Emily Abney
Emily Abney is an art historian and writer with a speciality in the art of the Italian Renaissance. She completed her MA in Italian Renaissance art at the Courtauld in 2025. Throughout her MA studies and previous undergraduate work in Italy, the Netherlands, and the United States, she worked in and with museum curatorial departments, assisting with exhibition development and execution, as well as writing independent reviews for exhibitions at the Bonnefanten Museum, RISD Museum, University College Maastricht, and the Worcester Art Museum.
Alex Bispham
Alex Bispham is a PhD student at the Courtauld researching alternative spirituality and queerness in contemporary art. As a technical art historian, she is seeking to define a queer theory of materials. She works on spiritual and artistic practitioners that disrupt perceived hierarchies of matter/idea, reason/emotion, and high/low art. She has previously held positions at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, and Hôtel Drouot.
Alice Dodds
Alice Dodds is an AHRC-CHASE funded PhD candidate at the Courtauld. Broadly interested in ecocriticism and environmentalism in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century England, her doctoral research centres on how women thought about the future through their artistic engagements with the natural world. She has been editor-in-cheif of Immediations since 2024, and also holds a BA (2022) and MA (2023) from the Courtauld.
Amy Elder
Amy Elder is a recent MA graduate in the History of Art at the Courtauld, where she studied ‘Postwar Black British Art 1945-Now’ under the supervision of Dr Indie A. Choudhury. Her research has centred around the work of Black and Asian British women artists, with particular focus on the work of Lubaina Himid, Sonia Boyce,
Chila Kumari Burman, and Marlene Smith. She is especially interested in the roles of archival initiatives and curatorial practices in artists’ work.
Orlando Giannini
Orlando Giannini is a published songwriter based between London and Los Angeles, and a distinctive voice within the emerging contemporary art scene in London. Before becoming one of the most sought-after young writers in the music industry, he worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. A recent graduate of the Courtauld with First Class Honours in History of Art (BA), Orlando continues to merge his creative practices across music and visual art. When not songwriting, he remains deeply engaged with London’s cultural landscape through curatorial work, critical writing, and a growing art collection focused on the emerging talent in contemporary art.
Rachel Hartley
Rachel Hartley graduated from the Courtauld’s MA History of Art in July 2025. Studying in Dr Catherine Grant’s special option ‘Telling Stories: Performing Identities and Histories in Art (1970 to the Present)’, Hartley focused on contemporary artistic reworking of historical narratives through experimental uses of video, photography, and collage. Professionally, the author has worked and volunteered in organisations focused on design and craft-based art.
Molly Lewis
Molly Lewis completed her MA in History of Art at the Courtauld in 2024, specialising in northern European art ca 1360-1520 under the supervision of Professor Susie Nash. She is particularly interested in tactile engagement with devotional objects from this period. She is currently working in collections care and conservation for the National Trust for Scotland.
Amelia Mielniczek
Amelia Mielniczek is a writer and artist based in Southeast London. She recently graduated from the MA in History of Art at the Courtauld where her dissertation examined Cy Twombly’s asemic mark making. She previously completed a BA in English at the University of Cambridge, where her dissertation explored ekphrasis in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on material culture, memory, mapping, and gender.
Ana-Maria Milčić
Ana-Maria Milčić is a postdoctoral researcher at the Art History Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Prior to this, she was Senior Research Officer at the Ben Uri Research Unit in London and taught online at Northwestern Polytechnic in Canada. She holds a PhD in Art History from the Courtauld, where she also taught extensively across BA and MA programmes from 2018 to 2024. She has published on the historical avant-gardes and their post-war counterparts in relation to politics, conflict, trauma, gender, exile, and psychiatry. Ana has curated exhibitions in Croatia and the UK, and has worked in museums and galleries across Russia, Italy, Hungary, Croatia, and the UK.
Ekaterina Zinurova
Ekaterina Zinurova is an AHRC-funded PhD student at the University of Warwick and the Imperial War Museums. Her doctoral research examines an understudied corpus of popular and fine art prints produced in France and collected by John Crichton- Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, during and after the First World War. Focusing on visual materials distinct from mainstream propaganda, her work explores how violent and fantastical imagery, print materiality, and collector networks shaped alternative forms of wartime cultural expression and private responses to conflict. She holds a BA and MA from the Courtauld, where she specialised in Soviet and post-Soviet visual and material culture.