​Democratizing Knowledge:
In Chambers's Encyclopaedia

This is a legacy website. A more recent profile is available at my BGU staff webpage

Between October 2014 and November 2018, I undertook a PhD at the University of Reading in collaboration with the National Museums Scotland.  I passed my viva voce on 22 November 2018. In 2020, I held a short-term fellowship at UCLA's Clark Library. I am now a part-time lecturer for the School of Humanities at Bishop Grosseteste University, as well as a part-time librarian.  I am currently working these long-term projects: Illustrating Animals in the 19th century: Popular Culture from Bewick to Beardsley and Photographic representations in printed media documenting America’s Occupation of the Philippines, 1900 - 1935. 

 

My recent article publications include: Illustrating Animals and Visualizing Natural History in Chambers’s Encyclopaedias, and a book chapter to the Edinburgh History of the British and Irish Press 1800-1900, edited by David Finkelstein, which was published by the University of Edinburgh Press in February 2020.  It was awarded the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize. In 2021, Circulation and Control: Artistic Culture and Intellectual Property in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Professor Will Slauter, from Université Paris Diderot and Professor Stéphanie Delamire, curator at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library was published by Open Book Publishers.  My chapter (and the whole book) is freely available online here.  I co-edited a book Women in Print, Design and Identities published in 2022, with Artemis Alexiou, of York St John University.   
 

I have been teaching history and archeology courses at BGU since 2020. In 2019, I taught a masters level course INFS 281-2 Research Methods in Graphics and Historical Illustration at the UCLA Department of Information Studies.  I have also taught undergraduates at UCLA during Winter Quarter 2018, and at the University of Reading, during Spring Semester 2017.