Dr Anna Reid

Profile

I am Lecturer in the History of Art in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. 

I am an environmental humanities scholar and art historian with a focus on 19th and 20th century local and global British contexts. My research, currently focused on landscape and surrealism, is engaged with ecocriticism; the relationship between the ecological and the colonial; plant humanities; animal studies; extinction studies; the interplay between art and science and the politics of aesthetics. 

I am currently a Cambridge Visual Culture visiting fellow, working with Kettles Yard and on the landscape and surrealist aspects of Jim Ede’s modernist collections. 
From 2020-21 I was a research fellow with Art Hx: Visual and Medical Legacies of British Colonialism, a digital humanities project led by Dr Anna Kesson, Princeton University. https://artandcolonialmedicine.com/

From 2020-21 I acted as Head of Research and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre, Yale University, where I devised projects such as  British Art and Natural Forces: A State of the Field Research Programme https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/british-art-and-natural-forces-recordings and British Art Talks https://www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/podcast

Responsibilities

• Module leader Art, Ecology, Empire

Research interests

I am currently writing a catalogue essay for the upcoming exhibtition Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes https://hepworthwakefield.org/whats-on/forbidden-territories-100-years-of-surreal-landscapes/

I am contributing a chapter to the upcoming volume Surrealism and Ecology with a focus on the ecocritical potential of surrealist mode in the work of artist Lucy Skaer. 

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

• PhD
• MA
• BA (Hons)

Student education

I am leading modules that examine the relationship between landscape, ecology and empire in local and global British contexts. My teaching also explores the expansion of art history as a vital ecocritical discipline and as part of an interdisciplinary environmental humanities. 

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>