Postgraduate research students

My research concerns the career, contemporary and posthumous reception of Chauveau, a long-neglected author, illustrator, painter, sculptor, and sketcher who in 2020 was the subject of the major exhibition 'Au pays des monstres' [In the land of monsters] at the Musée d'Orsay. Working in collaboration with multiple cultural organisations and with the exhibition donor, the artist's grandson and archivist Marc Chauveau, I apply sociological concepts including neurodiversity and intersectionality to Chauveau's exploration of difference and depiction of himself finding refuge from social alienation within a community of 'companions', sympathetic 'monsters' he created. My thesis also refers to interviews with prestigious artists commissioned for the exhibition, and with artists who responded to a talk I delivered at Glasgow disability arts charity Project Ability, drawing on commonalities between the two groups to comment on wider challenges around inclusivity in the cultural sector.

• Professor Stephen Forcer
• Dr Amy Johnstone
• Dr Rachel Douglas

Fellowships:

2024 tuition-free CIVIS course 'Shifting Societies, Changing Museums', Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, https://civis.eu/en/learn/civis-courses/shifting-societies-changing-museumsbhttps://civis.eu/en/learn/civis-courses/shifting-societies-changing-museums

2023 Institut Giacometti Residency, https://www.fondation-giacometti.fr/en/article/489/Nat-Paterson

2021 'Traduire l'histoire de l'art' funded workshop

Financial awards:

2024 University of Glasgow Chancellor's Fund Scholarship for CIVIS travel

2023 Art in Translation Student Prize

2023 Beatrix Whistler and James Abbott McNeil Whistler Travel Scholarship

2020 Allen Inglis Travel Scholarship

2019-21 Peter Davies MPhil Scholarship

2015-17 School of Literature, Drama, and Creative Writing Scholarship (UEA)

Paper at 'Critical Neurodiversity Studies: Directions/Intersections/Contradictions' conference (Durham University), 6/25

Paper at 'Counter-narratives' postgraduate conference (Glasgow), 6/25

Paper at 'War as Extreme Experience:Comprehension, Representation, and the Problem of Translation' roundtable (Kyiv-Motyla Academy), 4/25

Panel chair at Stirling Maxwell Centre roundtable, 11/24

Paper at 'Uncovering Histories and Subjectivities' seminar (Glasgow), 11/24

Paper at 'Histoires oubliées' conference (Institut français d'Écosse), 11/24

Paper at Stirling Maxwell Centre roundtable, 5/23

Led Stirling Maxwell Centre seminar, 2/23

Paper at ‘Postcolonial faultlines’ online conference, 10/22

Talk at Project Ability, 5/22

Paper at ‘Heritage and cultures’ online conference, 5/20

Paper at ‘Fluidity’ online conference, 5/20

Paper at ‘Translation and multilingualism’ conference, Lancaster University, 5/16

Organisation committee, ‘Untranslatability’ conference, UEA, 10/15

Academic Background:

MPhil in French Studies, Glasgow, 2019-21

MA with Merit in Literary Translation, UEA, 2015-17

BA (1st Class Honours) in French Studies, with Distinction in Spoken Italian, Lancaster, 2010-14. Swiss Consul-General's Prize in French 2014. Excellence mention for work in my first year, which did not count towards my final result.

Memberships and affiliations:

Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities Doctoral Researcher Committee, EDI Subcommittee

Stirling Maxwell Centre

Glasgow Life Museums Access Panel