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.
Academic staff
Professor Jo Applin
Professor in the History of Art

Rebecca Arnold
Senior Lecturer in History of Dress & Textiles

Professor Caroline Arscott
Professor of 19th-century British Art

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

Pippa Balch
Lecturer, Conservation and Technology

Dr Thomas Balfe
Associate Lecturer

Dr Jessica Barker
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History

Professor Alixe Bovey, FSA FRHistS
Dean and Deputy Director; Head of Research

Professor Aviva Burnstock
Professor of Conservation

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

Dr Esther Chadwick
Lecturer in Art History

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

Maureen Cross
Lecturer, Conservation and Technology

Tom Day
Lecturer in the History of Art

Professor Antony Eastmond
AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art History

Dr Pia Gottschaller, FRSA
Senior Lecturer

Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
Reader in 20th Century Modernism

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

Dr Emily Mann
Lecturer in Early Modern Art

Professor Susie Nash
Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art

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

Dr Austin Nevin, FIIC
Head of Conservation

Dr Tom Nickson
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art & Architecture

Professor Gavin Parkinson
Professor in Modern Art

Dr Ben Pollitt
Lecturer in the History of 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

Clare Richardson
Lecturer, Conservation and Technology

Dr Robin Schuldenfrei
Tangen Reader in 20th-century Modernism

Professor Katie Scott
Professor in the History of Art

Professor Julian Stallabrass
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

Christine Stevenson
Professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture

Professor Deborah Swallow
Märit Rausing Director

Dr Wenny Teo
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art

Sibylla Tringham
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Painting and PhD Student

Dr Stephen Whiteman
Senior Lecturer, Art and Architecture of China; Head, Research Degrees Programme

Tom Wilkinson
Lecturer in the History of Art

Professor Sarah Wilson
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

Professor Joanna Woodall
Professor in the History of Art

Research Fellows
Dr Bergit Arends
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Alice Butler
Centre for American Art Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Mads Vedel Heilskov
Carlsberg Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow (Visiting Fellow, 2021-22)

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

Dr Linzhi Zhang
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Associate Lecturers
Dr Irene Brooke
Lecturer in Renaissance Art
Dr Barbara Furlotti
Associate Lecturer

Dr Albert Godetzky
Associate Lecturer

Lydia Hansell
PhD student; Associate Lecturer

Dr Thomas Hughes
Associate Lecturer

Susannah Kingwill
PhD student; Associate Lecturer

Teresa Lane
PhD student; Associate Lecturer

Kyle Leyden
PhD student; Associate Lecturer

Dr Emma Merkling
Associate Lecturer and Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for American Art

Dr Maria Mileeva
Lecturer in Russian Art

Dr Charlotte de Mille
Associate Lecturer

Natasha Morris
PhD student; Associate Lecturer

Dr Natalia Murray
Associate Lecturer

Dr Oliver O'Donnell
Associate Lecturer

Anna Opara
Associate Lecturer, Dutch language teacher

Dr Josepha Richard
Associate Lecturer

Dr Moran Sheleg
Associate Lecturer

Scott Wakeham
Latin language teacher

Mariana Zegianini
Associate Lecturer
