Migrations faculty members
Dr Indie A. Choudhury
Indie A. Choudhury is a specialist in the art, literary, and sonic Anglophone cultures of the Black Atlantic, particularly histories and theories of resistance, time and metaphysics, poetics-poethics, abstraction, and subjectivity. While her work is based in the modern and contemporary period, it encompasses the history, legacies, and afterlives of the transatlantic slave trade and other diasporic ruptures of migration and exile. Her research and teaching interests have an interdisciplinary remit, exploring the intersections between art history, literature, postcolonial studies, critical theory, and Black studies.
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Dr Maria Mileeva
Maria Mileeva is a specialist in Soviet and Post-Soviet art and culture. Her research and teaching focus on the production, circulation, and consumption of socialist art practices across the globe during the late Imperial, Soviet, Stalinist, late Soviet, and post-Soviet periods. Maria’s current major research project interrogates the linkages between the cultural policies of socialist realism and socialist internationalism in the former Soviet Republics, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Her research centres around postcolonial and decolonial narratives of the Russo-Soviet imperial projects and Soviet multinationalism.
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Professor Dorothy Price
Dorothy Price is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History at the Courtauld Institute of Art and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is the author of numerous books and articles on modern and contemporary art and also works as a curator. Her exhibitions have included Personal Feeling is the Main Thing with Chantal Joffe at The Lowry, Salford in 2018, For Esme with Love and Squalor also with Chantal Joffe at Arnolfini, Bristol in 2020, Making Modernism at The Royal Academy of Arts in 2023, Claudette Johnson Presence at The Courtauld Gallery in 2023 and the Royal Academy’s main galleries exhibition for Spring 2024, Entangled Pasts 1768-now: Art, colonialism and change.
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Dr Devika Singh
Devika Singh specialises in curatorial practice in modern and contemporary art, with a particular emphasis on art in South Asia and the transnational history of modernism. She has curated exhibition in a diversity of contexts, ranging from India and Bangladesh to the UAE and the UK.
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Dr Wenny Teo
Wenny Teo researches and teaches on Modern and Contemporary East and Southeast Asian art with a focus on China and transnational Sinophone cultures. Current research includes ‘infrastructural imaginaries’ in contemporary Chinese art, focusing on issues of ecology, technology and the Belt and Road.
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Professor Sarah Wilson
Sarah Wilson is an art historian and curator whose interests extend from post-war and Cold War Europe and the USSR to contemporary global art. She was educated at the University of Oxford (BA English Literature) and at the Courtauld, where she took her MA and PhD degrees. She joined The Courtauld’s faculty in 1982.
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Dr Tom Young
Tom Young’s work centres on nineteenth-century art histories, with a particular focus on colonial South Asia. His current research explores the global history of lithography, a medium that significantly reshaped visual cultures across Asia.
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