Writing
PUBLICATIONS
Scholarly books
2026 Close Writing: Kathy Acker, Cookie Mueller and Love-In-Pieces (Durham: Duke University Press, 2026)
2025 Gestures: A Body of Work (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2025). Co-edited with Nell Osborne and Hilary White
Scholarly journal articles and book chapters
2026 “Nan Goldin’s Sisterly, Sartorial Worlds,” in Suzanne Ferris and Anna Backman Rogers eds., Women’s Fashion Photography—An Illustrated Volume (London: Bloomsbury, 2026)
2026 With Gemma Blackshaw,“Flight as Method: A Sick Women Exchange in Material Encounters, and the Time it Takes to Care,” in Fiona Johnstone, Allison Morehead, and Imogen Wiltshire eds., Art and the Critical Medical Humanities (London: Bloomsbury Academic / Critical Interventions in the Medical and Health Humanities, 2026)
2025 With Gemma Blackshaw, “Close Encounters in the Health Archive of an Aunt, Sister, and Brother: A Sick Women Letter Exchange” in Lifeblood : Munch and the Medicalization of Modern Life (Oslo: Munch Museum, 2025)
2024 “Perversions at her Adolescent Fingertips, Or, Francesca Woodman’s Autoerotic Attentions: An Essay-caress,” in Gestures: A Body of Work (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024)
2024 “‘Everything she touched she owned’: Kathy Acker’s Sick Clothes and Kleptomaniac Close Writing,” in LifeWork: on the autobiographical impulse in contemporary art, writing, and theory, edited by Moran Sheleg (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024)
2023 With Gemma Blackshaw, “Sick Women Correspondents: Practices of Care in Cross-historical Love Letter Writing,” in MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture, 2023
2021 “‘Have you tried it with three?’ Ann Quin, Love Triangles, and the Affects of Art/writing,” Capacious: Journal of Emerging Affect Inquiry 2:3 (2021): 82–107
2019 “Fan Letters of Love,” in Fandom as Methodology: A Sourcebook for Artists and Writers, edited by Catherine Grant and Kate Love (London: Goldsmiths Press, 2019), 149–164
Recent book chapters (selected print publications):
2026 “Dear Dearest Dear Mother,” in Bricks from the Kiln Vol. 8: Letters and Letters
2025 “Atmospheres of Affinity,” in Correspondences de Appel 1975–2025, eds. Martha Jager and Helen Cheney (Amsterdam: De Appel, 2025)
2023 “Touching Desire,” in Masturbatory Reader, edited by Sticky Fingers Publishing (London: Sticky Fingers Publishing, 2023), pp. 69–74
2021 “Nylon Perversions,” in ON FIGURE/S: Drawing After Hans Bellmer, edited by Sharon Kivland, Kate Macfarlane, and Michael Newman (London: MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE / Drawing Room, 2021), pp. 24–31 (3,000 words)
2020 “Looking and Touching, Desire, Closely,” in ON CARE, edited by Sharon Kivland and Rebecca Jagoe (London: MA BIBLIOTHÈQUE, 2020), pp. 30–38 (3,000 words).
Recent commissioned essays/long-form art criticism (selected print/online publications):
2024 With Gemma Blackshaw, “Collaging Letter-voices: Sick Women Correspondents, 2020–ongoing,” The Brooklyn Rail, 2024 (1,000 words)
2022 “Too Likeable: To the Side of Rosemary Mayer,” commissioned essay for MAP Magazine, August 2022, Part 1 & Part 2
2021 “Textiles of Trouble, Or, Dropping Threads and Finding New Ones,” exhibition essay for Staying with the Trouble, l’êtrangere gallery, April 2021
2019 “feel it throb,” in THROBWERK: Kate Lyddon and Angela Maasalu (Tallinn Art Hall, 2019)
2019 “Eleanor Antin on Art, Ageing and Grief,” frieze.com, 29 May 2019
2019 “Stitching Bodies: Mari Katayama’s Handiwork,” in MARI KATAYAMA (London: White Rainbows, 2019)
2017 “With Love, A Letter to Cookie, and her Stories,” Cabinet 62, Fall 2016–Winter 2017 (published spring 2017), pp. 23-33
2017 “Postcards to Performance (about time),” gorse no.8 (Dublin: Gorse, March 2017), pp. 105–128
2017 “A Love Letter to a Klepto,” Hotel 2 (London: Hotel, 2017), pp. 57–66
2016 “The Peach Slip,” in Transition Transformation Transience, edited by Marta Michalowska (London: Wapping Project Commissions, September 2016), pp.16–23
2016 “Autobiographical Bodies,” Cabinet 58, Spring/Summer 2016, pp. 56–62
2015 “scrolling the banal babe, in the work of Clunie Reid,” Photoworks Annual Issue 22: Women, 2015, pp. 98–107
2015 “To Ann, Finally: barf, body and writing,” gorse no.4 (Dublin: Gorse, September 2015), pp. 113–126.
Recent exhibition/book reviews (selected print/online publications):
2019 “VALIE EXPORT’s Transgressive Show for the 1980 Venice Biennale Reappears in London,” frieze.com, 23 May 2019
2017 “Kate Zambreno: Book of Mutter,” Art Monthly, October 2017
2017 “56 Artillery Lane,” frieze, September 2017
2016 “Dóra Maurer, 6 out of 5,” frieze, June 2016
2015 “The boys the girls and the political,” frieze, October 2015
Further essays and reviews published in frieze available here.
OTHER RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
Conferences, events series, and session panels programmed and convened
2025 “Gestures: A body of work—book launch,” Royal College of Art, 3 April 2025
2024 “Art and the Critical Medical Humanities: Confabulations X Health and Care at the RCA,” Health and Care Research Cluster / Royal College of Art, 19–21 June 2024, in collaboration with Queen’s University, Canada, and the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University
2022 “Together, With, To: A Workshop on Correspondence and Letters,” Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 16–17 June 2022
2022 “‘What a hazard a letter is’: Correspondence in Feminist Art, Art Writing, and Art History,” Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, December 2021–June 2022
2021 “Sick Women: The Chronic-poetics of Feminist Art History,” College Art Association Annual Conference, 10–13 February 2021 [co-convened with Gemma Blackshaw, RCA]
2019 “Stealing Desire,” Freud Museum London, April–July 2019
2019 “Gestures: writing that moves between,” Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, and HOME, 15–16 February 2019
Conference papers and invited lectures/workshops
2025 “Perversions at her adolescent fingertips, or, Francesca Woodman’s autoerotic attentions: an essay-caress,” Gestures: A body of work—book launch, Royal College of Art, invited symposium paper, 3 April 2025
2024 “Flight as Method: A Sick Women Exchange,” Art and the Critical Medical Humanities: Confabulations X Health & Care at the RCA, Royal College of Art, invited conference paper, 19 June 2024
2024 “Scrappy, Witchy, Social, Sick, Submerged: Cookie Mueller’s Enchanted Close Writing,” In Conversation: Cultures of Enchantment, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, invited panel presentation, 9 May 2024
2023 “Sick Women: correspondences and performances,” School of Arts and Humanities Insights Forum, Royal College of Art, invited presentation, 19 July 2023
2022 “Writing Beside, Outside and Inside: The Reparative Desire of Cookie Mueller’s Crochet Gloves,” paper on panel “Forms of ‘Outside’ in Art Writing,” Experimental Writing in English (1945-2000): The Anti-Canon, Palace of the Academies, Brussels, 15-16 September 2022
2022 With Gemma Blackshaw, “To Reply, To Risk, To Resemble: Bessie Bruce and Cookie Mueller,” Together, With, To: A Workshop on Correspondence and Letters, The Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, invited performance presentation, 17 June 2022
2022 “The Pieces of Cookie Mueller’s Adolescent Reverie (pieces in loving reply),” Queer Afterlives in Artist Archives, University of Pittsburgh/Mattress Factory, invited symposium presentation, 15 April 2022
2021 “Around Valentine’s Day, 1980: Kathy Acker and Cookie Mueller’s Lovesick Letter-pieces,” “‘What a hazard a letter is’: Correspondence in Feminist Art, Art Writing, and Art History, The Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, invited lecture, 9 December 2021
2021 “‘How close can we get to someone? Will we become each other?’ Epistolary Subjects, Objects, and Methods in Feminist Art, Art Writing, and Art History,” “‘What a hazard a letter is’: Correspondence in Feminist Art, Art Writing, and Art History, The Centre for American Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, invited writing workshop, 9 December 2021
2021 With Gemma Blackshaw, “Correspondence as Care: Writing to Bessie and Cookie,” Confabulations: art practice, art history, critical medical humanities, Durham University, invited keynote talk, 6 October 2021
2021 With Gemma Blackshaw, “Sick Women: The Chronic-poetics of Feminist Art History,” SoAH Research Platform, Royal College of Art, invited presentation, 8 June 2021
2021 “Have you tried it with three? Have you?’: Love Triangles and Feminist Art Writing,” Association for Art History Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, conference paper, 14-17 April 2021
2021 With Gemma Blackshaw, “Sick Women: The Chronic-poetics of Feminist Art History, An Epistolary Introduction,” College Art Association Annual Conference, conference presentation, 10-13 February 2021
2019 “Looking and Touching, Desire, Closely,” To Write Art, University of Copenhagen, conference paper, 14-15 November 2019
2019 “Dear Cookie: A Letter to Your Adolescent Reverie,” Modern Language Association International Symposium, Lisbon, conference paper, 23-25 July 2019
2019 “Close Writing in Three Acts,” Afterlife of the Object Summer School, University of Copenhagen, conference paper, 18-22 June 2019
2019 “Touching Desire,” Gestures: writing that moves between, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester and HOME, conference paper, 15-16 February 2019
2018 “‘Have you tried it with three? Have you?’: A Love Triangle with Ann Quin,” Critical Reinventions, University of East Anglia, conference paper, 12 May 2018
2018 “Kathy Acker’s Close-conceptual-writing,” College Art Association Annual Conference, LA Convention Center, Los Angeles, conference paper, 21-24 February 2018
2017 “Cookie Mueller’s Adolescent Fragments,” University of Manchester, invited talk, 6 December 2017
2017 “‘just a diary. to yourself. for no one’: Getting Closer to Kathy Acker and her Diary Desire,” Speak, body: Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life, University of Leeds, conference paper, 21-23 April 2017
2017 “Writing at Large,” Royal College of Art, February 2017 (roundtable discussion)
2016 “Last Letters and Love Letters: Getting Closer to Cookie Mueller,” New York University, invited public lecture, 7 November 2016
2016 “Fan Letters of Love,” Feminist Readings 2, University of Leeds, conference paper, 15-16 April 2016
2016 “Barf! From Weakness to Writing,” Unmentionables: Conversations about the Obscene, University of Manchester, February 2016
Recent public engagement, collaborations, and creative projects
2024 For Tish: a screening and residency-in-response, Stroud Film Festival, Stroud Valleys Artspace, 9 March 2024, co-curated with artists Hatty Frances Bell, Anna Gormley, and Kelly O’Brien
2023 Local/Global Communities of Care: Films, Words, and Conversations, Stroud Film Festival, Stroud Valleys Artspace, 9 March 2023, co-curated with filmmaker Hatty Frances Bell
2022 With Gemma Blackshaw, Fatema Abdoolcarim, and Allison Morehead, Sick Women—Looking After: Conversations on Art and Healing, The Brooklyn Rail, online panel event, 1 December 2022
2021 ON FIGURE(S) book launch reading, Drawing Room, London, 14 October 2021
2017 On Cookie Mueller, Studio Voltaire, London, 2 November 2017
2015 Fan Letters of Love, Whitstable Biennale, June 2016
2015 Barf Talk, Old Fire Station, Oxford, February 2016
2015 What Will They See of Me? conference reading and conversation, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, May 2015
2015 Jerwood Visual Arts Writers’ Residency, spring 2015