The Future of the Arts (May 8)
Join Grayson Perry, Lisa Jardine, Malcolm Grant and David Willets MP for a lively debate.

Jayne Parker
Jayne Parker is a lecturer in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art. More...
Jo Volley
Jo Volley is Senior Lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art. Her research is concerned with the investigation of methods and materials, mostly those that relate to painting, which are central to her practice and increasingly important in her teaching. More...
Edward Allington
Professor Edward Allington is Head of Graduate Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. More...
Dryden Goodwin
Dryden Goodwin is Reader in Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art. More...
Lisa Milroy
Lisa Milroy is Head of Graduate Painting at the Slade School of Fine Art. More...
Susan Collins
Susan Collins is Professor of Fine Art and Director of the Slade School of Fine, where she established the Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) in 1995. More...
David Burrows
David Burrows is Head of Undergraduate Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art. More...
Hayley Newman
Hayley Newman is a performance artist and is co-ordinator of the Practice-Led PhD programme at the Slade School of Fine Art. More...
Melissa Terras
Melissa Terras is the Co-Director of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and Reader in Electronic Communication in the Department of Information Studies. More...
Hannah Battershell
Hannah Battershell is a London based artist whose detailed work includes miniature paintings on buttons, paper collages framed in vintage tins and quirky illustrations. More...
Tom Lundskaer-Nielsen
Tom Lundskaer-Nielsen is Senior Lecturer in Danish at UCL. More...
Liz Rideal
Liz Rideal is an artist and lecturer at the Slade School of Fine Art and the National Portrait Gallery. Her work is in the Tate, the V&A, the British Museum, the Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), the Vancouver Art Gallery, the Yale Center for British Art (USA) and the Museet for Fototkunst (Denmark). More...
Jonathan Wolff
Professor Jonathan Wolff is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at UCL. From around 2002-5 he acted as an adviser to the Railway Safety and Standards Board on questions of the ethics of risk. More...
Timothy Mathews
Timothy Mathews is Professor of French and Comparative Criticism in UCL. His book 'Alberto Giacometti: the Art of Relation' will be published with IB Tauris in autumn 2013. More...
Michael Stewart
Michael Stewart teaches in the UCL Department of Anthropology. He has had a lifelong engagement with film and the performing arts. More...
Pantelis Michelakis
Dr Pantelis Michelakis is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. He works on ancient Greek theatre, literature and culture and their reception. More...
Maria Wyke
Professor Maria Wyke (UCL Department of Latin) works on Latin poetry and the reception of ancient Rome, especially in popular culture. More...
Amna Malik
Dr Amna Malik is Lecturer in Art History and Theory at the Slade School of Fine Art. She has published a number of articles examining contemporary art practice from the perspective of diaspora. More...
Bojan Aleksov
Dr Bojan Aleksov is a lecturer in Southeast European History at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Previously he held posts at the European University Institute in Florence and the Osteuropa Institut of the Free University in Berlin. More...
Mererid Puw Davies
Dr Mererid Puw Davies is Senior Lecturer in German at UCL. She has published widely on modern literature, film and cultural studies. More...
Dean Machin
Dr Dean Machin was an undergraduate at UCL (1996-99) and now teaches in the Department of Philosophy and works as a researcher for the Rt Hon David Willetts, Minister for the Universities and Science. More...
Peter Swaab
Professor Peter Swaab studied at Cambridge, Harvard and NYU before coming to UCL. He is the editor of the ‘Selected Nonsense and Travel Writings’ of Edward Lear and of the first ever editions of poetry and prose by Sara Coleridge. More...
Annika Lindskog
Annika Lindskog is Lecturer in Swedish (language) in the UCL Department of Scandinavian Studies. Her research focuses primarily on cultural studies, looking in particular at landscape and music (separately or combined) as cultural, societal and/or ideological actors and agents. More...
Julian Graffy
Julian Graffy is Professor of Russian Literature and Film at the School
of Slavonic and East European Studies at UCL. He has written widely on Russian literature and film.
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Giulia Biffis
Giulia
Biffis is Honorary Research Fellow at in the UCL Department of Greek & Latin. In 2012 she gained her PhD in Classics at UCL, with a thesis on
Greek Hellenistic poetry, more specifically Lycophron’s 'Alexandra'.
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Katie Meheux
Dr Katie Meheux is Deputy Librarian of the UCL Institute of Archaeology Library, Chair of the UCL Library Services Outreach & Engagement Working Group and a Public Engagement and Impact Champion for the Institute of Archaeology. More...
Gesine Manuwald
Gesine Manuwald is Professor of Latin and has been at UCL since 2007, after stints in Freiburg (Germany), Oxford and Princeton. More...
Philip Schofield
Philip Schofield is Professor of the History of Legal and Political Thought in the Faculty of Laws and Director of the Bentham Project at UCL. More...
Matthew Jones
Dr Matthew Jones is a Research Associate in the History Department, working on the AHRC project 'Cultural Memory and British Cinema-going of the 1960s'. More...
Dr Martin Liebscher
Dr Martin Liebscher is Honorary Senior Lecturer at the UCL Centre for the History of Psychological Disciplines and Research Fellow at the German Department. More...
Sonu Shamdasani
Professor Sonu
Shamdasani works on the history of psychology and psychiatry.
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Florian Mussgnug
Dr Florian Mussgnug is Lecturer in Italian Literature at UCL, where he also directs the graduate programme in Comparative Literature. More...
Michael Berkowitz
Professor Berkowitz, a native of Rochester, New York, received his BA from Hobart College (Geneva, New York) and his MA and PhD from the University of Wisconsin (Madison). At Wisconsin he studied under the late George L. Mosse. More...
Alicia Spencer-Hall
Alicia Spencer-Hall completed her BA (Hons) and MPhil at Churchill College, Cambridge, specialising early on in medieval French and German literature. She is in the third year of a PhD at UCL. More...
Bob Mills
Dr Robert Mills joined the UCL Department of Art History in 2012. He is the author of 'Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure and Punishment in Medieval Culture' (2005) and co-author of 'A Gay History of Britain' (2007). More...
Jane Gilbert
Dr Jane Gilbert teaches French and Comparative Literature at UCL. Her research focuses on medieval French and English literature in dialogue with modern critical theories. More...
Elizabeth Dearnley
Dr Elizabeth Dearnley holds a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship within the UCL Department of French, and is conducting a three-year project on the Europe-wide dissemination of the short, fantastical narratives known as Breton lais. More...
Ella Cullen
Ella Cullen is studying for a PhD at UCL, supervised by Jane Gilbert (UCL department of French) and Catherine Keen (UCL Department of Italian). More...
Belinda É Stojanovic
Belinda É Stojanovic is a psychologist, Expressive Arts Therapist and musician. Aside from music performance and composition, her photography has also been internationally awarded and exhibited in London galleries. More...
Christopher Peacocke
Christopher Peacocke has occupied the Richard Wollheim Chair of Philosophy at UCL since 2007. He teaches at UCL in the summer term, spending the rest of the year at Columbia University in New York City. More...
Geraldine Brodie
Dr Geraldine Brodie teaches Translation Studies and supervises the SELCS Writing Lab at UCL. Her research centres on the role of the theatre translator, investigating issues of visibility, celebrity, agency and collaboration in translating for performance. More...
Iwan Morgan
Iwan Morgan is Professor of US Studies and Head of US Programmes at the Institute of the Americas at UCL. He is also a Rothermere American Institute (Oxford University) Fellow. More...
Vivienne Lo
Dr Vivienne Lo is director of the UCL China Centre for Health and Humanity. She is an historian of the body and movement in ancient China and a long term practitioner of the martial arts. More...
John Mullan
John Mullan is Professor of English at UCL and the author of 'What Matters in Jane Austen?' (Bloomsbury, 2012). He has published widely on eighteenth-century literature, which is his academic specialism, but also on contemporary fiction. More...
John Dickie
John Dickie is Professor of Italian Studies at UCL. He is an internationally recognised specialist on many aspects of Italian history. More...
Mark Ford
Mark Ford is a Professor in the English Department - and a poet: he has published three collections, 'Landlocked' (1992), 'Soft Sift' (2001) and 'Six Children' (2011). More...
Christine Wienand
Dr Christiane Wienand is a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded research group 'Reverberations of War in Germany and Europe since 1945' at UCL. More...
Julia Wagner
Dr Julia Wagner is a Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded research group ‘Reverberations of War in Germany and Europe since 1945’ at UCL. More...
Alexandra Hills
Alexandra Hills is completing her UCL doctoral dissertation on the legacies of war in post-war Austrian and Italian literature and film, with a focus on violence and the body. More...
Mary Fulbrook
Professor Mary Fulbrook, FBA, is Professor of German History and Vice-Dean (Interdisciplinary) in the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities. More...
Gaelle Fisher
Gaelle Fisher is completing her UCL doctoral dissertation on German-speakers (including both Jews and self-defining 'ethnic Germans') who were displaced from Romania during and after the Second World War and who resettled in Germany or elsewhere.
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Stephanie Bird
Dr Stephanie Bird is Senior Lecturer in German at UCL. She has published on topics ranging from the interaction of fact and fiction in the biographical novel, the relationship of female and national identity, and the representation and ethics of shame. More...
John Took
John Took is Professor of Dante Studies in the UCL Department of Italian, previously at Birkbeck College. Author of books on Dante's aesthetic philosophy, his minor works, his general ontology or philosophy of existence, and on the 'Fiore' (a version of the 'Roman de la Rose') attributed to Dante (a critical edition with translation and apparatus). More...
Ernest Schonfield
Dr Ernest Schonfield is a Teaching Fellow in German at UCL. He was educated at the University of Sussex and UCL. Since then he has taught German language, literature and culture at Oxford University, King’s College London and UCL. More...
Peter Meineck
Dr Peter Meineck is Clinical Associate Professor of Classics at New York University, Honorary Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham and Founder of Aquila Theatre. More...

