The Courtauld has a teaching staff of more than 40 world-class scholars, covering a broad spectrum of the history of art and architecture. While they have a wide range of approaches to the study of the history of art, all share a commitment to the close examination of individual works. The teaching of the BA programme also helps students to engage with broader issues of theory and methodology. All students are allocated a Personal Tutor to assist them throughout the degree, and who usually provides the first point of contact for academic and personal issues. Students also have access to an Academic Support Tutor who can help with time management, research skills, reading techniques and other study skills. Further help with essay writing is provided by two Royal Literary Fund Fellows. The Fellows are published authors who offer students help with all aspects of writing, and do so in a friendly and confidential fashion.
Director
History of Art Department
Professor Jo Applin
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art
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Professor Sussan Babaie
Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam
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Dr Jessica Barker
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History
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Professor Alixe Bovey, FSA FRHistS
Executive Dean and Deputy Director
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Dr Lucy Bradnock
Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art and Dean for Research
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Professor Martin Caiger-Smith
Head of MA Curating the Art Museum
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Dr Esther Chadwick
Lecturer in Art History
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Indie A. Choudhury
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
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Professor David Peters Corbett
Professor of American Art
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Professor Antony Eastmond
AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art
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Dr Johanna Gosse
Lecturer in Lens and Time-Based Art Histories
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Dr Catherine Grant
Reader and Dean for Education
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Dr Felix Jäger
Lecturer in Early Modern Art and Material Cultures
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Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
Reader in 20th Century Modernism
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Dr Caroline Levitt
Senior Lecturer; Head of History of Art Department
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Dr Kyle Leyden
Lecturer in Early Modern Architecture
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Sujatha Meegama
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Art History
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Dr Maria Mileeva
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
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Professor Susie Nash
Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art
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Dr Tom Nickson
Reader in Medieval Art & Architecture
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Professor Gavin Parkinson
Professor in European Modernism
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Professor Dorothy Price
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History
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Professor Guido Rebecchini
Associate Dean for Students (2019-2021) and Professor of Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art
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Dr Robin Schuldenfrei
Tangen Reader in 20th-century Modernism
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Dr Devika Singh
Senior Lecturer in Curating
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Dr Wenny Teo
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
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Dr Stephen Whiteman
Reader in the Art and Architecture of China
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Professor Sarah Wilson
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art
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Dr Meredyth Winter
Lecturer in Early Islamic Arts
Dr Feixuan Xu
Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr Tom Young
Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art Histories
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Conservation Department
Silvia Rita Amato
Conservation Scientist, Department of Conservation
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Pippa Balch
Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Easel Paintings
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Dr Donatella Banti
Professor Aviva Burnstock
Professor of Conservation
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Maureen Cross
Senior Lecturer, Department of Conservation
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Dr Pia Gottschaller
Reader in Technical Art History
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Emily Howe
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Painting
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Professor Austin Nevin
Head of Conservation
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Clare Richardson, FIIC
Head of MA/PGdip Easel Painting Conservation and Deputy Head of Department, Conservation
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Dr Jane Spooner
Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Paintings
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Sibylla Tringham
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Paintings
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Lori Wong
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Senior Lecturer in Conservation
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Research Fellows
Dr Bergit Arends
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr Helena Vilalta Conesa
Centre for the Art of the Americas Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-24
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Zoë Dostal
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow
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Wenjie Su
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow
Samantha Truman
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow
Dr Feixuan Xu
Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr Linzhi Zhang
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
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Associate Lecturers
Dr Irene Brooke
Lecturer in Renaissance Art
Dr Emily Christensen
Associate Lecturer
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Samuel Dawson
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Flora Dunster
Associate Lecturer
Lily Evans-Hill
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Giosuè Fabiano
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Freya Field-Donovan
Associate Lecturer
Lorenzo Gatta
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Ferren Gipson
Associate Lecturer
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Madeleine Harrison
Associate Lecturer. Centre for the Art of the Americas Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-19
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Junyao He
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Yung-Fang Hsu
Associate Lecturer
Dr Nicola Jennings
Associate Lecturer
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Sophie-May Johnson
Associate Lecturer
Carla Kessler
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Susannah Kingwill
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Dr Elizabeth Kutesko
Associate Lecturer
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Dr Teresa Lane
Head of the Courtauld Graduate Diploma; Associate Lecturer
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Dr Charlotte de Mille
Associate Lecturer
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Dr Ana-Maria Milčić
Associate Lecturer
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Dr Henning von Mirbach
Associate Lecturer
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Giulia Morale
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Dr Natalia Murray
Associate Lecturer
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Carole Nataf
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Dr Oliver O'Donnell
Associate Lecturer
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Rose Pickering
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Dr Ben Pollitt
Lecturer in the History of Art
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Meitao Qu
Associate Lecturer
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Damiët Schneeweisz
Associate Lecturer; PhD Candidate
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Fred Shan
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Harvey Shepherd
Associate Lecturer
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Daisy Silver
Associate Lecturer
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Margaret Squires
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer
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Claudia Di Tosto
Associate Lecturer
Dr Frances Varley
Associate Lecturer
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Dr Lucy Whelan
Associate Lecturer
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Professors Emeriti
Professor Caroline Arscott
Professor Emerita
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Professor Joanna Cannon
Professor Emerita
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Professor Robin Cormack
Professor Emeritus
Professor Eric Fernie
Professor Emeritus
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Professor Christopher Green
Professor Emeritus
Professor Paul Hills
Professor Emeritus
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Professor John Lowden, FBA
Professor Emeritus
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Professor David Park
Professor Emeritus
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Professor Aileen Ribeiro
Professor Emerita
Professor Katie Scott
Professor in the History of Art
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Professor David Solkin, FBA
Professor Emeritus
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Professor Christine Stevenson
Professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture
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Professor Deborah Swallow
Professor Emerita
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Professor Joanna Woodall
Professor Emerita
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