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Dr TJ Demos Main research interests: 20th century art, contemporary art and globalisation. Office:  301, 20 Gordon Square Office hours: Wednesday 10-11; Thursday 1-2 +44 (0)20 3108 4015 (internal 54015) Email: tj.demos@ucl.ac.uk
Diana Dethloff Main research interests: 17th century British painting and patronage. Office:  201, 20 Gordon Square Office hours: Monday 1-2; Thursday 12-1 +44 (0)20 3108 4013 (internal 54013) Email: d.dethloff@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Natasha Eaton Main research interests: 18th and 19th century British art, post-coloniality and empire. Office:  402, 20 Gordon Square Office hours: Monday 3-4; Tuesday 1-2 +44 (0)20 3108 4018 (internal 54018)  Email: n.eaton@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Mechthild Fend Main research interests: 18th and 19th century French art. Office:  G05, 21 Gordon Square Office Hours: Wednesday 11-12 and by appointment +44 (0)20 3108 4019 (internal 54019) Email: m.fend@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Briony Fer Main research interests: 20th century European and American art; contemporary art. Office:  305, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: On sabbatical 2011-2012 +44 (0)20 3108 4030 (internal 54030) Email: b.fer@ucl.ac.uk
Charles Ford Main research interests: 17th century Dutch painting. Office:  B01, 20 Gordon Square Office hours: Tuesday 11-12; Thursday 11-12 +44 (0)20 3108 4010 (internal 54010) Email: charles.ford@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Tamar Garb Head of Department Main research interests: 19th and 20th century French art and visual culture; contemporary art; feminism and global politics; art and culture in South Africa; the image of the 'Jew'; race and representation in modern and contemporary art. Office:  202, 20 Gordon Square Office hours: by appointment +44 (0)20 3108 4014 (internal 54014) Email: t.garb@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Tom Gretton Main research interests: 18th and 19th century British, French and Mexican culture. Office:  B06, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: Monday 12-1; Thursday 1-2 +44 (0)20 3108 4021 (internal 54021) Email: t.gretton@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Sarah James Main research interests: 20th century photography and photographic theory, German and Eastern European Art, contemporary art and theory. Office:  206, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: Thursday 4-6 +44 (0)20 3108 4029 (internal 54029) Email: sarah.james@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Petra Lange-Berndt Main research interests: Modern and contemporary with a history, materiality, entanglements of art and science, animal studies, unpopular arts such as taxidermy, artists' colonies. Office:  407, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: Wednesday 11-12; Thursday 12-1 +44 (0)20 3108 4031 (internal 54031) Email: p.lange-berndt@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Maria Loh Main research interests: Early modern Italian art and theory; Venice; theories of authorship and desire; repetition and the double in art and film. Office:  406, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: Tuesday 1.30-2.30; Thursday 4-5 +44 (0)20 3108 4032 (internal 54032) Email: m.loh@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Rose Marie San Juan Main research interests: Early modern Italian visual culture (Rome and Naples); urban space and visual technologies (print / film). Office:  204, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: Wednesday 4.30-5.30; Thursday 1.30-2.30 +44 (0)20 3108 4027 (internal 54027) Email: r.sanjuan@ucl.ac.uk
Professor Frederic J. Schwartz Main research interests: Modern German art, architecture and design; critical theory and the historiography of art. Office:  205, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: Monday 12-1; Thursday 2-3 +44 (0)20 3108 4028 (internal 54028) Email: f.schwartz@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Stephanie Schwartz Main research interests: 19th and 20th Century Photography and Photographic Theory, American Visual Culture, Postcolonial Theory and Geography, Contemporary Cuban Art, Media Theory Office:  307, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: Tuesday 2.30-3.30; Thursday 4-5 +44 (0)20 3108 4026 (internal 54026) Email:  stephanie.schwartz@ucl.ac.uk
Libby Sheldon Main research interests: Methods and materials of artists, particularly the employment and purpose of pigments on easel paintings Office:  303, 20 Gordon Square Office hours: Tuesday 1.30-2.30 +44 (0)20 3108 4017 (internal 54017) Email: l.sheldon@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Richard Taws Main research interests: 18th and 19th-Century French and British visual culture; art and the French Revolution; print culture. Office:  403, 20 Gordon Square Office hours: Tuesday 11.30-12.30; Thursday 4.30-5.30 +44 (0)20 3108 4025 (internal 54025) Email: r.taws@ucl.ac.uk
Dr Alison Wright Main research interests: Italian painting, sculpture and drawing/ design from the 14th to the earlier 16th century, focusing on  artistic practice, functions, patronage, questions of ideology and reception. Office:  G05, 21 Gordon Square Office hours: Tuesday 1.15-2.15; Thursday 12-1 +44 (0)20 3108 4033 (internal 54033) Email: alison.wright@ucl.ac.uk