Academic Staff

Academic Staff

Professor Tim Ayers

Medieval art, especially stained glass and sculpture; art and education.

Dr Ana Bilbao Yarto

Curating contemporary art; histories of exhibition-making and art institutions; contemporary art from the Global South.

Dr James Boaden

American from 1930 to the present; ideas about the 'neo-avant-garde'; the crossover between experimental film and artistic practice in the twentieth century.

Sarah Brown

The early history of stained glass restoration and post-medieval reception of medieval art; aspects and periods of stained glass and its contribution to the decor of the ecclesiastical interior.

Professor Jason Edwards

The global contexts of 'British' Sculpture, c.1757-1914; art around the Arctic circle; world and complex systems; ocean studies; art of the British empire; craft and design reform in long-nineteenth-century Britain; the reception of Buddhist art in the Atlantic world; J.M.W. Turner; Aestheticism; nineteenth-century Assyriology and Egyptology; Victorian art and interiors; critical animal studies; and queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky.

Professor Anthony Geraghty            

English Baroque architecture; architectural drawing and design practice; early modern university architecture.

Professor Jane Hawkes                       

Late antique, early Christian and early Islamic art and architecture; Anglo-Saxon art, with a particular emphasis on the sculpture and its historiography; the art and architecture of 19th- and early 20th-century medieval revivals.

Professor Helen Hills                        

Baroque art; Italian art and architecture c.1550-c.1790; holiness & baroque art, architecture, urbanism; architecture, gender and sexuality; Renaissance and baroque art theory; architectural theory; female spirituality, art and architecture; early modern/ baroque materialities; art and economies of salvation; silver from New Spain to Naples.

Dr Richard Johns            

Art and visual culture in Britain from c.1650 to 1850, especially decorative history painting, and the relationship between art and architecture; landscape and marine painting; questions of taste and value in art.    

Dr Teresa Kittler

Artistic practices from 1945 to the present day, specifically Italian postwar art and primarily on issues related to art and the environment and questions related to gender.                            

Professor Amanda Lillie                       

15th- and 16th-century Italian art and architecture, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which buildings and works of art were shaped by social and economic conditions; patronage; representations and perceptions of architecture, landscape, air, rocks and place.

Dr Richard McClary

Islamic art and architecture; the architecture and ceramic arts of the wider Iranian world from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.

Dr Jeanne Nuechterlein      

15th- and 16th-century art in Northern Europe, with particular interests in the impact of the Reformation and the purposes and visual effects of different artistic media.

Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn

Receptions of ancient and Renaissance art; Victorian painting and sculpture; the Pre-Raphaelites; Victorian Aestheticism; Victorian and twentieth-century art criticism (particularly Walter Pater, Roger Fry); relationships between philosophical aesthetics and art practice.

Dr Nicola Sinclair

Northern Renaissance painting and its interaction with religious and social constructs; nineteenth-century historiography, museology, private collecting and the art market, and the place of religious art in ecclesiastical and secular architecture.

Dr Hanna Vorholt

Medieval art and visual culture focussing especially on illuminated manuscripts, and the representation of Jerusalem in the medieval West

Professor Michael White               

The twentieth-century European avant-gardes, especially Dada and Constructivism; modernist architecture and design.

Dr Cordula Van Wyhe              

Material and visual culture in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Low Countries; especially in relation to political imagery, female spirituality, and court culture.

Officers of the Board

Departmental officers

Directors of Research Schools

Affiliated Staff

Emeritus Professors

• Richard Marks
• Christopher Norton

Honorary Visiting Professors

• Tim Barringer
• Whitney Davis
• Rosemary Hill

Honorary Visiting Fellows

• Suzanne Fagence Cooper
• Joseph Friedman
• Richard Green
• Philip Lankester
• Janina Ramirez
• Peter Trippi

Visiting Tutors

• Dr Meg Boulton
• Dr Sarah Burnage
• Dr Gabriele Matino
• Dr Susan Vincent
• Dr Ivo Rauch

Teaching Assistants

• Marte Stinis
• Lydia Miller
• Francesca Curtis
• Miguel Gaete Caceres
• Mariam Hale
• Jon King
• Sammi Scott
• Madeline Salzman
• Charlotte Davis
• Caitlin Doley

Administrative Staff

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For all general queries:

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