Department of History of Art staff
We are one of the largest and fastest-growing History of Art departments in the UK. The image above shows just a selection of current members of staff in the Department of History of Art at York. We have a very diverse range of expertise and you can find out more about our specialisms, research and teaching by clicking on the individual staff profiles.
Academic Staff
Academic Staff
Medieval art, especially stained glass and sculpture; art and education.
American from 1930 to the present; ideas about the 'neo-avant-garde'; the crossover between experimental film and artistic practice in the twentieth century.
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.
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.
English Baroque architecture; architectural drawing and design practice; early modern university architecture.
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.
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.
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.
Contemporary art; art and the Internet; digital media; histories of art and technology; live art and performance from the 1960s to today; feminist science and technology studies; medical humanities
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
| Post | Name |
|---|---|
| Head of Department | Prof Michael White |
| Research Chair | Prof Elizabeth Prettejohn |
| Chair of the Board of Studies | Dr James Boaden |
| Joint Degrees contact | Dr James Boaden |
| Chair of Graduate Studies | Prof Tim Ayers |
| Director of PhD Programme | Dr Cordula van Wyhe |
| Head of Admissions | Prof Jason Edwards |
| Careers Liaison Officer | Prof Jane Hawkes |
| Examinations Officer | Dr Hanna Vorholt |
| Disability Officer | Dr Hanna Vorholt |
| Equal Opportunities Officer | |
| Visiting Student Coordinator |
Directors of Research Schools
| British Art | Dr Richard Johns |
| Medieval Art and Medievalisms | Dr Hanna Vorholt |
| Sculpture Studies | Prof Helen Hills |
| Stained Glass Studies | Sarah Brown |
| Architectural History and Theory | Prof Amanda Lillie |
Affiliated Staff
Emeritus Professors
Honorary Visiting Professors
Honorary Visiting Fellows
Visiting Tutor
- Dr Meg Boulton
- Dr Sarah Burnage
- Dr Gabriele Matino
- Dr Nicola Sinclair
- Dr Greg Sullivan
- Dr Susan Vincent
Postdoctoral Researchers
Teaching Assistants
Administrative Staff
Office opening hours for visitors: 9.30am-4.30pm, Mon-Fri
For all general queries:
- call +44 (1904) 322978
- e-mail history-of-art@york.ac.uk
- check the department web pages.
- Fax for all admin staff: +44 (01904) 323427
Please note: the office doesn't keep diaries for members of the academic faculty. Please contact academics directly.
| Departmental Administrator: (Mon, Wed, Thurs) |
Deborah Fenton Tel: +44 (01904) 322978 Email: history-of-art@york.ac.uk Room: V/227 |
| Departmental Administrator: (Tues, Fri) |
Hazel Richards Tel: +44 (01904) 322978 Email: history-of-art@york.ac.uk Room: V/227 |
| Departmental Administrator: (Mon-Fri) |
Stephanie King Tel: +44 (01904) 322978 Email: history-of-art@york.ac.uk Room: V/227 |
| Academic Administrator: All aspects of our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, office manager |
Fiona Watson Tel: +44 (01904) 322978 Email: history-of-art@york.ac.uk Room: V/226 |
| Examinations Coordinator: |
Thomas Straszewski Tel: +44 (01904) 323708 Email: thomas.straszewski@york.ac.uk Room: V/227 |
| Department Manager: Finance, planning, HR, REF, staff research grant |
Andrew Wilkinson Tel: +44 (01904) 322978 Email: andrew.wilkinson@york.ac.uk Room: V/225 |