Catriona’s teaching is directly influenced by her research and introduces students to key issues in the relationships between art, politics and society in sixteenth-, seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.
Her third-year special options course, Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts, explores the visual representation of power through close study of royal portraiture, decorative schemes, public statuary, printed ephemera and court spectacle.
Her fourth-year special options course, Cradle to Grave: Art and Society in Britain from Holbein to Hogarth, examines the representation of gender, the life cycle, religion, status and nationality across a range of media, assessing how early modern men and women defined their social relationships and fashioned their identities.
She also lectures on Northern Renaissance and Baroque art for History of Art 1 and contributes to the department’s team-taught MSc courses.