Teaching
I teach a range of topics spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Key subjects and themes of my teaching have included: Romantic art and literature, early photography, artistic and literary figurations of science and industry in the nineteenth century, Symbolist art and poetry, twentieth-century avant-gardism, and the history of the Surrealist Movement, which is the principal focus of my research.
Research
Exhibitions/Displays:
> (with Kirstie Meehan) ‘Rebel Presses: Resistance in Print During the Second World War’, Modern Two, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, June 2025-January 2026.
Books:
> Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories, and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement (Bloomsbury, 2023).
> Historical Dictionary of Surrealism (Rowman & Littlefield / Bloomsbury, 2021).
Book/catalogue chapters:
> ‘Endless Metamorphosis: Surrealism and Alchemy’, Surrealism and Magic: Enchanted Modernity (Prestel / Peggy Guggenheim Collection / Museum Barberini, 2022).
> ‘Appreciating Magic Art Today: On the Terrain, Reception and Resonances of Breton’s Project’, Magic Art Redux (Fulgur, 2024).
> ‘Morphologies of Death: Revivification of the Tarot, Alchemy and Heraldry in the Art of Jorge Camacho’, Surrealism and the Tarot (Fulgur, 2025).
> ‘Die Romantik des Surrealismus: Über Träume, Widerstand und die poetische Fülle des Lebens’, Rendezvous der Träume: Surrealismus und Deutsche Romantik (Hatje Cantz / Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2025).
> ‘Hommagen’, Rendezvous der Träume: Surrealismus und Deutsche Romantik (Hatje Cantz / Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2025).
Articles:
> ‘Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Black Magic, Gothicism and Nihilism in Gherasim Luca’s The Passive Vampire (1941-1945), Dada/Surrealism vol. 24 (April 2023).
> ‘Oceanic Metamorphoses: Easter Island, Paul Gauguin and “Magic Art” through the Eyes of the Surrealists’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing vol.54 no.5 (February 2019).
> ‘Supernatural Beings, Shamans and Dream-places: Jules Monnerot and the Native American Touchstones of Surrealism’s Mythological Realignment, 1939-1945’, The Space Between: Literature and Culture, 1914-45 vol.14 (December 2018).
> ‘Crystalline Thought: Alchemy and “Visionary Mineralogy” in the Writings of André Breton’, immediations: The Courtauld Institute of Art Journal of Postgraduate Research vol.4 no.1 (December 2016).
Education
BA – Courtauld Institute of Art (2012)
MA – Courtauld Institute of Art (2013)
PhD – Courtauld Institute of Art (2017)
Postdoctoral
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2020-2023)
Professional qualifications
Accredited FHEA
