Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow ( Research Activities Coordinator)

 

Francesco Lucchini

Francesco Lucchini was the 2010 Research Forum Fellow.  He read Philosophy at the University of Milan, before coming to The Courtauld where he took his MA in Early Sienese Painting (2003) and completed his PhD thesis (2009) ‘Objects at work: A material and cultural history of the reliquaries of St. Anthony of Padua in the Basilica del Santo, ca 1231-1438’. During the course of his fellowship he led the research project The Material Life of Things and organised the Frank Davis Memorial lectures for 2010.  He has been Visiting Lecturer at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and at The Courtauld.  From 1 April 2011 he will hold a two year Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the Department of History of Art, University of Warwick.

 

Federico Botana

Federico Botana was the 2009 Research Forum Fellow. He completed his PhD at the Courtauld Institute in 2008. His research focuses on the relationship between visual culture and social practices in the Late Middle Ages. He is currently completing a book on the representation of the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy in medieval Italy.  His previous publications include: ‘Virtuous and Sinful Uses of Temporal Wealth in the Breviari d’Amor of Matfre Ermengaud,’ Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, LXVII (2004); ‘Like the Members of a Body: Assisting the Poor in Matfre Ermengaud’s Breviari d’Amor,’ in Armut und Armenfürsorge in der italienischen Stadkultur zwischen 13. und 16. Jarhunderts, edited by Philine Helas and Gerhard Wolf (Frankfurt, 2006).   



Judith Batalion
Judith Batalion was the 2008 Research Forum Fellow. She completed her PhD, entitled 'Mad Mothers, Fast Friends, and Twisted Sisters: Women's Collaborations in the Visual Arts (1970-2000)' in 2007. Judith's research interests include creative collaboration, representations of domesticity, feminist performance art, the history of friendship, humour, and the relationships between science and art. At the time of her fellowship, she was editing a collection of writing about comedy audiences.



Catherine Grant

Catherine Grant was the 2007 Research Forum Fellow. She completed her PhD, entitled Different Girls: performances of adolescence in contemporary photographic portraits at the Courtauld Institute in 2006. Her research interests include the representation of adolescence and femininity in photography, the theorisation of spectatorship and identification in relation to the photographic portrait, and the intersection between queer theory and feminism. Her research as postdoctoral fellow built on her PhD, focusing on the importance of gesture in the photographic portrait, the relationship between the painted and photographic portrait, and the differing depictions of female adolescence from the Victorian period to the present day.


Douglas Brine

Douglas Brine was the 2006 Research Forum Fellow. In 2007-08, he was Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. He completed his PhD, entitled Piety and Purgatory: wall-mounted memorials from the southern Netherlands, c.1380-c.1520, at the Courtauld Institute in 2006, which he revised for publication during his fellowship in Washington. His research, on Jan van Eyck and his legacy, formed the subject of the graduate seminar he taught at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.



John-Paul Stonard

John-Paul Stonard was the first Research Forum Fellow in 2004-5. He is an independent art historian and Contributing Editor of the Burlington Magazine, London. His book, Fault Lines. Art in Germany 1945-55 was published in 2007. He is currently writing a book about the painter Ernst-Wilhelm Nay, and conducting ongoing research into the work of Oskar Schlemmer. He is also currently editing a series of articles, commissioned from leading art historians, re-reviewing major art historical publications of the twentieth century.




Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellowship (Mellon M.A.)

 

Anthony Gardner

Anthony Gardner was the 2010-11 Research FOrum Postdoctoral Fellow (Mellon MA).  He received his doctorate from the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, in 2009. Titled Politically Unbecoming: Critiques of “Democracy” and Postsocialist Art from Europe, this dissertation examined the persistence of alternative and dissident aesthetic politics in Europe from the 1970s to the 2000s, spanning the work of Ilya Kabakov, Christoph Büchel, Gianni Motti, Lia Perjovschi and other artists. His writing has most recently appeared in Third Text, Postcolonial Studies and The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, as well as Crossing Cultures (ed. J. Anderson) and the reader for the 2010 SCAPE biennial in Christchurch (ed. B. French). Anthony is currently developing a book-length study of biennialisation with Prof. Charles Green for the publishers Wiley-Blackwell and, with Dr Klara Kemp-Welch, will co-chair a session at the 2011 Association of Art Historians conference on Post-Socialist Prospects and Contemporary Communisms in Art History.

 

Stephanie Schwartz

Stephanie Schwartz was the 2009-10 Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow (Mellon M.A.) Stephanie Schwartz recently completed a two-year term as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Theory of Photography at Bryn Mawr College. She received her doctoral degree from the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University in 2007. Her dissertation, The Crime of Cuba: Urbanism, Photography, and the Geopolitics of Americanization, which developed an interdisciplinary framework for examining the relationship between modern aesthetic practices and the politics of decolonization, was nominated for a Bancroft Dissertation Award. In addition to writing Cuba Per Diem: Walker Evans and American Photographs, a book-length study of Evans’s 1933 Cuba portfolio, Stephanie is developing a new project on contemporary Cuban photography.

 

Charlie Miller

Charlie Miller was the 2008-09 Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow (Mellon M.A.).  Charlie received his PhD from the Courtauld in 2006 for The Ambivalent Eye: Picasso 1925-1933. From 2005 to 2007 he was research fellow at the AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies, University of Essex. He published three pieces, 'Apocalypse', 'Archaeology' and 'Pablo Picasso', in Ades and Baker, eds., Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS (Hayward Gallery and MIT Press, 2006), winner of the Art Newspaper & AXA Art Exhibition Catalogue Award. He is editor of 'The Use-Value of Documents', a special issue of the Papers of Surrealism (Autumn 2007), to which he has contributed a critical 'Introduction', an article entitled 'Bataille with Picasso: Crucifixion and Apocalypse', and a translation of an essay by Georges Didi-Huberman. His general research areas are the production and reception of Picasso, and the history and theory of the avant-garde. During his fellowship at the Courtauld, he worked on articles and a book about Picasso and surrealism. A second book project concerns avant-garde (ab)uses of history.



terra foundation for american art teaching fellow

 

Wendy Ikemoto

Wendy Ikemoto was the Terra Foundation for American art Teaching Fellow for 2009-11.  She completed her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2009.  Her dissertation examined paired, or pendant, painting in the antebellum United States.  She is currently working on the book manuscript of her dissertation and developing a study of American art in the Pacific world in the 19th and early-20th centuries.  Her article Putting the ‘Rip’ in ‘Rip Van Winkle’: Historical Absence in John Quidor’s Pendant Paintings, was published in the summer 2009 issue of American Art.

 


Wingate Scholar 2010-2011

 

Glenn SujoGlenn Sujo

Glenn Sujo completed formal studies in fine art and the history of art at the Slade School of Art (Dip FA) and Courtauld Institute of Art (MA, PhD 2010). As a recipient of a Wingate Scholarship he spent the academic year 2010/11 preparing his doctoral thesis on the life and work of Auschwitz survivor Yehuda Bacon, Disseminating Memory: Lines Across an Abyss, for publication. Since the demise of the Cold War and the opening-up of Second World War archives in Central and Eastern Europe, Sujo has undertaken original research into the subject of the ‘Imagination in Internment’ and curated several major exhibitions including: Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory, Imperial War Museum, London (2001), Artists Witness the Shoah, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (1995) and On the Track of Tyranny, Wiener Library, London (1983). As Paul Mellon Research Fellow, Sujo has contributed actively to the recovery of drawing language in art polemics and higher education, through practice-led research, exhibitions of his own work, publications and curatorial assignments including: Drawing on these Shores, A View of British Drawing and its Affinities (Bath and Brighton Festivals). He is a founding member of faculty at the Prince’s Drawing School and convenor of the Drawing Symposium (2003-08) and the mind-spirit-body-matter: drawn to the human workshop at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge (June 2010). A recent study of the sketchbooks and process works of Polish émigré Jankel Adler will form the basis of an extended book and exhibition on the artist (in preparation).

 


Courtauld Institute of Art/Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art/Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte Pre-Doctoral Fellow


Hannah Williams

Hannah Williams was the 2008 Pre-Doctoral Fellow at the Centre Allemand de l'Histoire de l'Art in Paris, where she is researching aspects of eighteenth-century French visual culture. Hannah is a doctoral student at the Courtauld Institute working with Katie Scott on a thesis entitled Self-Portraiture and Representations of the Artist in Eighteenth-Century France. Hannah's research interests include visual theories of self-representation, issues of subjectivity and inter-subjectivity in portraiture, art and anthropology, and painting and phenomenology. She is Secretary of the Student Members' Committee of the Association of Art Historians.