Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelites and Romanticism.
I am an art historian and editor with curatorial and collections experience, specialising in John Ruskin, Pre-Raphaelitism, and British Romanticism, currently completing a PhD at Friedrich Schiller University Jena, jointly supervised at the University of York. I have held research positions at the Delaware Art Museum, the Yale Center for British Art, the Dresden State Art Collection, and O3 Gallery, Oxford.
Work & Research
2015–2026Publications
'God's Gothic: Anna Blunden's Ruskinian Vision of Nature and Resistance'
In Gothic Pre-Raphaelitism, University of Wales Press (forthcoming)
'Volcanic Haze and Industrial Gloom: Ruskin, Goodwin and the Aesthetics of Atmospheric Disruption'
In Volcanic Materiality, Edinburgh University Press (forthcoming)
'God is in the Detail': Joseph Noel Paton's Dawn: Luther at Erfurt
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 25/3 (forthcoming)
Co-editor, Picturing the Romantic
Manchester University Press, 2025
'New Woman in Disguise': Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
In Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, Peter Lang, 2022
Curatorial & collections
Curator Talks: Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale
With Sophie Lynford & Rachael DiEleuterio, Delaware Art Museum, 2024
Collections & Provenance Research
H. W. Fichter Kunsthandel, Frankfurt, 2022
Co-curator, three exhibitions
O3 Gallery, Oxford, 2015 — Oxford Art Prize & A Fleeting Voyage: Observing Porthleven
Honours
Art History Residency, Wigwell Lodge
The Association for Art History & The Ampersand Foundation, Oct 2026–Jan 2027
Early Career Research Award
'Colonial Vistas, Exploited Lands: John Skinner Prout and the Environmental Imaginary of Nineteenth-Century Australia', part of Remapping the Anthropocene, with Elisabeth Ansel & Miguel Gaete — AAANZ / AIAH, 2026
DAAD Doctoral Research Grant
Visiting researcher, Yale University & the Delaware Art Museum, 2024
Teaching & talks
'Shamelessly Romantic': The Visual Art of British Romanticism
Advanced seminar, Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Public & academic lectures
Leeds Art History Group · German-British Societies · National Gallery, London · Yale Center for British Art
Organising events
Co-organiser, Archives Unbound: Negotiating Time and Memory in Romantic Visual Culture
International post-graduate workshop, Kunsthistorisches Institut Florence, 2026 — with Elisabeth Ansel, Hannah Baader, Costanza Caraffa, Johannes Grave & Richard Johns
Co-organiser, Reflections on European Romanticism(s) in the Visual Arts
International conference on state of research and future perspectives, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, 2022 — with Johannes Grave, Elisabeth Ansel & Mira Claire Zadrozny
Community