Alice Dodds

Alice Dodds is a PhD Candidate and Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art, specializing in ecocriticism of Modern British Art and the Arts and Crafts Movement. Her research focuses on women at the intersection of the Arts and Crafts Movement and British Modernism who engaged in environmental utopianism through craft, examining how utopia was pictured through craft's relationship to the natural world.

Her educational background includes:

• PhD in History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art (2023–)
• MA History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art (2022–2023), Dissertation: "Unfettered by the Earth's Seasons:" Women and Anti-Modern Time in the Book Works of Clare Leighton
• BA History of Art, Courtauld Institute of Art (2019–2022)

Alice's research interrogates how women contributed to conceptualizing utopia through craft's visual and material relationship to nature, highlighting how scholarship has overlooked environmental dimensions in both the Arts and Crafts Movement and women's utopian thought. Her work bridges historical analysis with contemporary ecological concerns, exploring how early 20th century artists conceptualized relationships between craft, nature, and utopian thinking.

Her publications demonstrate a strong focus on environmental approaches to art history, particularly examining intersections of women's creative practices with ecological thought across British Modernism, Arts and Crafts, and feminist perspectives. Her work consistently reveals how craft practices were used to envision alternative human-nature relationships.

Alice serves as Editor in Chief of Immediations, the Courtauld's journal of postgraduate research. Her teaching roles include Associate Lecturer for BA2 The Modern Interior (2025-26) and Teaching Assistant for BA1 Foundations (2024-25). Her PhD is funded by AHRC/CHASE, indicating recognition of her research significance.

Her conference presentations explore diverse aspects of women's environmental utopianism, including May Morris's visual archive of utopia, environmental cartography, Vanessa Bell's ecological dialogues with Virginia Woolf, and queer ecology within the Arts and Crafts Movement.