We are one of the largest and fastest-growing History of Art departments in the UK, with a diverse range of expertise. The image above shows just a selection of current members of staff in the Department of History of Art at York.
Medieval art, especially stained glass and sculpture; art and education.
Curating contemporary art; histories of exhibition-making and art institutions; contemporary art from the Global South.
American from 1930 to the present; ideas about the 'neo-avant-garde'; the crossover between experimental film and artistic practice in the twentieth century.
Sculpture, space, theories of viewing and reader reception/s. She has special interests in theory and in a transhistorical practice of the History of Art.
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.
Aesthetic Interactions in South Asia amongst Mughal, Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist and British artists; the global contexts of British sculpture, c.1700-1914; the art of the British empire; queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; and ecclesiastical pantheons, especially St Paul's Cathedral.
English Baroque architecture; architectural drawing and design practice; early modern university architecture.
HIV/AIDS, and queer and postcolonial practices across diverse media.
Medieval art, with a particular focus on stained glass, illuminated manuscripts and sculpture; the design and adaptation of medieval narratives across visual media and texts; the post-medieval reception and restoration of medieval stained glass.
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.
Art in early modern Italy; Carlo Crivelli; prints and drawings; intermediality; metapainting; the role of art in religious contemplation; the relationship between theory and practice.
Art and visual culture in Britain c.1650-1850, especially decorative history painting; JMW Turner; British art after 1945, its global connections and affiliations; ceramics.
West German Art during the Cold War.
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.
Islamic art and architecture; the architecture and ceramic arts of the wider Iranian world from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries.
Islamic art and archaeology; craft practices in the Middle East; Orientalist depictions of the Islamic world; Ottoman architecture and infrastructure in Greece.
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.
Italian art c.1300–1550; 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.
Currently researching 'Rubens and Islam: Global exchange and European identity in early modern Antwerp'.
Medieval art and visual culture focussing especially on illuminated manuscripts, and the representation of Jerusalem in the medieval West
The twentieth-century European avant-gardes, especially Dada and Constructivism; modernist architecture and design.
Early modern cultural history with particular reference to the seventeenth-century Low Countries. Major interests include the history of dress (including fashion), Rubens, religious and political imagery, royal patronage, and early modern court culture.
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Adam Hewitt |
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Disability Officer: |
Dr Jessica Richardson |
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Computing Officer: |
Tracey Milnes |
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Ethics (incl Faculty Ethics Committee): |
Professor Cordula van Wyhe |
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Student Services Manager |
Sarah Finch Email: sarah.finch@york.ac.uk |
Administrative Manager | Laura Hurst Email: laura.hurst@york.ac.uk |
Service Coordination Manager |
Melissa Henthorne Email: melissa.henthorne@york.ac.uk |
PG Administrator (Mon-Thurs) |
Stephanie King Email: history-of-art@york.ac.uk |
Department Support Administrator |
Tracey Milnes Email: hhoa-support@york.ac.uk |
Department Support Administrator | Vacant |
Reception & Department Support Administrator (Mon, Wed & Fri) |
Anna Ross Email: hhoa-support@york.ac.uk |
PA to HoD/UG Administrator | Laura Reid Email: history-of-art@york.ac.uk |
Assessment Administrator (Mon-Thurs) |
Katy Moors Email: histart-exams@york.ac.uk |
Assessment Administrator (Wed-Fri) |
Susie Beckham Email: histart-exams@york.ac.uk |