Histories of photography, performance and live art; LGBTQIA+ artmaking, cultural politics and its intersections with queer theory; environmental art, ecology and ecocritical debates and methods; identity and subjectivity; archives
Pre-Columbian and colonial art of Latin America; print culture and materiality in colonial South America; movement and circulation; decolonial theory; hybridity, visibility and invisibility; material religion; colonialism and race; nationalism and the construction of regional art histories
Modern and contemporary art from South Asia, the history of craft, design, and “folk and tribal arts,” and the politics of culture and heritage in South Asia.
19th- and 20th-century European art; feminism and global politics; art and visual culture in South Africa; colonial critique, photographic histories and contemporary art from Africa; the image of the 'Jew'; race, racialisation and representation in modern and contemporary art
Medieval art and architecture of Africa; Ethiopic, Syriac, Armenian, and Copto-Arabic illuminated manuscripts; Ethiopian and Eritrean art; historiography; Oriental Orthodox Christianity.
Modern and contemporary art in a global frame; art and architecture of South Asia; Islamic art in South Asia; colonial photography; twentieth-century partition history; museum studies; repatriation politics; postcolonial theory and criticism; object mobilities; cross-border methodologies
Art, Design and Architecture; Cultural Understanding; Heritage, Industry and Cultures; Media, Communications and Information; Thoughts, Beliefs and Philosophy; Sustainable Cities.
Materiality in the conservation of time-based media and performance art; feminist new materialisms; ethics and performativity of cultural heritage; notions of periphery/decentring, inclusions/exclusions, in material art histories and conservation
19th and 20th century European art and architecture in its global contexts, German interwar art and visual culture, aesthetics and the historiography of art, theories of form and formalism, feminist and historical materialisms, life-making and the vitalist imagination, ecology, contemporary art
Modern and contemporary art; questions of feminism, gender, sexuality and subjectivity; artistic resistance to militarism and war; psychoanalysis; violence; the politics of peace
Sixteenth and seventeenth century Northern European art (especially paintings produced in the Netherlands, England and Scotland), influence of émigré practice and circulation of artists in this period, court artists, court portraiture (especially art produced at the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts), Mary, Queen of Scots, Henry Fuseli RA, technical art history/ technical studies, material studies, conservation.
Painting, sculpture, goldsmith work, drawing/design, mainly Italian, from the 14th to the earlier 16th century. Having focussed historically on questions of artistic practice, patronage, ideology and reception, Alison's current research on surfaces addresses the material uses and effects – social, political and aesthetic – of metals, across media and over time
Image: Still Life with Flowers and Gold Cups of Honor, Clara Peeters, 1612
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