Eszter's research lies at the intersection of art history and animal studies, and focusses on the representation of politicised relationships of care between human and other-than-human animals in contemporary art. Her PhD thesis, titled Strangers of Kindness: Defamiliarising Multispecies Care Relations in Contemporary Art, looks at the emergence of multispecies care at sites of labour.

She is an active member and previous Postgraduate Convenor of the cross-disciplinary Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Research Network and the EEHN PhD Lab. As a member of the Lab, she has worked on successful grant applications, helped deliver training as part of the SGSAH's Cohort Development initiative and organised multi-day interdisciplinary research events. In 2024, she was a co-organiser of the ASLE-UKI Biennial ECR Conference.

Alongside her doctoral studies, she is a member of the Ecologies of Care working group, supported by the Igor Zabel Association for Culture and Theory. In 2021/22, she was an assistant organiser of the Ecocritical Methods for Art History workshop series, convened by Prof Andrew Patrizio (University of Edinburgh) and Dr Olga Smith (University of Vienna). In 2022/23, she worked with Dr Sria Chatterjee and Dr Anisha Palat on the Paul Mellon Centre's Climate and Colonialism project.

Eszter has shared her work in the UK and internationally, both at academic conferences and as part of public-facing events. She holds a BA in History of Art and French from the University of Bristol and an MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute. In her spare time, she enjoys long distance trail running.

Recent conference appearances

‘More-than-human worlds on the move: reframing and exploring migration from a multispecies perspective in art’, Session co-convenor, Association for Art History Conference, York, 2025.

‘From Mobility to Monumentalisation: Tracing the Migration of the Greenland White-fronted Goose in Hannah Imlach's Skein Dial (2023)’, Paper delivered at the Association for Art History Conference, Bristol, 2024.

'Care as Control and Surrender: The Politics of Care Management and the Multispecies Landscape in Gerard Ortín's Wolf Urine (2017)', Paper delivered at the Association for Art History Conference, London, 2023.

'Zoogoers As Caregivers: Gender and Interspecies Care in Liesel Burisch's Gorilla Milk (2020)', Paper delivered at the ASLE + AESS Conference, Portland, OR, 2023.