Rate My Professor Vanessa Galvin

Dr Vanessa Galvin serves as Senior Lecturer in the School of Design and the Built Environment within the Faculty of Humanities at Curtin University. She holds the role of Course Coordinator for Course Management in interior architecture programs. Galvin completed her Doctor of Philosophy in the History of Architecture at The University of Western Australia in 2019. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled 'The Soul-Crafted Interior: Governing the Domestic Inhabitant in Victorian Britain and America 1855-1885,' examines the domestic inhabitant's self-formative engagement with interior spaces under the guidance of spiritual authorities during the Victorian period. This work highlights her focus on how interiors shaped personal and moral development in nineteenth-century Britain and America.

Galvin's research specializations encompass interior design history, design subjectivity, Victorian spiritualism in domestic settings, grief and spiritual comfort through home objects, and post-domestic habitats including transhuman and posthuman perspectives. Key publications include 'A Spirited Way to a Rational Home: Cultivating Normativity through the Victorian Spiritualist Interior' in the Journal of Design History (2025), which explores normativity in spiritualist homes; 'Tempering Grief through the Victorian Home’s Furniture and Objects: The Emergence of Spiritual Comfort' (2022); 'Rewiring the Domestic Subject' in PAD #25 – POST-DOMESTIC HABITAT (2023), offering a spatial-philosophical reading of domestic interiors through posthuman subjectivity; 'Seeing the Unseen: This is Not an Interior' in the book Occupation: Ruin, Repudiation, Revolution (2016); and 'Architectural Exploration of Art Concepts' in The International Journal of the Image (2011). She teaches interior architecture at Curtin University, where she has noted that interior designers create habitable environments that evoke specific experiences. Galvin contributes to academic events, including the curation involvement in the '20|30: Curtin University Fashion & Interior Architecture Alumni Retrospective.' Her work appears on Google Scholar with verified affiliation at Curtin University.