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Before joining the University of Gloucestershire, I was an Associate Lecturer at the University of Derby (2022–23) and a Lecturer at De Montfort University (2023–24) and at the University of Liverpool (2024–25).
My research examines visual and material practices in the Soviet Union, with a particular focus on photography and amateur image making. My PhD explored interwar snapshot photograph albums as tools of self-fashioning in the early Soviet period. I have also contributed a chapter on amateur visual practices in the interwar Soviet Union to the edited collection Where Words and Images Meet, published in 2024.
Durham Leverhulme Doctoral Scholarship in Visual Culture
I teach modern Russian and Soviet history, with a focus on the political and social transformations of the revolutionary and Soviet periods, and how these were experienced and represented. My teaching is informed by my research in visual culture, drawing on a wide range of visual and textual sources. I also contribute to modules in modern European history and research skills.
As a researcher, I approach visual material as an historical source. I am interested in how people engaged with Soviet ideas and practices, and explore how citizens used visual technologies to mediate, represent, and make sense of their experience of a rapidly changing world, thereby actively shaping Soviet culture through participation.
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