Sarah Victoria Turner is Deputy Director for Research at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, as well as Visiting Senior Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was previously a lecturer in the Department of History of Art at the University of York. Sarah’s research interests encompass many aspects of British art from 1850 to 1950 and she has published her work in exhibition catalogues, academic publications and online. In 2018, she will co-curate a major exhibition with Mark Hallett at the Royal Academy in London to mark 250 years of the Academy’s Summer Exhibitions. Sarah was recently named one of Apollo magazine’s ‘40 Under 40’ inspirational people in the European art world. She is co-editor of British Art Studies, an open-access online journal. She is the co-founder of the ‘Enchanted Modernities: Theosophy, Modernism and the Arts c. 1875-1960 ‘Research Network, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and ‘Internationalism and Cultural Exchange c.1880-1920’, which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Additional Interests

Current Teaching

• MA 2017-18, Making the Modern: art and visual culture in Britain 1890-1970