My research engages with the history, politics, and aesthetics of contemporary art, performance, and visual culture, focusing particularly on queer, feminist, and activist art practices.
I have published and presented in these areas, including articles on performance documentation and archives (Platform, 2014), feminist performance practices (n.paradoxa, 2014), and the body in performance (Performance Research, 2015, 2017), and research papers at TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association), PSi (Performance Studies International), the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association, the Association for Art History conference, and symposia at the Nottingham Contemporary Art Gallery and the Arnolfini in Bristol. I have also written reviews for Contemporary Theatre Review, Art History, Women. A Cultural Review, Feminist Review, Studies in Theatre and Performance, and the Times Literary Supplement. In 2017 I co-edited the first book on the work of interdisciplinary artist Kira O’Reilly (published by Intellect and Live Art Development Agency) entitled Kira O'Reilly: Untitled (Bodies).
My monograph, titled Mess and contemporary performance: complexity, containment, and collapse (Routledge), will be published in November 2024. I am currently developing a new research project titled 'Lingering in action: contemporary performance scenes of stasis'.
Prior to joining Ð԰ɵç̨ (in January 2019), I taught at King's College London (English and Liberal Arts), Birkbeck (Modern Theatre), and Queen Mary University of London (English and Drama). I have also contributed to teaching at Sotheby's Institute of Art (Contemporary Art) and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (Contemporary and Experimental Theatre).
At Ð԰ɵç̨, I am the Institute Head of Research Students for Arts, Design, and Performance. I am currently an editor of the peer-reviewed journal . At Ð԰ɵç̨, I am also Programme Leader for the MA in Theatre and Performance. I am a committee member of Ð԰ɵç̨'s branch of the University and College Union (UCU) and I am the branch Research Representative.
I welcome applications from PhD candidates in areas of contemporary performance, live art, queer, feminist, and activist performance practices, critical theory, visual art, and contemporary art history.