People
Meet the academic, teaching and professional services staff, as well as PhD students, within the School of Art History.
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Dr Natalie Adamson
Deputy Head of School
Reader
The interpretation of abstract painting; Surrealism; problems in French painting and political ideology in the post-45 period; modernist photography.
Dr Francesca Borgo
Lecturer in Art History
Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century European Visual Culture; War Studies; Leonardo Studies; Materials and Materiality
Prof Karen Brown
Professor
Museums and Heritage Studies relating to: Community, Sustainability, Cultural Memory, Europe-Latin America Relations
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
Dr Luke Gartlan
Deputy Head of School
Director of Research
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.
Prof Linda Goddard
Professor
Artists' writings; word and image studies; visual and literary cultures of travel and colonialism; art writing, art criticism; nineteenth-century French art and literature
Dr Anna Grasskamp
Lecturer in Art History
Art and cultural exchange; art and ecology; cultures of craftsmanship and design; material culture studies; histories of collecting and display; practices of (re)framing and recycling; historiography of (global) art histories
Dr Andrew Horn
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Italian art of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Catholic Reform/Counter-Reform; Baroque art and culture; religious theatre and ritual; performance; illusionism; early modern spectacle; painting; sculpture; intermediality
Dr Jeremy Howard
Senior Lecturer in Art History
European/Eurasian Art and Architecture 1600-1920, particularly east, central and northern Europe (e.g. Russia, Baltic and Balkan regions, Scotland); Schooling: Architecture, Art, Materialities and Pedagogies.
Dr Shona Kallestrup
Lecturer in Art History
19th/20th century; East Central Europe; Scandinavia; architecture and design; art historiography
Dr Marika Knowles
Director of Impact
Senior Lecturer in Art History
French art and theatre; Gender; historical mentalities; 19th-century France; French baroque
Dr Lenia Kouneni
Director of Teaching
Lecturer in Art History
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.
Ms Nicole Meehan
Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies
digital museum objects; digital access and engagement; museum education; cultural memory; digital humanities; decolonising digital spaces
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; twentieth-century and contemporary art writing; contemporary art in relation to modernism
Dr Billy Rough
Associate Lecturer in Art History
MA Combined Studies Co-ordinator
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
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. On leave until 2024.
Dr Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri
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 in Art History
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 Italian and Iberian art; history of use, display and collecting; visual arts in early modern writing; portraiture; object mobility.
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
Art History 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
