Overview

I am a PhD student in Art History and Visual Culture, co-supervised by Dr Patricia Zakreski and Professor John Plunkett. My thesis considers the relationship between the professionalisation of late Victorian and Edwardian women illustrators/cartoonists and the emergence of the New Woman socio-political and cultural phenomenon in Britain. I am also looking at the New Woman's visual representation and how women illustrators/cartoonists contributed to this representation.

More broadly, my research interests include art and literature from the long nineteenth century, focusing on women artists and writers, gender and sexuality, print and exhibition culture, photography, and fashion.

I have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Art (major) and History of Art (minor) from the University of Kansas, an MA in Photography from the University of Plymouth, and an MA in Art History and Museum Curating with Photography from the University of Sussex.

My biography of the poster designer and illustrator Ethel Reed for Yellow Nineties 2.0 was published in 2022. Forthcoming publications include work on Celia Anna Levetus and Jessie Marion King.

In 2023, I was awarded the Amy P. Goldman Fellowship in Pre-Raphaelite Studies hosted by the University of Delaware Library and the Delaware Art Museum and a Dissertation Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. I have also received various awards and grants in support of my research including a Company of Arts Scholars Charitable Trust Award which funded a trip to Glasgow.

I was invited to speak as part of the British Association of Decadence Studies' 'Women of The Yellow Book' Jeudis in 2022 and the Jadavpur-Exeter Seminar Series in 2021. My research has also been presented at the annual conferences of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, and the British Association for Victorian Studies. In 2022, I was a committee member for the Art History and Visual Culture Inaugural PGR Conference.

Alongside my research, I am a PGR Representative for the University of Exeter's Centre for Victorian Studies, representing Exeter at the 2022 Dickens Universe. I am an editor for Romance, Revolution and Reform. For the last three years, I have also volunteered for The Bill Douglas Cinema Museum at the University of Exeter, cataloguing new and old acquisitions while also curating and installing a display on the New Woman in interwar cinema.

In 2022, I was awarded the ASPIRE Associate Fellowship. Since 2020, I have supported teaching the following modules:

AHV1009: Topics in Art History and Visual Culture II
AHV1011: Questions and Methods in Art History and Visual Culture
AHV1012: Approaches to Art History and Visual Culture
EAS1038: The Poem

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