As Dean for Research, I lead The Courtauld’s strategic research agenda.
I am a specialist in modern and contemporary art in the United States, with a particular focus on ecological and ecocritical histories of American art; the intersection of art, activism, and radical theatre practice; art histories of California and the American West; and alternative sites and networks of artistic production and dissemination.
My publications include No More Masterpieces: Modern Art After Artaud (Yale University Press, 2021), Lawrence Alloway: Critic and Curator (edited with Courtney J. Martin and Rebecca Peabody, Getty, 2015), and Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles Art, 1945-1980 (edited with Rebecca Peabody, Andrew Perchuk, Glen Philips, and Rani Singh, Getty, 2011). My writing is also included in exhibition catalogues produced by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, ICA Boston, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Copenhagen Contemporary, White Cube, Barbican Art Gallery, and Courtauld Gallery, and in art history journals including Art History, Art Journal, Oxford Art Journal, the Getty Research Journal, and the Journal of the Archives of American Art.
I teach on the BA Art History degree and convene the MA Special Option American Art in the Age of Ecology.
I am also Editor of the journal Art History.
I am on sabbatical during the Spring 2025 semester.
Selected Publications
