Anna's research draws from art history, performance studies, and technology studies.
Doctoral Research
Barbara T. Smith: Performing the Network
Education
- PhD, History of Art · The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2026–2029. Fully funded by The Courtauld.
- MA, History of Art · The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2024–2025. Graduated with High Distinction and a Courtauld Award.
- BA, Philosophy and Theology · The University of Oxford, 2021–2024. Graduated with a First and a Gibbs Prize.
Selected Talks
- 2027 · The Association for Art History Annual Conference · The University of Exeter. [Upcoming] Paper entitled 'Meat in Barbara T. Smith's 'Mass Meal' (1969): pain, power, and the collective body'.
- 2026 · The Body in History Network · The University of Oxford. Paper entitled 'Barbara T. Smith’s I Am Abandoned (1976): embodiment in the imbrication of art with artificial intelligence'.
- 2025 · The International Network for Nineteen-Fifties Culture · The University of York & Lund University. Paper entitled 'Atomic anxiety as bodily vulnerability: the nuclear threat in the life and work of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985)'.
Selected Experience
- 2025 & 2026 · Events Assistant, Frieze London & Masters, London.
- 2024 · Exhibitor Assistant, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London.
- 2023–2024 · Gallery Director, Pembroke College Art Collection, Oxford.
- 2024 · Gallery Assistant, Guns & Rain, South Africa.
Research Interests
- Feminist performance art
- Histories and theories of computing
- Californian counterculture in the long 1970s
- Infrastructural and ecological approaches to art history