VISUAL CULTURE

Senior Lecturer & Research Fellow, Middlesex University, School of Arts & Education

EDUCATION

1994-1998 - The University of Sydney & University of Technology Sydney: PhD Title of thesis: Ocular Desires: Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages

1990-1993 - The University of Sydney: BA (Hons)

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODIES & LEARNED SOCIETIES

Higher Education Academy member

CAREER DETAILS

Sep 2004-ongoing - Research Fellow (0.5) in Visual Culture, Middlesex University

Jul 2003-ongoing - Programme Leader, MA Film & Visual Cultures, Middlesex University

Jan 2003-ongoing - Lecturer (0.5) in Visual Culture, Middlesex University

Sep 1999-Dec 2002 - Visiting Lecturer: Module Leader / Seminar Leader on BA History of Art & Architecture modules, Middlesex University

Mar 2000-Mar 2003 - Senior Lecturer (0.5); BA Theory Coordinator (Design School), Chelsea College of Art & Design

Sep 1999-Mar 2000 - Visiting Lecturer: BA Design & Public Art programme, Chelsea College of Art & Design

RESEARCH

Recent publications include Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages (2002) and ‘Carnal Relations: Embodied Sight in Merleau-Ponty, Roger Bacon and St Francis’ in the Journal of Visual Culture, (2005), both of which use postmodern and premodern texts and images to think about genealogies of the flesh, vision and affect.

Currently working on embodiment and the machinery of war in First World War Britain: an interdisciplinary project that will include case studies in industrial history; medical photography and illustration; prosthetics and the visual cultures of mechanised warfare. Several conferences have been planned around the theoretical and historical dimensions of these themes.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2005 – ‘Carnal Relations: Embodied Sight in Merleau-Ponty, Roger Bacon and St Francis’, in the Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 4.1, April

2002 – Sight and Embodiment in the Middle Ages (London: Palgrave)

2001-02 – ‘The Corporeal Sublime’, in the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Special Issue on Affect and Sensation, Vol 2.2, 3.1, pp 61-75.

CONFERENCE PAPERS & TALKS

Papers delivered at ‘Uncommon Senses: The Senses in Art and Culture’, Concordia University (2000); the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand conference (2001); the Bartlett School of Architecture visiting speakers programme (August 2003) and the 2004 Design History Society conference on the politics of design and military culture (September 2004). Invited panel chair at the 2001 AAANZ Conference on art, affect and sensation; the 2003 Anglo-American Conference on histories of the Body, and co-organiser of a Welcome Trust Centre conference ‘Corporealities: The Contested Body in 19th and 20th-century Medical Photography and Illustration’ to be held on the 22nd and 23rd of April 2005, at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick.

RESEARCH SUPERVISION

PhD titles: ‘Damien Hirst: The Legacy of the Sublime in Contemporary Art and Culture’ (Middlesex University)

‘Re/placing Public Art’ (practice-based PhD, Chelsea College of Art & Design)

‘Viatopias: Urban streetscapes in spatial theory and visual practice’ (practice-based PhD, Chelsea College of Art & Design)

TEACHING INTERESTS

Histories and theories of the body; histories and theories of vision and visuality; modernism and modernity; public art and the politics of urban regeneration.

CONSULTANCY

1999 – Victoria & Albert Museum: Department of Adult and Community Education, Consultant on ‘Sacred Spaces’ project. Developed textual and visual resources for use in courses, workshops and self-guided Gallery tours.