Dr Frances Varley (she/her) is an Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art. Her research interests include histories of museums and collecting in Britain, Europe, and the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as materiality, archives, regions and peripheries, and transatlantic art histories. At The Courtauld, she teaches modules on nineteenth-century British and American art. Frances has participated in conferences organised by the Association for Art History, Tate Britain, The Courtauld, and Yale University, and has lectured at the National Gallery, London.
Frances was awarded her PhD by The Courtauld in 2024. The project was entitled Collecting and Identity in Manchester and Philadelphia, c.1870-1914 and was supervised by Professor David Peters Corbett. She completed her MA in the History of Art at The Courtauld in 2019, and her BA in History at Somerville College, University of Oxford in 2017.
