Art History and Visual Culture

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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
Ms Josie Cockram	Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Curation	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Jamie Edwards		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
Dr Daniel Fountain		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
Dr Meredith Hale	Specialist in Netherlandish art of the early modern period (c. 1550-1700). Research interests include: early modern print culture, particularly political satire and international print markets, and issues related to materiality and the reception of works of art.	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
Professor Tom Trevor		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

Research Staff
Dr David Rosenthal		Streatham Campus, Exeter

Honorary University Fellows
Ms Rebecca Alexander	Honorary Research Fellow	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Ms Lara Goodband	Honorary Research Fellow	Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Sam Smiles	Honorary Professor	Streatham Campus, Exeter

Academic Staff in other Departments who teach into AHVC
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 Oliver Creighton		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Dr Felicity Gee		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 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 Middl	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
Dr Debra Ramsay		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Professor Heike Roms		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	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

PhD students
Luca Brunke		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Chloë Edwards		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Anna McGee		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Juanita Navarro Paez		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Cecilia Neil-Smith		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Michelle Reynolds		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Sarah Spencer		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Jo Sutherst		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Estrella Torrico Cuadrado		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Mr Sebastian Tym		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Cathy Zhang		Streatham Campus, Exeter
Qi Zhou		Streatham Campus, Exeter