I am a lecturer in Film and Media at University College London working across the disciplines of Film Studies and Art History. My work explores the politics of making images in colour. Although I work on a range of media (painting, printing, photography, television), I specialise in film, with particular expertise in the global history of Technicolor. 

My award-winning first book The Rainbow’s Gravity (2023), considers how new colour media transformed the way Britain saw itself and its empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This interest in the colonial and post-colonial histories of colour also underpins the AHRC Bombay Film Colour Research Network, which I co-convene with Ranjani Mazumdar.

I received my PhD in 2018 from Yale University and was subsequently a Junior Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. I also spent time as a Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art New York, a Junior Research Fellow at The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and as a Henry Fellow at Yale University. My work has been recognised with a number of awards including: the British Association of Film, Television, and Screen Studies’ Best First Monograph Award, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Katherine Singer Kovàcs Essay Award, the Screen Biennial Prize, and Yale University’s Frances Blanshard Dissertation Prize. In 2024 I have been selected as an BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

My official UCL profile (and email address) is here

For non-Scottish readers, my first two names are (I am embarrassed to say) pronounced to rhyme with “thirsty sprinkler”.