I teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I am the coordinator and contributor to the Broad Curriculum module 'Making and Meaning in Irish Art' which is available to all TCD undergraduates and visiting students. I lecture on subjects including Irish art from the 1800s, the Italian Renaissance c.1300-1550, Northern European Art c.1400-1700 and Modernism and contemporary art, with a particular focus on gender issues, artistic processes and techniques. I specialise in the history of the printed image including printmaking as a creative process, the development of fine art print theory, the social, cultural and political agency of printed images, artists and illustration, and the print market.

My research examines the history, contexts and theories of the printed image in Britain and Ireland from the beginnings of modernist fine art printmaking in the 1850s to contemporary multidisciplinary print practices. Currently, my focus is on Irish artists, including Jack Yeats, Harry Clarke, Beatrice Elvery, Robert Gibbings and Harry Kernoff and their involvement in illustration, the private press movement and limited edition fine art publishing c.1830 to 1960.