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Academic Staff
Dr Fiona Allen	Research and teaching interests include contemporary art and its relationship to design and architecture, critical theory and the history of photography.	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr João Florêncio	Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture; performance theory, post-continental philosophy, and eco-humanities in an attempt to question the certainty of the 'Nature'/'Culture' divide	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Gabriella Giannachi	Director of the Centre for Intermedia and specialist in art and technology, including presence research, mixed and virtual reality, and collaborates with artists, galleries and museums towards research that informs the exhibition, documentation, archiving and replay of mixed medi	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor David Houston Jones	Contemporary visual culture, in particular installation art and epistemologies and representations of the face in photography, video, performance and installation. Interests in French visual culture, forensics, testimony, archives and the artist as archivist and artist as curator	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Nick Kaye	History of post-war experimental performance, with emphasis on the relationship between performance and the development of ideas and practices through sculpture, architectural theory, conceptual and performance art, aspects of experimental music, installation, video art and video	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Camille Mathieu	Research interests include the materialities of imperialism, the art, architecture, archaeology, and urbanism of France and its colonies from the eighteenth through the early twentieth century.	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Fabrizio Nevola	Director of AHVC programme. Art, architecture and urbanism in Renaissance Italy; urban iconography and public and private self-representation; digital humanities applied to art history and visual culture.	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Melissa Percival	An expert in eighteenth-century French studies with research interests in Eighteenth-century art, literature and history of ideas. She has published widely on theories of physiognomy and facial expression	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Sabrina Rahman	Interdisciplinary research focuses on the intersection of modern design, class and ethnicity in Austria-Hungary and the British Empire; also art historiography, museum studies, and global cultures of housing.	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Yue Zhuang	Research and teaching addresses cultural contacts between China and Europe with regard to landscape issues in the 18th-century	Streatham Campus, Exeter

Affiliated Staff
Professor Pascale Aebischer	Early Modern French theatre and visual culture and its English representations in drama and visual arts	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Barbara Borg	'Art' and archaeology of the Greeks and Romans; visual and material culture as a source for Ancient History and Classics	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Emma Cayley	Text-image relationships in late medieval and early modern France, specifically manuscript illumination and paratext (marginalia, scribal interventions, materiality)	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Sally Faulkner	Spanish film, literature and cultural studies with an approach that draws on the theories of adaptation studies, intertextuality and intermediality	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Fiona Handyside	French film, with special interest in trans-cultural approaches to female stardom in European and Hollywood cinema, cinematic spaces and the spaces of cinema	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Helen Hanson	Hollywood cinema in the studio era, feminism and film, gender and genre, film aesthetics, particularly film sound, and literary adaptations on film	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor William Higbee	His research interests focus upon film studies and French studies, especially: contemporary French cinema, post-colonial cultures in France, diasporic cinemas and digital media, questions of national and transnational cinemas, theory-based film practice	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Danielle Hipkins	Research and teaching focus upon feminist film theory, gender representation in post-war Italian cinema, female prostitutes on screen, spectatorship and post-war Italian cinema and contemporary women's writing and fantastic fiction	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Stephen Hodge	Research and teaching both focus on contemporary performance (site-specific performance & performance-related practices, and live art)	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Linda Hurcombe	Focus on artefacts and material culture studies; ethnographies of craft traditions, the sensory worlds of prehistoric societies and the manner in which archaeologists and anthropologists approach artefact studies	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Elena Isayev	Research interests range from reconstructing histories of pre-Roman groups in south Italy, by using the rich material remains, to deconstructing theories of generation conflict and youth in republican Rome	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Joe Kember	His research addresses the development of popular and visual entertainments throughout the Victorian period and early twentieth century, including traditions of performance and representation in early and silent film, magic lantern shows, music hall, and fairground	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Emma Loosley	Oriental Christian and early Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology; European Travellers in the Middle East; Themes of syncretism and inter-religious and inter-cultural exchange in the Middle East and surrounding area; Late Antique and Medieval Eastern Mediterranean and Middle	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr James Lyons	Research interests focus upon contemporary American film and television, American indie culture (especially film, comics, and music, and theories of popular culture and taste)	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Chloe Paver	Research interests focus upon museum exhibitions and memorial sites commemorating the Third Reich; cultural memory; representations of the Third Reich in German and Austrian fiction and film, and fiction since the Wende	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor John Plunkett	Research centres on Victorian visual culture, particularly illustration, optical toys, photography and visual perception	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Cathy Turner	Research interests include dramaturgy, writing for performance, the performance of place, space and site, walking performance and the relationship between performance and architecture and sustained accounts and imaginaries of global communities, space and time	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Corinna Wagner	Research focus on Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British political culture, Gothic literature, art and architecture, Romantic and Victorian Medievalism, Medicine, the Body and the Arts, and Foucault and Panopticism (architectural and medical)	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Phil Wickham	Phil Wickham is Curator of The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture. Phil has written and lectured extensively on film and TV, particularly on British culture and identity	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Patricia Zakreski	Her work is primarily in the field of inter-art criticism in the nineteenth century, and has recently focussed on the relationship between women's work and art, exploring the connections that existed between artistic, commercial, and gender economies in the second half of the nin	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Ulrike Zitzlsperger	Research interests focus upon the culture and literature of Twentieth-Century Berlin, and 16th-century culture in Germany including: the role of city myths, literary and autobiographical perceptions of the city, film and photography reflecting public spaces in periods of transiti	Streatham Campus, Exeter