Catriona McAra

‘Ghosts in the Text: Alison Watt and the Literary Marvellous’ in Scottish Society for Art History Journal (Autumn 2025): 84-92.

‘”Kept”: An Interview with Sam Ainsley About Collage’ in International Journal of Surrealism (Autumn 2025): 127-137.

‘Notes on a Scottish Feminist Aesthetic’ in Irish Pages, edited by Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson (April 2025): 117-123.

‘Leonora Carrington: Wild Card’ in The Space Between, volume 14 (2018).

‘Leonora Carrington and Children’s Literature’ in Gramarye: Journal of the Sussex Centre for Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fantasy, issue 12 (Winter 2017): 35-45.

‘Hope Chest: Demythologizing Girlhood in Kate Bernheimer’s Trilogy’ in Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, volume 10, number 3 (Winter 2017): 168-183.

‘Witch Milk: Samantha Sweeting’s Lactation Narratives’ in ASAP Journal (May 2016): 261-285.

‘Surrealism’s Curiosity: Lewis Carroll and the Femme-Enfant’ in Papers of Surrealism, issue 9 (Summer 2011).

Book Chapters

‘“Arty Art”: Ali Smith and Art History’ in The Routledge Companion to Ali Smith, edited by Eleanor Byrne and Alex John Calder (New York: Routledge). Forthcoming.

‘A Green Conscience: Leonora Carrington and the Group of 100’ in Leonora Carrington and Surrealism’s Politics of Invention, edited by K. Noheden and A. Watz (Manchester University Press). Forthcoming.

‘Curating Aggregate: Industrial Archaeologies of Fritha Jenkins and Edna Lumb’ in The Routledge Companion to Heritage and Gender, edited by Jenna Ashton (New York: Routledge, 2025), 185-198.

‘A Feminist-Surrealist Metamorphosis: The Charged Objects of Kim L. Pace’ in Surrealism and Animation, edited by Abigail Susik (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), 251-266.

‘Feminist-Surrealism in the Contemporary Novel’ in A History of the Surrealist Novel, edited by Anna Watz (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 348-363.

With Jonathan P. Eburne, ‘Radical Muses’ in The Routledge Companion to Surrealism (New York: Routledge, 2022), 358-366.

‘Open Sesame: Dorothea Tanning’s Critical Writing’ in Surrealist Women’s Writing: A Critical Exploration, edited by Anna Watz (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2021), 210-224.

‘Kate MccGwire: Boundary Creatures’ in Kate MccGwire (London: Anomie Publishing, 2021), 79-85.

‘A Feminist Marvellous: Chloe Aridjis and the Female Human Animal’ in Leonora Carrington: Living Legacies, edited by A. Cox, J. Hewison, M. Man and R. Shannon (Delaware: Vernon Press, 2020), 1-18.

‘A Nonagenarian Virago: Quoting Carrington in Contemporary Practice’ in Leonora Carrington and the International Avant-Garde, edited by J. P. Eburne and C. McAra (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 178-197.

‘Emma’s Navel: Dorothea Tanning’s Narrative Sculpture’ in Intersections: Women/Surrealism/Modernism, edited by Patricia Allmer (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016), 91-111.