Sybilla Griffin holds a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of Cambridge. Her areas of interest include the overlap between the history of psychiatry and visual and material culture; the creative production and historiography of self-taught artists in Europe and the U.S.; and fashion history and theory. Prior to and throughout her master’s studies she has worked at contemporary art galleries in both London and New York.

Qualifying Paper: Loving Madly: Women and Erotic Pathology in Visual Culture, from Victorian Britain to Art Brut