I am the Senior Lecturer in the History of British Art at Queen Mary, University of London. My most recent book, Art and Action: Painting for Social Change in Victorian England (Oxford University Press, 2026), was funded by an Early Career Leadership Award from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). My first book, The Drawings of G. F. Watts, was published in 2015. I curated the exhibitions “Art and Action: Making Change in Victorian Britain” for Watts Gallery (2020­–21) and “A Life of Drawing” at Leighton House (2022–23). I received my PhD and MPhil in the history of art from King’s College, Cambridge, and a BA in art history from Barnard College, Columbia University in New York, where I won the Virginia B. Wright Prize for art history.