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
Professor Sussan Babaie
Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam
Dr Jessica Barker
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History
Professor Alixe Bovey, FSA FRHistS
Professor of Medieval Art History
Dr Lucy Bradnock
Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art and Dean for Research
Robert Brennan
Lecturer in Italian Art 1300-1500
Dr Esther Chadwick
Senior Lecturer in History of Art
Dr Indie A. Choudhury
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
Dr Stephanie Dieckvoss
Senior Lecturer in Art History
Professor Antony Eastmond
AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art
Professor Steve Edwards
Manton Professor of British Art and Director of the Manton Centre for British Art
Dr Johanna Gosse
Lecturer in Lens and Time-Based Art Histories
Dr Sofia Gotti
Lecturer in Curating
Dr. Sarah Grandin
Lecturer in the Arts of Early Modern France
Dr Catherine Grant
Reader and Vice-Dean for Education
Dr Felix Jäger
Lecturer in Early Modern Art and Material Cultures
Professor Klara Kemp-Welch
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Head of Research Degrees 2025-28
Dr Teresa Lane
Head of the Courtauld Graduate Diploma; Lecturer
Dr Caroline Levitt
Senior Lecturer
Dr Kyle Leyden
Lecturer in Early Modern Architecture
Sujatha Meegama
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Art History
Dr Maria Mileeva
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
Dr Natalia Murray
Lecturer in Modern Art and Curating
Professor Susie Nash
Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art
Professor Lynda Nead
Visiting Professor of History of Art
Dr Tom Nickson
Reader in Medieval Art & Architecture
Professor Gavin Parkinson
Professor in European Modernism
Professor David Peters Corbett
Professor of American Art
Professor Dorothy Price FBA
Executive Dean and Deputy Director, and Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History
Professor Guido Rebecchini
Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Art
Professor Robin Schuldenfrei
Tangen Professor in 20th Century Modernism
Dr Devika Singh
Senior Lecturer in Curating
Tom Stammers
Reader in Art and Cultural History
Dr Wenny Teo
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art
Professor Stephen Whiteman
Professor of the Art and Architecture of China
Professor Sarah Wilson
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art
Dr Meredyth Winter
Lecturer in Early Islamic Arts
Dr Tom Young
Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art Histories
Conservation Department
Silvia Rita Amato
Conservation Scientist, Department of Conservation
Pippa Balch
Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Easel Paintings
Dr Donatella Banti
Daphne Jackson Research Fellow
Professor Aviva Burnstock
Professor of Conservation
Maureen Cross
Senior Lecturer, Department of Conservation
Dr Nathan Daly
Conservation Scientist
Dr Pia Gottschaller
Reader in Technical Art History
Laura Hinde
Studio Supervisor in the Conservation of Easel Paintings
Emily Howe
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Painting & Project Lead, National Wall Paintings Survey
Denise Invamoto
Fieldwork Supervisor in Conservation of Wall Paintings
Sky-Lyn Munoz
GoGreen Research Fellow
Elisabeth Petrina
Studio Supervisor, Conservation of Easel Paintings
Dr Lan Pu
Associate lecturer
Clare Richardson, FIIC
Head of Conservation
Dr Jane Spooner
Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Paintings
Sibylla Tringham
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Paintings
Research Fellows
Zoë Dostal
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow
Dr Amanda Caterina Leong
Mongol Connections Getty Postdoctoral Fellow
Dr Annabella Mei Massey
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Wenjie Su
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow
Sam Truman
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow
Dr Yayu Zheng
Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow
Teaching Fellows
Dr Bergit Arends
Teaching Fellow
Dr Will Atkin
Teaching Fellow
Jacob Badcock
Teaching Fellow
Dr George Bartlett
Teaching Fellow
Ann Coxon
Teaching Fellow
Dr Alice David
Teaching Fellow
Dr Lily Evans-Hill
Teaching Fellow
Jessica Gasson
Teaching Fellow
Georgia Gerson
Teaching Fellow
Dr Lydia Hansell
Teaching Fellow
Katerina Harris
Teaching Fellow
Dr Carla Kessler
Teaching Fellow
Dr Amanda Caterina Leong
Mongol Connections Getty Postdoctoral Fellow
Kexin Ma
Teaching Fellow
Luke Naessens
Teaching Fellow
Maeve O'Donnell
Teaching Fellow
Dr Rose Pickering
Teaching Fellow
Margaret Squires
Teaching Fellow
Leili Sreberny-Mohammadi
Teaching Fellow
Dr Joanna Wolfarth
Teaching Fellow
Dr Yayu Zheng
Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow
Associate Lecturers
Rachel Alban
PhD student, Associate Lecturer
Alex Bispham
PhD Student, Associate Lecturer
Kitty Brandon-James
PhD Candidate, Associate Lecturer
Helen Dejean
PhD student, Associate Lecturer
Alice Dodds
PhD Candidate, Associate Lecturer
Sophia Dumoulin
PhD Student, Associate Lecturer
Rada Georgieva
PhD Student, Associate Lecturer
Laura Marie Feigen
PhD Student, Associate Lecturer
Emma Iadanza
PhD Student, Associate Lecturer
Abigail Provan
Associate Lecturer
Bethany Claus Widick
PhD student, Associate Lecturer
Haoyang Zhao
Associate Lecturer
Professors Emeriti
Professor Caroline Arscott
Professor Emerita
Professor Martin Caiger-Smith
Professor Emeritus
Professor Joanna Cannon
Professor Emerita
Professor Robin Cormack
Professor Emeritus
Professor Eric Fernie
Professor Emeritus
Professor Christopher Green
Professor Emeritus
Professor Paul Hills
Professor Emeritus
Professor John Lowden, FBA
Professor Emeritus
Professor David Park
Professor Emeritus
Professor Aileen Ribeiro
Professor Emerita
Professor Katie Scott
Professor in the History of Art
Professor David Solkin, FBA
Professor Emeritus
Professor Christine Stevenson
Professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture
Professor Deborah Swallow
Professor Emerita
Professor Joanna Woodall
Professor Emerita