Research Interests
Open to PhD applications in the fields of…
- Impressionism
- Gender
- Aesthetics
- 19thc textual and visual studies
Public outreach & key achievements
- I have done a large number of outreach activities with museums, notably with The National Gallery of Ireland and with Dulwich Picture Gallery.
- I have written for The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/three-impressionist-paintings-that-give-an-insight-into-the-complicated-history-of-breastfeeding-in-the-19th-century-190785) and was a guest on Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time in 2022, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001cxwl.
Research students
| PhD Title | The Mirror in 19th-Century Toilette Art |
| Name | Rebecca Gosling |
| Years of study | 2021-24 |
| PhD Title | Interior Spaces in Belgian Art and Architecture (1880-1914): Domesticity, Materiality and Intimacy |
| Name | Apolline Malevez |
| Years of study | 2018-22 |
| PhD Title | Parisien Poesis: Space in the Poetry of Michel Houellebecq, Jacques Roubaud and Jacques Reda |
| Name | Lauren Quigley |
| Years of study | 2016-22 |
Discover More
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
- School of Arts, English and Languages
- Interior Spaces platform at KU Leuven
- Leuven University: Research group: Architecture, interiority, inhabitation
https://architectuur.kuleuven.be/a2i