University of Huddersfield

Research Assistant, Art, Design and Architecture

Other Affiliations: University of Glasgow, History of Art
The Glasgow School of Art, Forum for Critical Inquiry

Research Assistant

School of Art, Design and Architecture

Thesis Title: Dorothea Tanning and Visual Intertextuality

About

Catriona McAra is a Research Assistant in Cultural Theory in the School of Art, Design and Architecture at the University of Huddersfield. She recently submitted her AHRC funded doctoral thesis, entitled ‘“Some Parallels in Words and Pictures”: Dorothea Tanning and Visual Intertextuality’, in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow where she also worked as a teaching assistant (2009-11). In 2011 she was a visiting lecturer at the Forum for Critical Inquiry, Glasgow School of Art, supervising a variety of final year undergraduate dissertation projects. Catriona holds a first class honours degree (2007) and masters with distinction (2008) both in History of Art at the University of Glasgow, and a PG Cert in Academic Teaching Practice. She has been invited to chair research forums and has presented papers on topics such as epistemophilia, femmes-enfants and the motif of the child, in works by Leonora Carrington, Lewis Carroll, Angela Carter, Joseph Cornell and Dorothea Tanning, at a number of national and international venues including Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, Universität Leipzig and Université d'Angers.

Catriona has worked as a gallery assistant in many Scottish art institutions including Stills Gallery Ltd., The Fruitmarket Gallery, Inverleith House, Centre for Contemporary Arts, and Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. She currently works with emerging and established artists Tessa Farmer, Nikos Mantzios, Robert Powell and the Scottish photographer Alicia Bruce, writing interpretation texts for exhibitions and/or providing curatorial advice.

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