School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies

Staff of the School

 

Find information on A-Z listing Bell, Richard Briggs, Julie Bristol, Kerry Checketts, Richard Coupe, Jenny Crawford, Joanne Curtis, Penelope Day, Gail Donnelly, Kate Droth, Martin Engh, Barbara Evans, Chris Ferguson, Catherine Frojmovic, Eva Graham, Helen Green, Valanyne Hale, Pippa Halliday, Giovanna Harker, Kerry Harrison Moore, Abigail Hartley, Joanne Hill, David Hughes, Anthony Jackson, David Karkov, Catherine Lewandowski, Simon Mainz, Valerie Macsotay Bunt, Tomas Martin, Alison McDowall, John Mitchell, Claudine Mitterbacher, Helga Morgan, Diane Morton, Peter Mullins, Edd Nassor, Jo Palmer, Roger Parigoris, Alexandra Pollock, Griselda Powers, Katie Prenowitz, Eric Rea, Will Read, Benedict Robson, Matthew Roche, Katie Rushton, Emma Seidel-Arpaci, Annette Smith, Robert Sowerby, David Sternberg, Claudia Swiboda, Marcel Szulakowska, Urszula Taylor, Christopher Thompson, Ashley Warstat, Andrew Watkins, Liz Westgarth, Mark Wood, Jonathan

Find information on Position listing Head of School & Professor of Art History Deputy Head of School Professor of Fine Art Harewood Professor of Fine Art Professor of Russian & Scandinavian Art Histories Professor of Art History & Cultural Theory Professor of the Social & Critical Histories of Art Senior Lecturers Lecturers Henry Moore Post-Doctoral Fellow Honorary Fellow Visiting Lecturers Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies Leverhulme Research Fellow Stanley Burton Scholarship Holder School Manager School Secretary School Secretarial Assistant Examinations and Assessment Administrator Undergraduate Admissions Assistant Postgraduate Team Student Support and Reception Assistant Research Administrator Learning & Teaching Administrator IT Officer Studio & Exhibitions Technician Technician

Head of School & Professor of Art History

Catherine Karkov

BA, Minnesota, MA, PhD Cornell

Anglo-Saxon art, especially manuscripts; gender and the body in late antique and early medieval culture; theories of text and image; cultural interactions East and West ... read more

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Deputy Head of School

Abigail Harrison Moore

MA St Andrews, AGMSDip Manchester, PhD Soton

19th-c.British and French decorative arts and architecture; Egyptian revival in Britain and France; 18th-c. furniture design ... read more

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Professor of Fine Art

Vanalyne Green

BFA, CalArts

Videos examine hierarchies of meaning where sex and privilege cross paths and explore the paradoxes of American citizenship within such social practices as addiction, sports, sexuality and prayer ... read more

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Professor of Fine Art

Roger Palmer

DipAd Portsmouth, Higher DipAd Chelsea

Representations of place and placelessness through photography, text, drawing and other media. Questions of location and dislocation, migration and settlement, in artworks made in different global contexts ... read more

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Harewood Professor of Fine Art

David Hill

BA Leeds, PhD London

Romantic landscape art, particularly JMW Turner and his contemporaries; contemporary landscape; classical sculpture; contemporary art and the art market ... read more

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Professor of Russian and Scandinavian Art Histories

David Jackson

BA Wales, PhD Edinburgh

Visual cultures in 19th- c. Russia, the Soviet Union and 19th- c. Scandinavia ... read more

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Professor of the Social and Critical Histories of Art

Griselda Pollock

BA Oxford, MA, PhD London

Feminist, social and postcolonial interventions in the histories of art, trauma and cultural memory, representation of and after the Holocaust, 19th-c. to contemporary visual arts and film ... read more

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Senior Lecturers

Kerry Bristol

BFA Manitoba, MA Toronto, PhD London

Architecture, 18th-c., Grand Tour and Greek Revival ... read more

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Gail Day

BA Manchester Polytechnic, MA, PhD Leeds

Dr Day's research focuses on the theories, methodologies and historiographies of modern and contemporary art, photography and architecture ... read more

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Barbara Engh

MA, PhD Minnesota

Critical theory, deconstruction, music and continental philosophy, theories of the voice ... read more

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Valerie Mainz

BA, PhD London

18th Century French art and the French Revolution; history and its images ... read more

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Will Rea

BSc London, MA, PhD East Anglia

African art, anthropology and art history, sculpture theory, material culture ... read more

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Claudia Sternberg

MA Fullerton, MA, PhD Cologne

Black and Asian culture, Anglo-Jewish culture, war and cultural memory, popular culture and film, postcolonial theory ... read more

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Ashley Thompson

BA Harvard, MA Paris 3, PhD Paris 8

Southeast Asian arts, aesthetics, literatures and cultural histories; sexual difference; deconstruction, memory and textuality ... read more

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Chris Taylor

BA, CNAA, MA Leeds Metropolitan

Contemporary artists' book production, fine printmaking, multiples and curatorial practice ... read more

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Lecturers

Richard Bell

Dip Ad Edinburgh College of Art

Questions relating to the fragile nature of the 'domestic'; exploring the relationships of self and constituent participants within the domestic situation and how 'roles' are defined and engaged ... read more

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Richard Checketts

PhD Reading

Ideas about materials in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe ... read more

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Joanne Crawford

BA, MA, PhD Leeds

French and American abstract art of the 1950s (specifically Rothko, Michaux and Wols), exploring how notions of death, as philosophical concept embedded within structures of aesthetics, informed production and subsequent 'readings' of abstract art ... read more

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Catherine Ferguson

BA, Manchester, MA, Chelsea, PhD Manchester Metropolitan ... read more

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Eva Frojmovic

BA Freiburg, MA, PhD Munich

Intersection between Jewish studies, art history and postcolonial and feminist thought ... read more

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Helen Graham

BA, MA and DPhil University of York

University Research Fellow in Tangible and Intangible Heritage ... read more

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Simon Lewandowski

MA Middlesex

History and contemporary practice of: kinetic art, electronica, interactivity, dead media/obsolete technologies, vernacular technologies in art practice, multiples, Art & Science, interventions, fine art film and new media, Eastern Europe ... read more

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Diane Morgan

BA Sussex/Berlin, MA, PhD Sussex

European enlightenment, particularly German culture, and modernism; 'cosmopolitics' (transnational identities, international law) ... read more

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Eric Prenowitz

PhD Paris 8

Deconstruction, psychoanalysis, sexual difference, poetics, 20th-c. comparative literature, theory and practice of translation ... read more

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Emma Rushton

BA Brighton, MA Royal College of Art, London

Collaborative projects focusing on particular locations and events to examine notions of public/civic space and ideas of belonging, community and place ... read more

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Marcel Swiboda

BA Warwick, MA, PhD Leeds

Philosophy of technics in relation to media, music and film, with a specific emphasis on the relationship between technics and critical culture .... read more

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Liz Watkins

BA Bradford, MA, PhD Leeds, PGCLTHE, Leeds

Feminism and the visual arts, film philosophy, the cinematic apparatus, achives and the materiality of film .... read more

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Mark Westgarth

BA Leeds, PGCHE Salford, MA Leeds, PhD Southampton

History and theory of museums and the history of the art market and histories of collecting, especially in relation to the agency of the dealer in the 19th century ... read more

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Henry Moore Post-Doctoral Fellow

Vacant

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Honorary Fellows

Anthony Hughes

BA London

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Benedict Read

BA Oxford and London, FSA

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Urszula Szulakowska

MA Oxon, PhD Sydney

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Claudine Mitchell

BA, PhD, Leeds LèsL, Paris X

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Visiting Lecturers

Penelope Curtis

BA Oxford, MA, PhD London

Relationship between historic and contemporary sculpture; sculpture and architecture in the inter-war period.

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Martina Droth

BA Camberwell, MA Goldsmiths, PhD Reading

Sculpture and decorative arts, especially nineteenth century British; artists' self-representation, developments in sculptural practice, artists' studios, the display of art in the domestic interior.

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Chris Evans

MFA Glasgow School of Art

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Pippa Hale

BA Leeds

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Kerry Harker

BA, MA Leeds

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John McDowall

MA Bradford

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Alexandra Parigoris

MA, PhD Courtauld Institute

European and American sculpture and cultural exchanges 1900-68 with particular expertise on Brancusi, Picasso and Gonzalez ... read more

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Jonathan Wood

BA York, MA, PhD Courtauld Institute

Twentieth-century and contemporary sculpture; with particular research expertise in the changing function of the studio, intersections between sculpture, photography and film, and the artist interview.

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Montague Burton Fellow in Jewish Studies

Annette Seidel-Arpaci

MA, PhD University of Leeds

‘Racial’ and ethnic identifications and representations of ‘race’ and ethnicity, resistances to/within regimes of ‘Othering’, and trauma and cultural memory in between competing narratives ... read more

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Leverhulme Research Fellow

Vacant

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Stanley Burton Scholarship Holder

Andrew Warstat

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School Manager

Robert Smith

LCGI, GCGI ... contact details

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School Secretary

Joanne Hartley

BA Salford, MA Leeds ... contact details

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School Secretarial Assistant

Giovanna Halliday

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Examinations and Assessment Administrator

Julie Briggs

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Postgraduate Team

Katie Powers

BA Essex, MA Leeds ... contact details

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Edd Mullins

BA Northumbria ... contact details

Jo Nassor

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Undergraduate Admissions Assistant

Matthew Robson

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Student Support and Reception Assistant

Alison Martin

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Student Support and Reception Assistant

Helga Mitterbacher

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Research Administrator

Katie Roche

BA Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, MA Trinity and All Saints ... contact details

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Learning and Teaching Administrator

Jenny Coupe

BSc Leeds ... contact details

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IT Officer

Vacant

 

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Studio & Exhibitions Technician

Peter Morton

BA Gwent College ... contact details

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Technician

David Sowerby

BA Coventry, MA Goldsmiths ... contact details

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