Morna O'Neill received her PhD from Yale University and teaches courses in eighteenth and nineteenth-century European art and the history of photography at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Her research addresses the conjunction of art, design, and politics in European art at the end of the nineteenth century. She was curator of the exhibition 'Art and Labour's Cause is One:' Walter Crane and Manchester, 1880-1915 (Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, August 2008-June 2009) and author of the exhibition catalogue (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2008). Her monograph on Walter Crane won the Historians of British Art book prize for best book on a topic after 1800.