Departmental officers

Research interests:

• Modern and contemporary art
• Critical theories of the avant-garde
• Art Law

Research interests:

• British art 1650-1850
• Modern British art
• JMW Turner
• Ceramics

Research interests:

• Modern and contemporary
• Photography and film
• Gender and sexuality 
• American art 

Research interests:

• The visual and material culture of South Asia, 1526-1947
• Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh court painting
• Long-Nineteenth-Century photography in Asia
• Queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
• Imperial scupltural pantheons at St Paul's Cathedral and York Minster

Research interests:

• Ancient Western Asian art
• Museum Studies
• Art Historical and Archaeological theory
• Politics of archaeology
• Theory and practice of decolonisation

Research interests:

• Modern British art
• Modern art
• Art writing
• Historiography and theory
• Gender and sexuality

Research interests:

• Dress and fashion history and theory
  
• Rubens
  
• Seventeenth-century Low Countries
  
• Material culture
  
• Habsburg court culture

Research interests:

• Modern and contemporary 
• Gender and feminism
• Ecology and the environment
• Modern Italian Art

Research interests:

• Islamic art market (1850-2024)
• Islamic ceramics - Iran & Central Asia
• Medieval Islamic architecture
• Stucco in the Islamic world
• Looting, faking and forgeries
  
  
  
  
  

Research interests:

• Histories of the book
• Manuscripts
• Medieval
• Art and science
• Environmental humanities
  
  
  
  

Research interests:

• Materiality and the agency of matter
• Temporality
• Magic, the supernatural and the miraculous image (image/relic)
• Image, ritual space and the performance of script
• The reception, reworking and display of ‘medieval’ art, from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century