Research Forum
Associate Scholars
The Research Forum Associate Scholars form a group that mixes researchers at all stages of their careers and with different relationships to The Courtauld. It takes advantage of the presence of scholars in London as independent researchers or teachers on leave of absence from other institutions and of researchers who are affiliated with The Courtauld. In addition to being offered to researchers who are in London and who would like to be affiliated with The Courtauld as visiting scholars, invitations to join this group are extended to those holding externally awarded fellowships and temporary lecturers at The Courtauld.
The 2009-10 Associate Scholars are listed below, with a brief description of their current research and publications.
Deborah Babbage
Thomas Balfe
Jessica Berenbeim
Jessica Berenbeim is the 2009–11 Kress Fellow at the Courtauld Institute. Her Ph.D. thesis, for Harvard University, concerns the Sherborne Missal (produced c.1400) and the role of documentary literacy and legal consciousness in artistic representation. Her research interests include the history of book production, reading, and literacy; the history and art of monasticism; medieval historiography and conceptions of the past; and the relationship of bureaucracy and institutional history to developments in the visual arts. Publications include: ‘Script after Print: Juan de Yciar and the Art of Writing’ (forthcoming in Word & Image); ‘Milanese Chant in the Monastery?’ (co-authored; in Ambrosiana at Harvard, ed. by Thomas Forrest Kelly and Matthew Mugmon, 2009); and ‘An English Manuscript of the Somme le roi’ (in Cambridge Illuminations, ed. by Stella Panayotova, 2007).
Federico Botana
Federico Botana's research focuses on the relationship between visual culture and social practices in the Late Middle Ages. At present, he is completing a book on the representation of the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy in medieval Italy, and starting a research project on didactic uses of manuscript illustration in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Tuscany. In 2009 he was the Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow and the organiser of ‘Imaging Dogma, Picturing Belief.’ At these conference scholars from the UK, ten European countries, and the United States presented research on late-medieval mural cycles in parish churches and chapels across Europe. Since 2008 Federico has worked at The Courtauld and Birkbeck College as a visiting lecturer on Italian late-medieval and renaissance art. His 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 (Frankfurt, 2006)
Ben Burbridge
Amy de la Hay
Charlotte de Mille
Charlotte de Mille completed her doctoral thesis ‘Bergson in Britain c. 1890-1914’ in 2009. Current research activities include an exploration of the possibilities and limitations of intuition as a method for Art History though the work of Henri Bergson and Virginia Woolf with the Research Forum’s Writing Art History group. With the Research Forum and the RMA, Charlotte was convenor of Music and Modernism, held in May 2009, from which she will be editing a volume of essays. With Public Programmes for The Courtauld Gallery, she is co-ordinating a series of lecture-recitals that seek to draw together music and fine art, and has also commissioned new music in conjunction with The Courtauld’s East Wing VIII exhibition of contemporary visual art. Charlotte is Visiting Lecturer for the academic year 2009-2010.
Lucy Donkin
Anthony Gardner
Anthony Gardner 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.
Kate Grandjouan
Catherine Grant
Catherine Grant 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 current research builds on her PhD, which is being prepared for publication in various formats. She was the 2007 Research Forum Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art and is currently the coordinator for the Research Forum’s Writing Art History seminar group, as well as being a Teaching Fellow at the Slade School of Art and a Visiting Lecturer at The Courtauld. See profile page.
Chris Green
Jim Harris
Jim Harris has been a Visiting Lecturer at The Courtauld since 2009 and is the 2011 Andrew W Mellon Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow.
Since completing his PhD, Donatello's Polychromed Sculpture: Case Studies in Materials and Meaning in 2010, he has taught at Birkbeck and King's College (University of London) and has given research papers in Copenhagen and at the University of Kent.
In addition to sculptural polychromy, his research interests touch more broadly on sculptural techniques and on the relationship between theology and representation. He is a member of the Sculptural Processes research group and was Editor of immediations The Courtauld Postgraduate Research Journal in 2008 and 2009.
Jim has published on André Beauneveu, Northern polychromed sculpture, Florentine painting and contemporary drawing and is involved with the Public Programmes department at The Courtauld. He is also a Director of the contemporary gallery Man and Eve, where he recently curated In Place: new collage works by Sarah Bridgland.
More information concerning Jim's research can be found on his Research Forum Profile page and on the Courtauld VLE.
Melena Hope
Melena Hope completed her PhD, entitled 'Painted Domestic Chapels and Oratories in the Households of Fifteenth-Century France,' at The Courtauld Institute of Art in January 2009. Since 2008 she has been the Bob McCarthy Post-Doctoral Fellow, working in collaboration with the Conway Library at The Courtauld. Part of the fellowship is devoted to a research and digitisation project aiming to catalogue and make available over 4,000 images of wall paintings. In addition to her work on this image collection, she is also undertaking two personal research projects which investigate examples of fifteenth-century mural decoration in French chapels. While her specific interests centre around religious wall paintings in domestic and other 'private' settings, she is more broadly interested in the function and audience of devotional art, the relationship between artworks of different media (especially the interplay between works of art and their architectural settings), and artistic culture in Northern Europe in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She is a visiting lecturer at The Courtauld (since 2007) and the University of Kent, and has taught at Birkbeck College.
Wendy Ikemoto
Wendy Ikemoto is the 2009-2011 Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art. 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. Ikemoto 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.
Carol Jacobi
Klara Kemp-Welch
Klara Kemp-Welch is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at The Courtauld for 2009-12. She is researching artistic exchange between the countries of the former Soviet ‘bloc’ and former Yugoslavia by initiating a project titled Festivals and Friendships: Networking the ‘bloc.’ The aim of this three year project is to collect and to compare artists’ stories and memories of the years 1956-1991, and to establish how ideas and information were conveyed across borders in the late socialist period. Klara is currently also completing the manuscript of a book titled Not Playing Politics: Anti-Heroism in Central European Art 1965-1989. She has published reviews, articles in journals, and catalogue essays on political aspects of modern and contemporary art. These include studies of work by Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Beres, Endre Tót, and Sanja Ivekovic. See profile page.
Ayla Lepine
A Visiting Lecturer at The Courtauld this year, Ayla Lepine is completing a PhD with Caroline Arscott. Titled ‘Sacred Beauty: George Frederick Bodley’s Designs for Oxford and Cambridge, 1858-1907’, her thesis research investigates points of intersection between the Gothic Revival and Victorian theology. She has lectured widely and currently teaches courses on nineteenth-century architecture and on gender and subjectivity in Victorian painting. In collaboration with Laura Cleaver, she is co-convenor of the Research Forum conference, ‘Gothic and its Legacies’, held in December 2009. Her forthcoming publications explore music and architecture in Victorian Cambridge, and sculpture and the gothic impulse at Washington National Cathedral. She works with Public Programmes at The Courtauld Gallery and is a historic buildings researcher for Donald Insall Associates. Ayla is the curator of Threads of Heaven: Ten Centuries of English Ecclesiastical Textiles, a major exhibition which will take place at St Paul’s Cathedral in autumn 2011.
Caroline Levitt
Caroline Levitt specialises in French art and literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; she completed her PhD on the relationship between Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton as manifested through their involvement and interest in artistic practices such as graffiti, illustration, cinema and the collection and construction of objects. Her article ‘Screening poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton and experimental cinema’ appeared in the 2008 issue of Immediations. Over the next year, Caroline plans to develop interests emerging from her doctoral research, in particular her work on Le Corbusier, which she hopes will form the basis of a book. Other research interests include collaborations between artists, writers and craftsmen and the relationships between literature and sculpture. Caroline is a visiting lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art. See profile page.
Silvia Loreti
Francesco Lucchini
See profile page.
Charlotte Martin de Fonjaudran
Maria Mileeva
Alister Mill
John Milner
See profile page.
B.D. Nandadeva
Bronwyn Ormsby
Francesca Piqué
Stephanie Porras
Clare Richardson
Kate Stonor
Glenn 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 during the academic year 2010/11, he will be 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).
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Lisa Tickner
See profile page.
Sibylla Tringham
Charles Velson Horie
Giles Waterfield
Giles Waterfield is an independent curator and writer, Associate Scholar at The Courtauld Institute of Art and Director of Royal Collection Studies. He taught The Courtauld's M.A. in the History and Theory of The Art Museum, and has worked as Head of Education at the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums and as Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery from 1979 to 1996. He was joint curator of the exhibition Art Treasures of England at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1998, In Celebration: The Art of the Country House at the Tate Gallery in 1998 and Below Stairs, National Portrait Galleries, London and Edinburgh, in 2003-4. He is an authority on the history of museums and his publications include: Palaces of Art, Art for the People and Soane and Death, as well as three novels. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, a Vice-President of NADFAS and Trustee of Charleston, Sussex.