Teresa Lane is head of the Courtauld Diploma in History of Art (CGDHA) and is herself a graduate of the programme (2015).
Teresa joined The Courtauld after careers as an employment solicitor at a City law firm and as an editor at a legal publishing firm. Following completion of the CGDHA, she completed an MA in Medieval art and then commenced PhD research supported by CHASE funding. She submitted her PhD thesis in 2022.
Teresa is an Associate Lecturer at The Courtauld and a specialist in Medieval art, with interests in the depiction of the divine and the interrelationships between image and text. Her research spans manuscripts, sculpture, wall and panel painting and goldsmiths’ work, with a focus on the role of images and objects in religious devotion.
She is a also guest lecturer at the Victoria & Albert Museum, lecturing on the Early Medieval (300-1250) year course. In April-May 2024 she co-taught ‘Medieval Women: Myth and Reality’.
Education
2016 – 2022 The Courtauld Institute of Art, PhD candidate
2015-2016 The Courtauld Institute of Art, MA History of Art (Making and Meaning in the Art of the Middle Ages, Distinction)
2014-2015 The Courtauld Institute of Art, Graduate Diploma in the History of Art
1995 The College of Law, Common Professional Examination and Legal Practice Course
1990 University of Exeter, BA (Hons) English Literature and Medieval Studies
Teaching
- Autumn 2023 – July 2024, The Courtauld, Special Option Course Tutor, MA ‘Miniature to Monumental: Encounters with Medieval Art’
- Spring 2024, The Courtauld, Associate Lecturer, Approaches: ‘Embodiments: The Body as Subject and Object in Medieval Art’
- Autumn 2022, The Courtauld, Associate Lecturer, ‘Medieval Sculpture in London Collections’
- Spring 2021, The Courtauld, Associate Lecturer, ‘Medieval Cities’
- Autumn 2020, The Courtauld, Associate Lecturer, ‘Image Making and the Medieval Imagination’
- Spring 2020, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Associate Lecturer, “Art, Travel and Imagination in the Middle Ages
- Autumn 2018, The Courtauld, Associate Lecturer, ‘Case Studies in Gothic Art: Intention and Reception’
- Autumn 2017, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Teaching Assistant, Foundations Module (The Middle Ages)
Other academic activities
- Co-organiser of CHASE-sponsored Material Witness workshops (an interdisciplinary training programme for the interrogation of physical objects in the digital age)
- Co-organiser, 24th Annual Medieval Postgraduate Student Colloquium, Courtauld Institute of Art, “Scaling the Middle Ages: Size and Scale in Medieval Art”
- Co-editor-in-chief, immediations, Volume 4, Number 3, 2018
- Co-convenor of the Courtauld’s medieval student work-in-progress seminars, 2017–2018
- Editorial board, immediations, Volume 4, Number 2, 2017