Academic, Teaching and Research Staff

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Dr Gabe Beckhurst

Critical histories and practices of photography, performance and live art; LGBTQIA+ artmaking and cultural politics; decolonial ecologies and ecocritical debates and methods; identity and subjectivity; politics of the archive

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Dr Brian Castriota

Conservation of time-based media, contemporary art, and archaeological materials; agential realist, new materialist, post-humanist, and post-qualitative approaches to conservation; fragment, loss, and absence

Professor Briony Fer

20th-century European and American art; contemporary art

Dr Emily Floyd

Pre-Columbian and colonial art of Latin America; print culture and materiality in colonial South America; movement and circulation; hybridity, visibility and invisibility; nationalism and regional art histories

Professor Tamar Garb

Contemporary Art from Africa; Art and Sexuality/Gender in the Modern Period; South African Photography

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Dr Tea Ghigo

Materials and Making, Material Analyses, Museum Studies

Dr Jacopo Gnisci

Medieval art and architecture of Africa; Ethiopic, Syriac, Armenian, and Copto-Arabic illuminated manuscripts; Ethiopian and Eritrean art; historiography; Oriental Orthodox Christianity.

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Dr Vivek Gupta (BA Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-2026)

Transculturation, Global, Premodern.

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Dr Madeleine Harrison

Modern and contemporary US-American art and visual culture; the politics of style and genre; decolonial and critical race art histories; inter-war African American painting and photography; historiographies and critical histories of African American art.

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Libby Ireland

Contemporary art conservation, inherited practices in collection care, relationships between artists and museums, modern materials

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Dr Amanda (Xiao) Ju

Global contemporary art; international socialist art and post-socialist art; feminisms.

Dr Cadence Kinsey

Contemporary art, digital media, histories of art and technology, live art and performamce, questions of gender and subjectivity

Dr Aparna Kumar

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

Professor Pip Laurenson

Art, Design and Architecture; Cultural Understanding; Heritage, Industry and Cultures; Media, Communications and Information; Thoughts, Beliefs and Philosophy; Sustainable Cities.

Dr Hélia Marçal

Materiality in the conservation of time-based media and performance art; Feminist new materialisms; Ethics and performativity of cultural heritage.

Professor Robert Mills

Medieval visual and literary culture; gender, sexuality and queer studies; histories of violence

Dr Rosemary Moore

Early modern art and anatomy, knowledge and the body, interactive prints.

Dr Jenny Nachtigall

19th and 20th century European art and architecture; German interwar art, aesthetics and the historiography of art; feminist and historical materialisms, ecology, contemporary art

Professor Mignon Nixon

Modern and contemporary art; questions of feminism, gender, sexuality and subjectivity; artistic resistance to militarism and war; psychoanalysis; violence; the politics of peace

Dr Jacob Paskins

Modern architecture and urban design; building sites and construction labour; obsolescence of media and technology.

Dr Ben Pollitt

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British art, maritime exploration and print culture.

Dr Nicholas Robbins

Art and visual culture in Britain and the former British empire, 1700-1900; history of science; environmental humanities.

Professor Rose Marie San Juan

Early modern Italian visual culture (Rome and Naples); urban space and visual technologies (print / film)

Dr Stephanie Schwartz

Photography and its Histories, Documentary, American Art

Dr Allison Stielau

Northern European art and material culture, c.1400-1700

Professor Richard Taws

18th- and 19th-century French and British art; print culture; history and theory of science, media, and technology

Professor Alison Wright

Painting, sculpture, goldsmith work, drawing/design, mainly Italian, from the 14th-16th century. The material uses and effects – social, political and aesthetic – of metals, across media and over time