I have lectured on art history, literature and culture as part of both BA and MA courses at Birkbeck, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. I also regularly deliver talks and lectures to study days, schools and societies; a selection appears below.
‘Carriera, Liotard, La Tour: Masters of the Pastel Portrait’, V&A Academy, 7 November 2024.
‘Shakespearean Relics in the Royal Collection’, Wallace Collection History of Collecting study day (‘Collecting Past and Present’), 5 July 2024
‘Wives and Widows: Herne’s Oak, Anne Page and the British Royal Family’, 15 December 2022, The Shakespeare Club, Stratford-upon-Avon
‘James Henry Pullen: Inmate, Inventor, Genius’, Portcullis Trust, London, 1 June 2018
‘Sphinxes and Salomes: Gustave Moreau and French Symbolism’, lecture first delivered as part of the History of Art Short Course, ‘The Art of the Symbolist Movement’, Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village, November 2016
‘Bryan Charnley: The Art of Schizophrenia’, The Art of Psychiatry Society, Robin Murray A. Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, London, 20 August 2015
‘Building on Uncertainty: Two Parmigianino Paintings at the End of the Renaissance’, VIEW Festival of Art History, February 2014
‘The Fallen Woman in Victorian Art’, a lecture for schools on ‘fallen women’ in nineteenth-century genre paintings, designed to tie in to the A-Level set text, Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbevilles
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