Public Engagement: Editing, Curating & Programming
Forms, Voices, Networks: Feminism and the Media
(German Historical Institute London)
I led the curation of an exhibition on the relationship between the media and 20th century women’s activist movements in an international context. Featuring contributions from a range of scholars, activists and artists, the exhibition presented a series of snapshot stories to illustrate how feminists have mobilised media in feminist and anti-colonial campaigns at different moments. Though initially planned as an in-person, touring show (London, Berlin & New Delhi), the project was moved online due to Covid-19. I wrote about the process in an article in a special issue of Women’s History Review.
The website was designed and developed by the design agency Eight Arms. The collage illustrations are by Michelle Thompson, and page illustrations by Harriet Hatwell and Jenny Hersh.
Imagining Posthuman Care
University of Leeds
As Postdoctoral Research and Engagement fellow on Prof Amelia DeFalco’s AHRC project Imagining Posthuman Care, I worked on the research and design of an interactive exhibition at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds and associated programming. The project explored how the meaning and significance of ‘care’ is changing in light of new technologies, and critical engagements with animality, vulnerability and the posthuman.
‘Can Robots Care?’ exhibition at the Thackray Museum of Medicine in Leeds. Photo by David Lindsay.
The robot' ‘Pepper’ at the launch of ‘Can Robots Care'?’. Photograph by David Lindsay
Past Projects: Editing & Programming
I also have substantial experience as a Digital Editor in arts institutions. This has included commissioning, copy-editing and proofreading content for online publication as well as managing social media channels.
After working full-time at arts organisations including the ICA, I continued to deliver freelance projects for arts and heritage organisations while completing my PhD in literature. This included programming and co-ordinating events at organisations including the Migration Museum (‘Queer Migrations’) and at the Durban Holocaust and Genocide Centre, where I worked during my PhD (part of with Prof. Stuart Taberner’s projects ‘Traumatic Pasts, Cosmopolitanism, and Nation-Building in Contemporary German and South African Literature’ and ‘Mobilising Multidirectional Memory to Build More Resilient Communities).
I have also worked as a freelance reader (assessing submissions and/or prize entries) for literary magazines, including Granta and Wasafiri. I was Associate Editor at parallax journal August 2020-October 2021. I am currently Associate Editor at Wasafiri.
Queer Migrations event at the Migration Museum in London. Photo by: Elzbieta Piekacz