Academic staff by research and supervision areas

Dr Francesca Berry

Dr Francesca Berry

Senior Lecturer

  • French modernist art, design and visual culture 1850-1940
  • Magazines, exhibitions and mass culture in France 1900-1940
  • Art, the interior and domesticity
  • Edouard Vuillard and the Nabis
  • Femininities and Feminisms
  • Parisian modernisms and modernity

Dr Michaela Giebelhausen

Dr Michaela Giebelhausen

Assistant Professor of Art History and Curatorial Practice

My research interests sit in several areas: museum architecture and histories; exhibition histories; Victorian art; eighteenth and nineteenth-centuries art and architecture; history of photography.

My research has been supported by The Michael-Wills Scholarship Fund (University of Oxford), The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), The British Academy, The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in ...

Dr Sophie Hatchwell

Dr Sophie Hatchwell

Associate Professor in History of Art

I am an historian of visual culture, and my research focuses on text-image relationship and the dissemination of art in Britain in the 20th century. My research has been supported by the Barnes-Graham Trust and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Dr David Hemsoll

Dr David Hemsoll

Reader in Architectural History and Theory

Research and supervision areas:

  • Renaissance/Early Modern art and architecture in Italy
  • Renaissance/Early Modern architectural theory
  • The Classical tradition and the revival of Antiquity
  • Architectural drawings
  • Michelangelo

Dr Maddie Hewitson

Dr Maddie Hewitson

Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow

I am an art historian who specialises in nineteenth-century British art. My research focuses on the visual and material cultures that emerged from British encounters with the Middle East and North Africa in the mid-to-late Victorian period. My Leverhulme fellowship project, titled ‘The First Covenant: understanding the role of the Hebrew Bible in Victorian art’ offers the first ...

Dr Claire Jones

Dr Claire Jones

Senior Lecturer in History of Art

Research and supervision areas:

  • Sculpture in nineteenth-century France and Britain
  • Sculpture and childhood
  • The decorative arts
  • Discourses of materials and of making
  • Histories of collecting and display 

Dr Elizabeth L'Estrange

Dr Elizabeth L'Estrange

Associate Professor in History of Art

  • Manuscripts and early printed books, especially Books of Hours
  • Art at the French and Burgundian Courts c. 1400-1600
  • Women as patrons and consumers of late medieval early modern art
  • Text-image relations
  • The querelle des femmes in art and literature

Dr Kate Nichols

Dr Kate Nichols

Associate Professor in Art History

Research and supervision areas:

  • Victorian visual culture
  • Art and imperialism
  • Classical Reception Studies
  • Animal studies
  • Art and industry
  • The politics of collecting and display

 

Dr Gregory Salter

Dr Gregory Salter

Associate Professor in History of Art

Research and supervision areas:

  • British art after 1945
  • Masculinities
  • Queer art histories
  • Art and home
  • Art and migration

Dr Camilla Smith

Dr Camilla Smith

Senior Lecturer
Head of Department of Art History, Curating and Visual Studies

  • Sexuality and gender in Weimar Germany
  • Women artists in interwar German art
  • Eighteenth-century Swiss intellectual history and culture;
  • Erotica and censorship
  • Early twentieth-century German intellectual history and culture
  • Text-image relations 

Dr Deniz Sözen

Dr Deniz Sözen

Lecturer in History of Art

Deniz Sözen specializes in contemporary art practices and decolonising theories in the context of globalisation and diasporic art. She is particularly interested in Black and non-hegemonic art histories, with particular focus on artistic strategies that destabilise fixed notions of belonging and identity in relation to cultural theories concerned with hybridity, creolisation, opacity, ...