Anna is an art historian focusing on British visual and material culture c.1600-1900. She is particularly interested in how people have ’thought with things’ through material, sensory and embodied experiences. Anna is recognised as an expert in the cultural history of Shakespeare for her interdisciplinary material culture centered approach to the subject.

Recent and forthcoming publications address histories of gender, consumption, and intermediality. Anna’s current research interests lie in Shakespeare and time, as well as the material histories of wood. She is presently working on her first monograph which examines how Shakespearean objects permeated everyday life in the eighteenth century informing contemporary social identities as the playwright became the English national poet.

Her work has been support by grants and fellowships spanning a range of funding bodies including The British Shakespeare Association, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies on British Art, The Lewis Walpole Library (Yale), and Edinburgh College of Art.

Anna is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE. Her cross-disciplinary research—spanning art history, English literature, theatre studies and environmental humanities—informs her object-led, research-informed teaching.