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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 Agnès Bos
Lecturer in Art History
Decorative arts, History of furniture, Medieval and Renaissance architecture, History of collections, Museum studies.
Dr Karen Brown
Senior Lecturer
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 Linda Goddard
Senior Lecturer
Head of School
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 Alistair Rider
Senior Lecturer
Twentieth-century art, particularly 1950-1980, minimalism, abstraction, histories of sculpture, theories of art practice
Dr Sam Rose
Lecturer
Modernism; modern art in Britain; art theory and aesthetics; twentieth-century and contemporary art writing; contemporary art in relation to modernism
Prof Kathryn M. Rudy FRSE
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 2022
Dr Ilse Sturkenboom
Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History
Dr Elsje van Kessel
Senior Lecturer
Early modern Italian and Iberian art; history of use, display and collecting; visual arts in early modern writing; portraiture; object mobility.