History of Art

Programme Structure

Research areas:

• British art and architecture of the thirteenth to fifteenth centuries.

• Curating contemporary art; histories of exhibition-making and art institutions; contemporary art from the Global South

• Post-war and contemporary art history.

• The relationship between stained glass art and craft and the interactions between art history and conservation.

• British, American and European sculpture in its global contexts, c.1760-1914; queer theory; animal studies; the polar world.

• British architectural history, 1550-1900, particularly architectural drawing, the English baroque, and architecture and intellectual history.

• Early medieval / Anglo-Saxon art, the history of its study, and the area of medieval revival art.