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I am an art historian, theorist, and educator of art practitioners, with an investment in art’s capacity for positive social change. My research into the aesthetics of feminist anti-nuclear activism at Greenham Common has been supported by the Paul Mellon Centre and the Leverhulme Trust. In addition to the rich interface between art and activism, I am interested in art practices informed by and committed to feminism, as well as psychoanalytic approaches to visual and material culture. 

My publications include the edited collections Feminism Reframed, The Provisional Texture of Reality: Selected Talks and Texts by Susan Hiller, 1977-2007, (with Deborah Cherry), Art into Life: Essays on Tracey Emin, and the monograph The Feminist Uncanny in Theory and Art Practice, where I explore aesthetic mobilisations of discomfort to feminist ends. I have published widely on artists including Quilla Constance, Susan Hiller, Catherine Hoffmann, and Monica Ross, and I am currently working on feminist approaches to heritage and commemoration through art practice. I sometimes curate and consult on curatorial projects involving artists whose practice I have researched, including crochet and textile artist Su Richardson. I am also research associate at the Centre for Visual Identities in Art and Design (VIAD) at the University of Johannesburg, a transnational network of researchers foregrounding priorities and perspectives from the global south.

Education and qualifications

2019: SeniorFellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), ref PR176030 (2019).

2004:DPhil in Modern European Literature, Graduate Research Centrefor the Humanities, University of Sussex.

1998:MA in Comparative Literary Theory (Distinction), Centre forTranslation and Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Warwick.

1997:BA Hons in Modern Letters (1st), Department of Literature,Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University (Greece).

Grants

• AHRB doctoral fees-only award, September 1999 [ref. no.: 99/3279].

Offered for D.Phil. research studentship at the University of Sussex. By application. Value: approx. £9,000.

• State Scholarships Foundation (Greece), October 1999 to March 2003.

Full graduate scholarship in Comparative Literature, 1999, received for D.Phil. research studentship at the University of Sussex. By written examination. Value: approx. £30,000.

• ADRI-funded Teaching Remission of one day per week for 2014-2015 (2014) towards the completion of my book The Feminist Uncanny. Value: approx. £4,000.

• AAH award of £500 towards copyright and reprographic costs for The Feminist UncannyÌý(2014).

• Paul Mellon Centre Publication Grant for Tracey Emin: Art into Life (co-edited with Deborah Cherry), November 2017, value: £1,680.

• Paul Mellon Centre Mid-Career Fellowship for the project The Virtual Feminist Museum of Greenham Common, 2019, value: £15,000.

• Advance HE Connect funding for the project ‘Feminism in an International Art Curriculum’, led by Professor Katy Deepwell (·¬ÇÑÉçÇø), with Alexandra Kokoli (·¬ÇÑÉçÇø), Dr. Catherine Harrington (Tokyo University of the Arts), Professor Griselda Pollock (Leeds University), and Professor Anne Swartz (Savannah College of Art and Design), 2020, value: £1,000.

• Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, Art and Visual Activism at Greenham Common, 2020, value: £30,805.

• British Academy Writing Workshops, ‘Training and Mentorship for Practice-based Researchers in Design, Visual and Performing Arts’, led by Dr. Kene Igweonu as principal investigator (·¬ÇÑÉçÇø), with Alexandra Kokoli (·¬ÇÑÉçÇø), Adeelah Kodabux (·¬ÇÑÉçÇø Mauritius), and Leora Farber (Johannesburg), as co-investigators, 2021, value: £19,754.

• British Academy Writing Workshops Alumni Funding, ‘Transnational Early Career Research Network (TECReN) in Visual and Performing Arts’, led by Prof. Kene Igweonu (UAL), with Alexandra Kokoli, Leora Farber, and Sunday Ododo as co-investigators, April 2023-March 2025, value: £29,930.