NOVEMBER 27, 2025
Watts Gallery and Artists’ Studio, UK
Preparing for the exhibition, Pattledom: The Pattle Sisters and their World.
This exhibition will focus on works of art that were created and collected by the Pattle Sisters, including Julia Margaret Cameron, Virginia Somers, Sophia Dalrymple, and Sara Prinsep.
Currently writing an essay for the exhibition catalogue and planning to deliver a public lecture at the Gallery.
SUMMER, 2025
CASVA fellowship awarded for 2025
I'm happy to share the good news that I have been awarded a Visiting Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA) of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
I have been appointed the Berger Collection Educational Trust Visiting Senior Fellow in British Art, and will be in residence during the Summer of 2025. I'll be working on my new project, "Julia Margaret Cameron's Imperial Shakespeare," an exploration of the ways that Cameron used Shakespearean subjects to express her identification with the expansion of the British empire. Find more info about the program at: https://www.nga.gov/research/casva.html
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Colloquium: Julia Margaret Cameron,
"The Tempest," and the South-West Wind
—with Jeff Rosen (Scholar-in-Residence)
Nov 06, 2024
4:00pm–5:00pm
At the Newberry – Baskes Boardroom
ONGOING
Ongoing research project using The Newberry Library’s Wing Collection:
“Syntax and History: ‘How Prints Look’ and What They Mean”
Plus: Special focus on “Julia Margaret Cameron’s Autotypes.”
MAY, 2024
Julia Margaret Cameron: The Colonial
Shadows of Victorian Photography
(Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and
Yale University Press)
New book to be published in May 2024 in London and in June 2024 in the United States.
SPRING, 2024
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Preparing for a public lecture to be delivered when the exhibition, Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron, opens in May 2024. This exhibition originated at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2023.