PhD, University College London
Originally from Chicago, Amy worked as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 2007 to 2013, in three departments (Asia; Word & Image; and Sculpture, Metalwork, Ceramics & Glass), undertaking a wide range of curatorial activities and working on both major exhibitions and capital projects. She left the Museum to devise and lead the semester course ‘Art Museums, Galleries & Curating’ at Sotheby’s Institute of Art before returning to the V&A in 2016 as Head of the Learning Academy where she led a team which delivered the adult learning program for the Museum, including courses, workshops, conferences, and professional development. Amy has been a Research Fellow at the Yale Center for British Art and delivered public lectures and conference papers on research topics such as performativity and spectatorship in museums and galleries. Amy currently leads the 19th century module of the ‘Stories of Art’ course at The National Gallery and her extensive undergraduate and postgraduate teaching experience includes University College London, Kingston University, the University of Warwick, Goldsmiths, the Royal College of Art, and Queen Mary (University of London). She is the author of chapters in books on subjects such as the female gaze and the female nude in 19th-century sculpture (Sculpture, Sexuality and History: Encounters in Literature, Culture and the Arts from the 18th century to the present, Palgrave, 2019). Amy has been Curatorial Lead for the Institute on the MA ‘Reimagining the Monument’ project for two years running, working most recently with artist, Clare Strand, which builds on her collaborations with established contemporary artists including Patricia Cronin, Felicity Powell, and Emma Cousin.
