Art History
Awards & Grants
2023, Mary Vorse House Artist Residency, Provincetown, MA
2023, Authors’ Foundation Grant, Society of Authors
2020-22, Terra Foundation For American Art, Academic Program Grant, American Art and the Political Imagination
2019, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Travel Grant
2019, SAVAnT @ CHASE Research Travel Awards Shortlist Prize
2018, AHRC-funded CHASE Doctoral Studentship (2018-21)
Selected Media
Review - ‘Edward Hopper as Puritan,’ New York Times, Roberta Smith, 1 November 2023
“Early Works by Edward Hopper Found to be Copies of Other Artists,” New York Times, Blake Gopnik, 28 September 2020
“Art student exposes Edward Hopper as not quite the American ‘original,” The Times, by David Sanderson, 1 October 2020
“Some of Edward Hopper’s Earliest Paintings are Copies of Other Artists’ Work,” Smithsonian Magazine, by Nora McGreevy, 1 October 2020
“The story behind a student who discovered Edward Hopper’s earliest paintings were copies,” The Art Newspaper, by Hannah McGivern, 6 October 2020
“Edward Hopper ‘copied other artist’s paintings’: Art student debunks legendary artist’s claim to be an ‘American original,” Daily Mail, by Jack Newman, 1 October 2020
“Some of Edward Hopper’s Earliest Paintings Are Actually Copies He Made From a How-To Art Magazine,” Artnet, by Sarah Cascone, 30 September 2020
“Edward Hopper’s Earliest Oil Works Are Copies of Other Paintings, Researcher Claims,” New York Observer, by Helen Holmes, 29 September 2020
“Early Paintings by Edward Hopper Found to Be Replicated From Magazines,” Hyperallergic, by Valentina Di Liscia, 30 September 2020
Teaching
2023: Lecturer, “Showcasing Art History", The Courtauld Institute of Art
2021-22: Associate Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art
2021: Guest Lecturer, MA: “New York-London-Paris 1880-1940”, The Courtauld Institute of Art
2020-21: Teaching Assistant, The Courtauld Institute of Art
Education
PhD History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, doctorate awarded 2022
Thesis: ‘Memory and Myth: Edward Hopper and American Identity, 1882-1940’
Supervised by David Peters Corbett; advised by Professor Jo Applin
Examined by Sarah Churchwell and Alexander Nemerov, passed with no corrections
Funded by AHRC/CHASE (the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts in South-East England)
MA History of Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Distinction
Special Option: ‘Art, Artists and 20th Century Modernism in Europe: Works, Contexts, Meanings’, taught by Professor Christopher Green.
Dissertation: ‘On Reflection: Lucian Freud’s Self-Portraits’
BA History of Art, University of Bristol, First Class Honours
Dissertation: ‘The Window and the Void in the Work of Edward Hopper’
Academic Conferences
Convenor: ‘American Art and the Political Imagination,’ The Courtauld Institute of Art (with Madeleine Harrison)
Paper, “Out of Time: Edward Hopper in the 1940s”, 1940s in Focus: American Art in the Decade of Transition, The Courtauld Institute of Art (June 2021)
Paper, “Myth and Mimicry: The Origins of Edward Hopper’s Early Oil Paintings,” Third Year PhD Symposium, The Courtauld Institute of Art (June 2021)
Convenor: Dialogues: Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Politics and Place, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 5 May 2020
Paper, “An American Doppelgänger” Dialogues: Modern and Contemporary Approaches to Politics and Place, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 5 May 2020
Research Interests
Edward Hopper
American visual culture c.1850 – 1980
American identity
American Realism
New England Regionalism
Modernism