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01 Tagliaferro, Giorgio

Dr Giorgio Tagliaferro

Reader

Head of History of Art

Email: g.tagliaferro@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 5.68, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: Renaissance and Early Modern art, especially Italian and Venetian; visual arts and the display of power; arts and spectatorship; painting and beholding; art criticism; drawing and creative process; artists’ workshops; devotional practice and visual culture; patronage and artistic production.

02Dias, Rosie

Professor Rosie Dias

Co-Head of School of Creative Arts, Peformance and Visual Cultures

Professor in History of Art

Email: rosemarie.dias@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 5.67 Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British art and visual culture; colonial art, particularly in India; British artists in Venice.

a Ajmar, Marta

Dr Marta Ajmar

Associate Professor
Director of Research

Email: Marta.Ajmar@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 5.65, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: Renaissance and Early Modern material culture; Artisanal knowledge and craft technology in the global Renaissance; Contemporary regenerative design, making and craft; Learning through making and experiential pedagogies.

a Alexander, Jenny

Professor Jenny Alexander

Professor
Admissions Tutor (autumn and spring 2024/25)

Email: jennifer.s.alexander@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 5.66, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: medieval art and architecture especially the study of medieval and early modern buildings, their construction and use.

a Botton, Jim

Jim Botton

Teaching Fellow

Email: J.Botton@warwick.ac.uk

Faculty of Arts Building
University of Warwick

a Bourdua, Louise

Professor Louise Bourdua

Professor
Venice Convenor

Email: l.bourdua@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 5.58, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: artistic patronage, religious orders and intersections between the Veneto and Northern Europe in the later middle ages and Renaissance.

a Cane, Jonathan

Dr Jonathan Cane

Assistant Professor

Exams Officer

Email: jonathan.e.cane@warwick.ac.uk

Room: FAB5.59, Faculty of Arts Building

Research Interests: Modern and contemporary art and architecture from the Global South; environmental and oceanic humanities; natural history collections and herbaria; urban history of Sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil; queer theory and critical STS

a Hatt, Michael

Professor Michael Hatt

Professor

Director of Graduate Studies

Email: m.hatt@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 5.60, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century art in Denmark, Britain, and the USA; sex, gender and sexuality; race, racism and colonialism; sculpture and the sculptural.

a Kocialkowska, Kamila

Dr Kamila Kociałkowska

Assistant Professor

Tel: +44 (0)24 76 23622
Email: kamila.kocialkowska@warwick.ac.uk

FAB 5.70

Research interests: Art and culture of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Empire; theories of modernism; socialist realism; abstract art; printmaking and print culture; new censorship studies; surveillance studies; new materialist methodologies

a Roberts, Richenda

Dr Richenda Roberts

Teaching Fellow

Email: R.Roberts.6@warwick.ac.uk

Room 5.62, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: The representation of modern and contemporary war and pacifism in visual and material culture.

British art, design and architecture produced during the period 1840-1940, especially in relation to practices of magic, occultism and spiritualism. Decolonisation of the Western art canon. Curatorial practices. The development, implementation and evaluation of novel methodologies

a Saumarez Smith, Otto

Dr Otto Saumarez Smith

Associate Professor

Email: Otto.Saumarez-smith@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 5.69, Faculty of Arts Building

Research Interests: architectural practices; post-war university architecture; leisure centres; inner cities; shopping centres; the workings of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government.

a Smith, Paul

Professor Paul Smith

Professorial Fellow

Email: paul.g.smith@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 5.62 Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: nineteenth-century French painting, art theory, criticism, and literature, especially Baudelaire, Manet, Impressionism, Seurat, Cézanne, and stories about art. Wittgenstein's aesthetics, and the writings of Adrian Stokes and Richard Wollheim. The phenomenology and neuroscience of visual experience and art. Colour, colour theory, especially George Field, and colour diagrams.

a Vogt, Naomi

Dr Naomi Vogt

Associate Professor

Admissions Tutor (from Summer Term 2025)

Mead Gallery Liaison Officer

Email: naomi.vogt@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 5.70, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: Art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st century; moving image within history; documentary practices; the post-internet; visual anthropology; video installation; rituals; the circulation of tropes and iconographies; art and knowledge.

a Walford, Sarah

Dr Sarah Walford

Assistant Professor (Teaching Focused)

Director of Undergraduate Studies

Email: sarah.walford@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 5.61, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: the life and career of Coventry's first City Architect, Sir Donald Gibson, and Coventry's pioneering role in post-war public sector architecture.

c Baker, Sharon

Sharon Baker

Associate Tutor

Email: Sharon.Baker@warwick.ac.uk

c Lupi, Livia

Dr Livia Lupi

Associate Tutor

Email: livia.lupi@warwick.ac.uk
History of Art Academic Studio, Level 5, Faculty of Arts Building

Research interests: late-medieval and Renaissance painting and architecture, especially in Italy; representations of architecture in the arts; frescoes; rhetoric and its interplay with the visual arts; architectural drawings; painter-architect figures.

c Towler, Lucinda

Lucinda Towler

Associate Tutor

dEllmer, Thomas

Thomas Ellmer

Exhibitions Curator, Mead Gallery

dShalgosky, Sarah

Sarah Shalgosky

Associate Lecturer
Curator of the Mead Gallery and the University of Warwick collection

Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
warwickartscentre.co.uk/mead-gallery

eCampbell, Louise

Professor Louise Campbell

Emeritus Professor

Email: l.e.m.campbell@warwick.ac.uk

Research interests: late nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture, especially modern British architecture, public art in the post-war period, and the artist's studio.

eGardner, Julian

Professor Julian Gardner

Emeritus Professor

Email: julian.gardner@warwick.ac.uk

Following his retirement in 2008 he was appointed as an Emeritus Professor in the Department. In 2014 he was also appointed as an Honorary Professor in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance where he acts as an advisor to the Director, and as a mentor for their postgraduate and doctoral members.

e Rosenthal, Michael

Professor Michael Rosenthal

Emeritus Professor

Email: m.j.rosenthal@warwick.ac.uk

f.1 Dinu, Monica

Monica Dinu

UG Programmes Officer

Email: SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

f.1 Watkins, Paula

Paula Watkins

Senior Programme Co-ordinator covering PG Programmes Officer

Email: SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

f.2 Ho, Chau

Chau Ho

Academic Administrator

Email: C.Ho.1@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

g1 McVey, Tracey

Tracey McVey

Department Administrator - Student Experience

Email: T.A.Bale@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

g2 Shute, Sarah

Sarah Shute

Department Administrator - Finance and HR

Email: Sarah.Shute@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

g3 Nicholls, Claire

Claire Nicholls

Senior Department Administrator

Email: Claire.Nicholls@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

g4 Cassidy, Clara

Clara Cassidy

Senior Executive Assistant

Email: clara.cassidy@warwick.ac.uk

Room 2.50 Faculty of Arts Building

g4 Huning, Nathalie

Nathalie Huning

Executive Assistant

Email: SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

g Calvert, Andy

Andy Calvert

Subject Librarian for History of Art

Email: Andrew.Calvert@warwick.ac.uk

g O'Donoghue, Ian

Ian O'Donoghue

Technical Supervisor

Email: SCAPVCtechteam@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.51, Faculty of Arts Building

h Clémence, Couriet Bossan

Clémence Couriet Bossan

Thesis: The life and career of French art dealer Georges Petit (1856–1920)

Supervisor: Professor Paul Smith

In nineteenth-century France, the exhibition of art underwent profound transformation. Alongside the official Salon emerged alternative Salons, World’s Fairs, artist-led exhibitions and shows organised by private dealers, as galleries assumed an increasingly important role within a previously highly institutionalised art world. Georges Petit was a leading figure in this new landscape, famously described by Émile Zola as a 'dandy, very chic', determined to 'ruin the Goupil firm, to surpass Brame, to be the first'. Despite his prominence, Petit has received limited sustained scholarly attention, particularly regarding the later phase of his career, which culminated in the auction of his possessions after his death in 1920. This research reassesses Petit’s career and examines the broader role of art dealers in shaping what art is exhibited, valued and ultimately collected

h Flavell, Ella

Ella Flavell

Email: Ella.Flavell@warwick.ac.uk

Thesis title: Living Roots– Art Brut Within and Without the Western Art World, 1930-1988

Supervisor: Dr Naomi Vogt and Prof Hilary Marland

Research Description: Art Brut, produced by psychiatric patients, 'isolated' individuals, and the self-taught, has long found itself excluded from the art historical canon upon which it had such a profound impact. Offering a visual language seemingly untainted by 'cultural conditioning,' Art Brut played a key role in the development of avant-gardes on both sides of the Atlantic. Framed by the collections of Jean Dubuffet, André Breton, and Alain Bourbonnais, my project asks how an idea of Art Brut was constructed, adopted, and exploited within modernist circles. It questions and challenges the ways in which Art Brut has been historicised, asking how the canonical, Western narrative of modern art changes when these practices are reassessed. In doing so my project aims to demonstrate that rather than an anonymous adjunct to such narratives, Art Brut occupied a pivotal and essential position within them