Single-Authored Books

– Islands in Modern and Contemporary Art (Reaktion Books, September, 2024).
– Playing at Home: The House in Contemporary Art (Reaktion Books, 2013).
– Spectacular Flirtations: Viewing the Actress in British Art 1768-1820 (Yale University Press, 2007), shortlisted for the Theatre Book Prize, 2008.
– Women Artists and the Parisian Avant-Garde: Modernism and ‘Feminine’ Art 1900 to the late 1920s (Manchester University Press, 1995).
– Paula Modersohn-Becker: Her Life and Work (The Women’s Press, 1979 and Harper and Row, 1980).
   – (Translated as) Paula Modersohn-Becker: Hennes liv och verk, Bokförlaget Trevi – Stockholm 1980 (translated by Kerstin Karling).
   – (Translated as) Paula Modersohn-Becker: leven en werk, Feministische Uitgeverij Sara, Amsterdam, 1979 (translated by Rita Meyer).

Edited and Co-Authored Books

– Leon Golub: Powerplay – The Political Portraits, co-author with Jon Bird; ‘In Your Face: Immediacy, Masculinity and Skin’ (Reaktion Books, 2016) 30% authored, pp. 34-53.
– Placing Faces: The Portrait and the English Country House in the Long Eighteenth Century, co-ed and co-author, (Manchester University Press, 2013).
– The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons, ed., and co-author (70%), catalogue for exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery London, 2011-12 (NPG and University of Michigan Press), pp. 10-61, 78-102, 122-137
– Themes in Contemporary Art, co-ed. and co-author, including chapter 6, ‘Dream Houses: Installations and the Home’ (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 230-275.
– Difference and Excess in Contemporary Art: The Visibility of Women’s Practice, ed and co-author, Special Issue of Art History 2002 and Blackwells, 2003 (best-selling special issue).
– Women, Scholarship and Criticism: Gender and Knowledge c.1790-1900, co-ed. and co-author (Manchester University Press, 2001), pp. 1-15, 16-41.
– Gender and Art, ed. and co-author – 30% authored, (Yale University Press, 1999).
– Academies, Museums and Canons of Art, ed., and co-author (Yale University Press,1999)
– Femininity and Masculinity in Eighteenth Century Art and Culture, ed. and co-author, (Manchester University Press, 1994), pp. 1-17, 124-168.
– Primitivism, Cubism and Abstraction, co-author with Charles Harrison and Francis Frascina (Yale University Press, 1993) (30% authored), pp. 2-85. Translated into Spanish and Portuguese.

Exhibition Catalogues/Catalogue Essays

– ‘Home Making’ in Antonia Dewhurst: Gimme Shelter, Ruthin Craft Centre, 2023, pp. 1-10.
– ‘Traces of Home and Changes of Skin’, in Women House (Monnaie de Paris and National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, 2017), pp. 28-34.
– Drawn-Out Games’ in Deanna Petherbridge: Drawing and Dialogue, Manchester Whitworth Gallery and Circa Press, 2016, pp. 30-40.
– The First Actresses: Nell Gwyn to Sarah Siddons, curated exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery London, 2011-12.
– Crystal World, catalogue essay for exhibition including the work of Ackroyd and Harvey and Hubert Duprat (The Royal Society, London, 2011).
-‘Venetian Dreams and “Surrounding Stories”’, Alice Maher’s Dream of St Ursula in in the Oratorio San Lodovigo, Venice, catalogue essay Nuovaicona, Venice, 2006.
-‘Performing Slowly: the work of Anja Shrey’, catalogue essay for Anja Shrey, Milton Keynes Gallery, 2006.

Selected Articles and Book Chapters

– ‘Bad Girls, Hut Myths and Tracey Emin’s ‘Property by the Sea’ in eds D. Cherry and A Kokoli, Tracey Emin: Art into Life ( I.B.Tauris, 2020), pp. 132-146.
– ‘Broken Homes and Haunted Houses’ in Art and Dance in Dialogue: Body, Space, Object, eds Marie-Louise Crawley and Imogen Ratz (Routledge, 2020), pp. 224-240.
– ‘Witches, Housewives and Mothers: Crossing (Irish) Borders in the Body Politic’, in Elliptical Affinities, ed., Fionna Barber (Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, 2019), pp. 18-25.
– ‘Artists, Institutions and the Global Contemporary’ in After Empire: Modernity to Globalisation, ed. Warren Carter (Manchester University Press, 2018), pp. 99-133.
– ‘Landscaping Islands: Alex Hartley’s Nowhereisland and Floating Histories in Contemporary British Art’, in British Art Journal, Vol.10, Landscape Now 2018:
https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-10/landscaping-islands
– ‘Les cabanes d’Agnes’, in Agnes Varda Unlimited: Image, Music, Media, ed. Marie Claire Barnet (Legenda, 2017), pp. 157-170.
– ‘A lady on the stage and an actress off it’: Performance and femininity in images of Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby. In: Lloyd, Stephen ed. Art, Animals and Politics: Knowsley and the Earls of Derby. (London: Unicorn Press, 2015), pp. 61–80.
– ‘Border Crossings: Installations and Travelling Artists’, in eds, Steve Edwards and Paul Wood, Modernity to Globalisation (Tate Publishing, 2013), pp. 248-294.
– ‘Portraiture and Celebrity in Eighteenth Century Art: The Actress as a Work of Art’, in J Paparo (ed.) (2011) Portrait, Vancouver Art Gallery, Library of Water’, long review Art History, Vol 32.1, 2009, pp. 177-185.
– ‘Playing with Paint in Matisse’s Pink Onions’, in D Aagesen (ed.) (2006) Matisse in the Collection of the Statens Museum for Kunst, Staatens Museum, Copenhagen.
– ‘The Expanding Field: Ana Mendieta’s Silueta series’, in Frameworks for Modern Art, ed. Jason Gaiger (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 152-205
– ‘Gender and the Fauves: Flirting with Wild Beasts’ in Art of the Avant-Gardes, ed. (Yale University Press, 2004)
– ‘Staging Gender and “Hairy Signs”: Representing Dorothy Jordan’s Curls’, Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol 38(1), 2004, pp. 145-165.
– ‘Ambiguity and Desire in late Eighteenth Century Portraits of the Actress’ in R. Asleson (ed) Notorious Muse: The Actress in British Culture 1776-1812, (Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 57-80.
– ‘The Spectacle of the Muse: Exhibiting the Actress in the Royal Academy’ in Art on the Line: The Royal Academy Exhibitions at Somerset House, ed. David Solkin, (Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press, 2002), pp. 111-126.