We are very pleased to announce Olga Smith's arrival in September as a WIRL-COFUND Research (Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Leadership Programme) Fellow. For this prestigious two-year award Olga will develop her project on the politics and aesthetics of photographic representations of landscape in Europe in the contemporary period. Dr. Karen Lang will act as supervisor. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Olga Smith has held positions at the Humboldt University of Berlin, University of St Andrews and Tate Gallery, London. Her research has appeared in Art History, Fotogeschichte, History of Photography and Nottingham French Studies, and she is the co-editor of Anamnesia: Private and Public Memory in Modern French Culture (Peter Lang: 2009).