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01 Tagliaferro, Giorgio

Dr Giorgio TagliaferroDr 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.

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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.

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a Alexander, Jenny

Jenny AlexanderProfessor 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.

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a Bourdua, Louise

Louise BourduaProfessor Louise Bourdua

Professor
Senior Tutor

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.

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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

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aDias, Rosie

Dr Rosie DiasDr Rosie Dias

Reader

On research leave 2024/25

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.

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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.

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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

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a Saumarez Smith, Otto

Otto Saumarez SmithDr Otto Saumarez Smith

Associate Professor
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.
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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.

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a Vogt, Naomi

Dr Naomi VogtNaomi Vogt

Associate Professor
Admissions Tutor (from Summer Term 2025)
Mead Gallery Liaison Officer
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.

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a Walford, Sarah

Dr Sarah WalfordDr 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.

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c Lupi, Livia

Livia LupiDr 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.

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c Towler, Lucinda

Lucinda Towler

Associate Tutor

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cY Dutt, Smriti

Smriti DuttTutor photo

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Contact: Smriti.Dutt@warwick.ac.uk

Thesis: Reviving the embroidery art of Chamba Rumal: An exploration of the relationship between verbal and visual narration. (Funded by Chancellor's International Scholarship)

Supervisor: Dr. Rosie Dias

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cY Maugars, Maialen

Maialen Maugars

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Contact: maialen.maugars@warwick.ac.uk

Thesis: Birmingham Museums' Italian Renaissance and Baroque Decorative Arts Collection

Supervisors: Prof. Louise Bourdua and Dr. Rosie Dias (University of Warwick); Dr. Rebecca Bridgman and Victoria Osborne (Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery)

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cY Wilde, Bryony

Bryony Wilde

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Truth be Carved: A Comparative Study of English Medieval Roof Bosses at St Marys Redcliffe and Tewkesbury Abbey (1100-1540)

Supervisor: Dr Jenny Alexander

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dEllmer, Thomas

Thomas Ellmer

Exhibitions Curator, Mead Gallery

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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

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eCampbell, Louise

Professor Louise CampbellProfessor 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.

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f.1 Brown, Julia

Julia Brown

UG Programmes Officer

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

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f.1 Watkins, Paula

Paula Watkins

PG Programmes Officer

Email: SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk 

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

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f.2 Bell, Emily

Emily Bell

Academic Administrator

Email: Emily.Bell@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

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g1 McVey, Tracey

Tracey McVey

Department Administrator - Student Experience

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

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

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g2 Shute, Sarah

Sarah Shute

Department Administrator - Finance and HR

Email: Sarah.Shute@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

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g3 Nicholls, Claire

Claire Nicholls

Senior Department Administrator

Email: Claire.Nicholls@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

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g4 Cassidy, Clara

Clara Cassidy

Executive Assistant

Email: SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building

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g Calvert, Andy

Andy Calvert

Subject Librarian for History of Art

Email: Andrew.Calvert@warwick.ac.uk

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g O'Donoghue, Ian

Ian O'Donoghue

Technical Supervisor

Email: SCAPVCtechteam@warwick.ac.uk

Room: 2.51, Faculty of Arts Building

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