon Aronofsky Weltman), 35:1, Spring 2008, pp. 135-160

 

Contributions to Non Peer-Reviewed Journals: 

 

Reviews: 

'Art for Art’s Sake: Aestheticism in Victorian Painting by Elizabeth Prettejohn’, Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, Summer 2009

'Writing on the Image: Reading William Morris (ed. David Latham)’, Journal of William Morris Studies, Summer 2008 

‘Masculinities in British Art and Literature, 1750-1900’, Art History, 30:2, April 2007, pp. 289-293 

Other projects: 

Teaching specialisms include: early 20th century European art; American and European art c. 1945-1975; contemporary British art; critical theory; gender theory.