I studied for my BA at Royal Holloway, for my MA at the University of Sussex and returned to Royal Holloway for my PhD. My thesis on Marcel Duchamp offers an account of the decline of European easel painting through the lens of the decline of traditional metaphysics.
My research is focussed mainly on modernist visual art and literature, with a particular interest in lyrical and idiomatic forms of expression. I am co-editor of the Open Library of Humanities Special Collection, 'The Working-Class Avant-Garde'. I also have an interest in public health policy and worked as a researcher on Lord Norman Fowler’s book Aids: Don’t Die of Prejudice (published by Biteback in 2014).
I currently teach in the Media Arts Department at Royal Holloway, University of London, convening courses on film history and the modernist avant-garde. I am also a director of the Peckham Pelican, a South East London project space which hosts a variety of interdisciplinary and cross-media events and exhibitions, providing a platform for local artists, activists and entrepreneurs.
Experience
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2023–presentSenior Teaching Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London
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2016–2023Teaching Fellow, Royal Holloway, University of London
Education
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2015Royal Holloway, PhD
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2008University of Sussex , MA
Publications
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2020Black Country Dionysus - Archie Hill and A Cage of Shadows, Open Library of Humanities Special Collection: The Working-Class Avant-Garde
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2020"Party Girl", Lost and Found, Sight and Sound
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2012“But the Image Wants Danger”: Georges Bataille, Werner Herzog, and Poetical Response to Paleoart, Time and Mind, The Journal of Archaeology, Consciousness and Culture
Grants and Contracts
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2008Reid Scholarship
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- Royal Holloway
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2007Research Preparation Master's Scheme
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- Arts and Humanities Research Council
Professional Memberships
- Associate Fellow Higher Education Academy
- London
- Website
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- nick.lee@rhul.ac.uk
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