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Susannah Lyon-Whaley is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of York (since July 2024) and previously served as a Professional Teaching Fellow at Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland). She holds a Master's in English Literature and a PhD in Art History from the University of Auckland (2019 and 2023 respectively), supported by a University Doctoral Scholarship. Her research focuses on women’s engagement with nature across art, literature, and material culture in global and colonial contexts.
Her current project, Observing, Consuming, Engaging, Appropriating Nature (OCEAN), examines 17th-century British queens consort’s interactions with nature through cabinets, miniatures, and materials from global regions. She has published on Aotearoa New Zealand poets Robin Hyde and Mary Stanley, artist Rita Angus, and Stuart-era queens’ artistic patronage and spa visits. She edited Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts (2024).
External activities include hosting The Royal Studies Podcast and co-organizing the Women and Flowers Research Network. She holds the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellowship and University Doctoral Scholarship.
