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I teach modern art and visual culture for both the first year course (Prelims) and papers taken in subsequent years.  At graduate level, I teach a course on the interaction between modernism and mass culture from the later 19th century to the present.  In all my teaching I encourage students to engage as closely as possible with actual works of art, regularly leading visits to collections in Oxford and beyond.  I welcome student interest in a wide range of media, from painting and sculpture to contemporary video and installation art.

My research focuses primarily on European modernisms.  My first book, , was published by Princeton University Press in 2004, and recently I curated an exhibition of Paul Gauguin’s prints at the Princeton University Art Museum.  The accompanying catalogue, , examined the role played by reproduction in Gauguin’s understanding of French colonialism in Tahiti.  I have published essays in the Oxford Art Journal, Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Artforum International, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and in various edited volumes.

I am currently pursuing two new projects.  In the first I explore the question of artistic belatedness in French art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a particular emphasis on the work of the Neo-Impressionists.  The second is a study of the politics of embodied spectatorship in the work of the 19th-century British painter Ford Madox Brown.

Publications

My recent publications include:

• ‘On the Origins of Abstraction: Seurat and the Screening of History,’ forthcoming in Art History.
• ‘Fallen Vision: Gauguin in Polynesia,’ in Paul Gauguin, exh. cat. (Basel: Fondation Beyeler, 2015), 167-79.
• ‘Gauguin and the Dream of the Exotic,’ in Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection, exh. cat. (Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology/Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014), 186-97.
  
• ‘Search for Paradise: The Prints of Paul Gauguin,’ in The Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec: Drawings and Prints from the Clark, exh. cat. (New York: The Frick Collection, 2013), 84-99.
• ‘Blinded by the Light,’ in Matisse: In Search of True Painting, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art/Copenhagen: Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, 2012).
• ‘Matisse dans l’atelier: la dialectique de l’espace’ and ‘Le peinture schizophrène et l’intensification du regard,’ in Matisse Paires/Impaires, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2012), 29-34 and 63-68.
• ‘Art History Reviewed XII: T.J. Clark’s ‘Image of the People: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 Revolution’, 1973,’ The Burlington Magazine 153, no. 1298 (May 2011): 330-34.
• ‘Paradise Lost: Gauguin and the Melancholy Logic of Reproduction,’ in Calvin Brown and Alastair Wright, Paradise Remembered: Gauguin’s Noa Noa Suite, exh. cat. (Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2010), 49-99.
• ‘Paradise Lost,’ Artforum International 49, no. 1 (Sept. 2010): 174-76.
• ‘Mourning, Painting, and the Commune: Maximilien Luce’s A Paris Street in 1871,’ Oxford Art Journal 32, no. 2 (2009).
• ‘Thoughts on Difference in India and Elsewhere,’ Art Bulletin 110, no. 4 (Dec. 2008): 548-54.