Supervised by Dr Caroline Levitt
Advised by Dr Tom Young
Supported by the Tavolozza Foundation
My research focuses on nineteenth-century British drawings, with particular attention to representations of the supernatural and the macabre. Alongside my academic research, I work at the Ashmolean Museum (University of Oxford) and have held roles at the National Gallery, Sotheby’s, and Phillips, delivering complex projects across valuations, research, and digital engagement.
Research Interests
- History of Belief
- 19th and 20th century drawings
- Material Culture
- Magic and the Occult
- British Folklore
Conference Papers
- ‘A Visual Séance: Materializing the Spectral Imagination in Pre-Raphaelite Drawings’, Folklore and the Senses, The Folklore Society Annual Conference in collaboration with the Department of Folklore and Ethnology, University College Cork, Ireland, June 2025.
- ‘Material Hauntings: The Sensory Afterlife of Rossetti’s The Raven‘, Beyond the Visual: Full Body in British Art History – Past, Present and Future, Association for Art History Autumn Symposium, London, October 2025.
Publications
- ‘In the Shadow of Certainty’, in The Visual Commentary on Scripture, ed. by Ben Quash (London: The Visual Commentary on Scripture Foundation), September 2025.
- ‘The Raven (ca. 1848) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’, online catalogue entry (London: Victoria and Albert Museum), September 2025.
Grants & Awards
- Tavolozza Foundation PhD Scholar, 2025–2029
- Eve Borsook Legacy Fund, 2025
- Friends of the Courtauld Institute Fund, 2025
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), 2024, 2025
- Association for Art History, 2024
Education
- MA Christianity & the Arts, King’s College London in association with the National Gallery (2017–2018)