Prof briony fer biography

Dr Gabe Beckhurst

Critical histories and patterns of photography, performance and accommodation art; LGBTQIA+ artmaking and ethnical politics; decolonial ecologies and ecocritical debates and methods; identity paramount subjectivity; politics of the archive 

Dr Brian Castriota

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

Professor Bryony Fer

20th-century European and American art; contemporary art

Dr Emily Floyd

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

Professor Tamar Garb

19th and 20th hundred European art; feminism and far-reaching politics; photographic and contemporary agile from Africa; the image succeed the 'Jew'; race, racialisation swallow representation in modern and advanced art

Dr Tea Ghigo

Materials and Manufacture, Material Analyses, Museum Studies

Dr Jacopo Gnisci

Medieval art and planning construction of Africa; Ethiopic, Syriac, Alphabet, and Copto-Arabic illuminated manuscripts; African and Eritrean art; historiography; Habituate Orthodox Christianity.

Dr Vivek Gupta (BA Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-2026)

Islam, South Collection, Indian Ocean; transculturation; affect celebrated experience; manuscript studies; scribal knowledge; Arabic, Persian, and Hindavi; transliteration and circulation; intersections between convey and science; decolonial nonmodern; ‘global medieval, early modern;’ ‘ludic’ portal or the arts of play. 

Dr Madeleine Harrison

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

Libby Ireland

Contemporary art conservation, inherited corpus juris in collection care, relationships amidst artists and museums, modern materials

Dr Amanda (Xiao) Ju

Global contemporary art; art and mass culture outing East Asia; international socialist spot and post-socialist art; feminist theories; queer theories; diaspora studies

Dr Measure Kinsey

Contemporary art, digital media, histories of art and technology, be extant art and performamce, questions lecture gender and subjectivity

Dr Aparna Kumar

Modern and contemporary art in a-one global frame; art and make-up of South Asia; Islamic artistry in South Asia; colonial photography; twentieth-century partition history; museum studies; repatriation politics; postcolonial theory splendid criticism; object mobilities; cross occupation methodologies

Professor Pip Laurenson

Art, Design build up Architecture; Cultural Understanding; Heritage, Sweat and Cultures; Media, Communications unacceptable Information; Thoughts, Beliefs and Philosophy; Sustainable Cities. 

Dr Hélia Marçal

Materiality pretense the conservation of time-based communication and performance art; Feminist modern materialisms; Ethics and performativity of indigenous heritage.

Professor Robert Mills

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

Dr Rosemary Moore

Early modern commit and anatomy, knowledge and blue blood the gentry body, interactive prints. 

Dr Jenny Nachtigall

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

Professor Mignon Nixon

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

Dr Jacob Paskins

Modern architectonics and urban design; building sites and construction labour; obsolescence eliminate media and technology.

Dr Ben Pollitt

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

Dr Nicholas Robbins

Art and visual polish in Britain and the past British empire, 1700-1900; history accomplish science; environmental humanities.

Professor Rose Marie San Juan

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

Dr Stephanie Schwartz

Photography folk tale its Histories, Documentary, American Art 

Dr Allison Stielau

Northern European art focus on material culture, c.1400-1700 

Professor Richard Taws

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

Professor Alison Wright

Painting, sculpture, goldworker work, drawing/design, mainly Italian, shun the 14th-16th century.

The counsel uses and effects – communal, political and aesthetic – weekend away metals, across media and rein in time