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 Prof. Ranjani Mazumdar.

I received my PhD in History of Art with Film Studies in 2018 from Yale University and was subsequently a Junior Research Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. I previously spent time as a Museum Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and as a Junior Research Fellow at The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London. In 2024 I was selected as a BBC/AHRC New Generation Thinker.

For non-Scottish readers, my first two names are (I am embarrassed to say) pronounced to rhyme with “thirsty sprinkler”. My official UCL profile (and email address) is here.