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Biography

I specialise in the histories and theories of dance and performance. I am the author of Pina Bausch’s Dance Theatre: Tracing the Evolution of Tanztheater (Edinburgh University Press, 2018), Performance, Masculinity, and Self-Injury (Routledge, 2024), and co-editor of the essay collection Performance in a Pandemic (with Laura Bissell – Routledge, 2021). My new book, What Moves Them: A Global History of Modern Dance will be published by Allen Lane in 2025, and is based on research supported by a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship. In 2020, I was named a New Generation Thinker by the AHRC and BBC.

I co-convene SEXES, a cross-ECA research cluster involving early-career researchers and senior faculty in the fields of gender and sexualities. I co-founded 'Modernist Methodologies: Beyond Fine Art,' an SGSAH-funded research network that focused on the wider material culture of modernism(s) and the avant-garde. I previously convened 'Scotland's Cultural Landscape: Nation, Heritage and the Arts,' an international summer school jointly hosted by the University of Glasgow and the Hunterian Museum in partnership with Hong Kong University.

I obtained my PhD in History of Art and Theatre Studies from the University of Glasgow in 2013. Since then, I have lectured on art and performance at various institutions, including the University of Edinburgh and Glasgow School of Art. In 2015, I held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh), before taking up a post as Teaching Fellow in Modern and Contemporary Art. I was appointed Chancellor's Fellow in 2021, and promoted to Reader in History of Art in 2024. I completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice at the University of Edinburgh in 2018, and I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I maintain a strong interest in movement practice alongside my academic research, and I am a Visiting Lecturer in Dance at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

External positions

Lecturer in Dance, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland

Sept 2017 → …

College Research Themes

  • Cultural Heritage

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