Teaching
History, University of Glasgow
As a Lecturer in Gender History, I convene the public history course “Gender History Applied” for a diverse group of postgraduate students. The course centres queer and postcolonial analysis of cultural and heritage sites, initiatives, and institutions.
I also lecture and lead seminars on team-taught history courses. My contributions focus on queer and gender exhibition histories, curation, and heritage initiatives. Alongside project and dissertation supervision, I teach on courses such as: Gender, Politics and Power; Gender History Concepts; Gender, Culture and Text; Becoming An Historian.
Design, University of Edinburgh
I am currently a guest lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art’s seminal Introduction to Queer Studies course. I first began lecturing on this course in 2021 and, though I have moved on to another university, this is still one of my favourite courses to teach on.
I lecture on Queer Heritage. The surviving fragments of Different from the Others (1919) offer a glimpse of the ambivalent queer politics of early 20th century Berlin. We will investigate its release in the Weimar Republic, partial destruction in the Third Reich, salvage in the Soviet Union, and recuperation in underground queer communities. This lays the ground for an examination of the Institute for Sexual Science which produced the film. The Institute was an extraordinary hub for queer community which combined queer housing, parties, research work, and support for transition with campaigns for the abolition of homophobic and transphobic legislation. The Institute also presented queer people and histories as curiosities for the general public and conducted research into eugenics. Examining the construction and destruction of this unique space and its place in queer cultural memory opens questions of heritage, respectability, and spectacle that remain relevant to queer politics today.
Teaching
History of Art, University of Edinburgh
My role included course coordination for Memorials and Cultural Memory, Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market, and History of Art Work Placement. I also led tutorials and seminars for core team-taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses including Research: Theories and Methods, Analysing Art History, and The Cultures and Politics of Display. Additional responsibilities included postgraduate dissertation supervision, assessment diversification, pastoral care for students, assessment setting and marking, collections engagement, field trips to heritage sites, PhD annual reviews, policy feedback, exam board attendance, and other duties.
Original course: Memorials and Cultural Memory
Memorials and monuments shape public spaces and cultural memory long after those who commission and produce them pass on. In this course we will explore how their meanings shift over time and what happens when they are interpreted as symbols of repression or resistance.
Through a series of case studies from across the world we will examine the production, reception, and afterlife of memorials, as well as their complex relationships with the events they commemorate and the creative interventions they inspire. Using memorials as a starting point, we will examine legacies of cultural dominance, commemoration, and iconoclasm in public spaces. This interdisciplinary course focuses on the art and visual culture of memorials but also draws from heritage studies, queer theory, postcolonial theory, and dark tourism to build a picture of our changing relationship with the past.
Visual Culture, University of Aberdeen
My first experience of teaching in a university was working as a tutor and seminar leader from 2012-14 at the University of Aberdeen when I taught on the Introduction to Film and Visual Culture courses for a few years.