People
Meet the academic, teaching and professional services staff, as well as PhD students, within the School of Art History.
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Prof Natalie Adamson
Deputy Head of School
Professor
The interpretation of abstract painting; Surrealism; problems in French painting and political ideology in the post-45 period; modernist photography.
Dr Rebecca Birrell
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Dr Francesca Borgo
Lecturer in Art History
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century European Visual Culture; War Studies; Leonardo Studies; Materials and Materiality
Mr Jamie Allan Brown
Research Fellow
Museums, Sustainability, Youth, Cultural Heritage, Europe-Latin America Relations, Europe-Caribbean Relations and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Prof Karen Brown
Professor
Museums and Heritage Studies relating to: Community, Sustainability, Cultural Memory, Europe-Latin America Relations
Dr Bruno Brulon Soares
Reader
Reader in Museum and Heritage Studies
Critical and social museology; museums' modern and contemporary history; colonial heritage; LGBTQ+ heritage and collections; Latin American museology and collecting practices.
Dr Edward Christie
Associate Lecturer in Art History (Modern and Contemporary Art)
Dr Kate Cowcher
Lecturer in Art History
Arts of Africa; modern and contemporary art; African cinema; Cold War cultures; colonial and post-colonial art collections in the UK.
Dr Ruth Ezra
Lecturer in Art History
material and visual culture of northern Europe, 1400-1750; sculptural aesthetics; printmaking; process; history of science; waste
Dr Miguel Gaete
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
Romanticism, 19th-century visual culture, depictions of slavery, nature, sciences and race, Latin America, Orientalism, colonialism
Dr Luke Gartlan
Senior Lecturer in Art History
Histories and theories of photography; Japanese modern art and visual practices; Orientalism and cross-cultural art; the art of the Habsburg Empire; and art, empire, and the global nineteenth century.
Dr Jessica Gerschultz
Lecturer in Contemporary Art History (Asia, the Middle East & North Africa)
Prof Linda Goddard
Director of Research
Professor
French art and literature of the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries; artists’ writings, especially life writing by women artists
Dr Bronwen Gulkis
Lecturer in Global Early Modern Art History (1400 - 1750)
Dr Shona Kallestrup
Lecturer in Art History
19th/20th century; East Central Europe; Scandinavia; architecture and design; art historiography
Dr Marika Knowles
Senior Lecturer in Art History
French art and theatre; Gender; historical mentalities; 19th-century France; French baroque
Dr Lenia Kouneni
Deputy Head of School
Senior Lecturer
Classical reception studies; history of archaeology; Byzantine art and its historiography; history of collecting; Grand Tour
Prof Julian Luxford
Professor
Medieval art and architecture; early modern painting; manuscript studies; monastic history.
Dr Nicole Meehan
Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies
digital museum objects; digital access and engagement; museum education; cultural memory; digital humanities; decolonising digital spaces; environmental cost of digital technologies
Prof Laura Moretti
Head of the School of Art History
Professor of Art and Architectural History
Architectural history in early modern Italy; use of architectural space for musical performances, artwork display, and collecting practices in early modern Italy; history of the early modern illustrated book.
Dr Stephanie O'Rourke
Senior Lecturer in Art History
eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European visual culture
Dr Alistair Rider
Senior Lecturer in Art History
Twentieth-century art, particularly 1950-1980, minimalism, abstraction, histories of sculpture, theories of art practice
Dr Sam Rose
Senior Lecturer in Art History
Modernism; modern art in Britain; art theory and aesthetics; pictures and perception; realism and naturalism; twentieth-century and contemporary art writing
Dr Billy Rough
Lecturer
British Art of the long nineteenth century; British theatre including music hall; the works of Walter Sickert; etching revival and printmaking in the 19th century.
Prof Kathryn M. Rudy FBA FRSE
Bishop Wardlaw Professor
Medieval manuscripts and objects; pilgrimage, real and imagined; forensic approaches to objects and materials; early printing; craft, embodied knowledge, and intangible cultural heritage in Europe and Asia.
Dr Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri
Director of Teaching
Lecturer
Lecturer in Art History
Latin American art of the 20th and 21st century; transnational links between Europe and Latin America; kinetic art; colour theory; the emergence of abstraction; modernisms.
Dr Emily Savage
Associate Lecturer
Medieval material culture; illuminated manuscripts; marginalia; spolia and re-use; the visual culture of death, apocalypse, and the Last Judgment.
Dr Catherine Spencer
Senior Lecturer in Art History
Performance art, abstraction, photography, intersectional feminism and queer theory, internationalism and transnationalism, art in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the US, modern and contemporary art
Dr Elsje van Kessel
Senior Lecturer in Art History
Early modern art history; Italian art; Iberian art; Portuguese world; global art history; history of use, display and collecting; painting; material culture; visual arts in early modern writing; portraiture; object mobility; art and the ocean.
Dr Anthi Andronikou
Honorary Research Fellow
Early Italian Painting; Byzantine Art; Medieval Mediterranean; Art and Material Culture of the Crusades in the Latin East; Post-Byzantine Art; Mendicant Orders; Pseudo-Arabic in Christian contexts
Dr Agnès Bos
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Decorative arts, History of furniture, Medieval and Renaissance architecture, History of collections, Museum studies.
Dr Jose Ramon Marcaida Lopez
Honorary Lecturer
Art and visual culture in the early modern Hispanic world; Spanish Baroque art and culture; Visual and material culture of science, medicine and technology; Skill, practices, materials and techniques
