Our first-rate academic staff are dedicated to providing you with an exciting and challenging experience as you discover the history of art from antiquity to the present. The Courtauld has a teaching staff of about 30, including six conservation teachers, 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
Professor in the History of Art

Rebecca Arnold
Senior Lecturer in History of Dress & Textiles

Professor Sussan Babaie
Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam; Graduate Diploma Programme Coordinator

Dr Jessica Barker
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History

Professor Alixe Bovey, FSA FRHistS
Dean and Deputy Director

Dr Lucy Bradnock
Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art and Vice-Dean for Research

Professor Martin Caiger-Smith
Head of MA Curating the Art Museum

Dr Esther Chadwick
Lecturer in Art History

Indie A. Choudhury
Lecturer

Professor David Peters Corbett
Professor of American Art and Director of the Centre for American Art

Professor Antony Eastmond
AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art

Dr Catherine Grant
Reader and Vice-Dean for Education

Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
Reader in 20th Century Modernism

Dr Caroline Levitt
Senior Lecturer; Head of History of Art Department

Sujatha Meegama
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Art History

Professor Susie Nash
Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art

Dr Scott Nethersole
Reader in Italian Renaissance Art, 1400-1500

Dr Tom Nickson
Reader in Medieval Art & Architecture

Professor Gavin Parkinson
Professor in Modern Art

Professor Dorothy Price
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History

Dr Guido Rebecchini
Associate Dean for Students (2019-2021) and Reader in Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art

Dr Robin Schuldenfrei
Tangen Reader in 20th-century Modernism

Professor Katie Scott
Professor in the History of Art

Dr Devika Singh
Senior Lecturer in Curating

Christine Stevenson
Professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture

Dr Wenny Teo
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art

Dr Stephen Whiteman
Reader in the Art and Architecture of China

Professor Sarah Wilson
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

Dr Feixuan Xu
Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow

Conservation Department
Pippa Balch
Lecturer, Conservation and Technology

Professor Aviva Burnstock
Professor of Conservation

Maureen Cross
Senior Lecturer, Department of Conservation

Dr Pia Gottschaller
Senior Lecturer

Emily Howe
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Painting

Dr Austin Nevin, FIIC
Head of Conservation

Clare Richardson, FIIC
Senior lecturer, Conservation

Dr Jane Spooner
Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Paintings

Sophie Stewart
Sibylla Tringham
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Painting and PhD Student

Lori Wong
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Senior Lecturer in Conservation

Research Fellows
Dr Bergit Arends
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Zoë Dostal
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow
Dr Mads Vedel Heilskov
Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting Fellow, 2021-22)

Matthew Holman
Centre for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow (2022-23)

Kateryna Kublytska
Samuel H. Kress Foundation Visiting Fellow

Wenjie Su
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow
Dr Rachel Warriner
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Linzhi Zhang
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Associate Lecturers
Dr Thomas Balfe
Associate Lecturer

Dr Irene Brooke
Lecturer in Renaissance Art
Elizaveta Butakova
Associate Lecturer
Dr Jasmine K Chohan
Associate Lecturer

Dr Emily Christensen
Associate Lecturer

Alice David
PhD Student

Samuel Dawson
PhD student

Tom Day
Lecturer in the History of Art

Dr. Nicholas Flory
Associate Lecturer

Inga Fraser
Associate Lecturer

Dr Barbara Furlotti
Associate Lecturer

Sophie Xiaofei Guo
Associate Lecturer; PhD student

Dr Lydia Hansell
Associate Lecturer in Medieval Art History

Amanda Hilliam
Associate Lecturer

Dr Thomas Hughes
Associate Lecturer

Susannah Kingwill
PhD student; Associate Lecturer

Dr Teresa Lane
Head of the Courtauld Graduate Diploma and Associate Lecturer

Dr Helen Lewandowski
Associate Lecturer

Kyle Leyden
PhD student; Associate Lecturer

Dr Emma Merkling
Associate Lecturer and Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Maria Mileeva
Associate Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Art

Dr Charlotte de Mille
Associate Lecturer

Dr Ana-Maria Milčić
Associate Lecturer

Giulia Morale
PhD student

Dr Natasha Morris
Associate Lecturer

Dr Natalia Murray
Associate Lecturer

Dr Ben Pollitt
Lecturer in the History of Art

Bella Radenovic
PhD student; Associate Lecturer

Margaret Squires
PhD student

Frances Varley
PhD Student, Associate Lecturer

Scott Wakeham
Latin language teacher

Dr Rose Walker
Honorary Research Fellow

Dr Joanna Weddell
Associate Lecturer

Dr Shijia Yu
Associate Lecturer

Mariana Zegianini
Associate Lecturer
