Dr Rosie DiasReader
Head of 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.
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.
Professor Jenny AlexanderProfessor
Senior Tutor
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.
Teaching Fellow
Email: J.Botton@warwick.ac.uk
Faculty of Arts Building
University of Warwick
Professor Louise BourduaProfessor
Venice programme Co-ordinator
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.
Assistant Professor
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
Professor
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.
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
Dr Otto Saumarez SmithProfessor
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.
Dr Giorgio TagliaferroEmail: 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.
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.
Recruitment and Outreach Teaching Fellow
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.
Dr Claudia DaniottiAssociate Tutor
Email: Claudia.Daniotti@warwick.ac.uk
Research interests: Renaissance art, especially Italian; classical tradition; iconography and iconology; reception of ancient Famous Women; posthumous life of Alexander the Great; transmission of ancient texts and their interplay with visual arts; the macabre and representation of Death in medieval and Early Modern Europe; reception of antiquity at the court of Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta in Rimini; Aby Warburg and his legacy.
Dr Livia LupiResearch Fellow
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.
Associate Tutor
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)
Supervisor: Dr. Rosie Dias
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)
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
Associate Lecturer
Curator of the Mead Gallery and the University of Warwick collection
Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Centre
warwickartscentre.co.uk/mead-gallery
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.
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.
UG Programmes Officer
Email: SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building
PG Programmes Officer
Email: SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building
Academic Administrator
Email: Emily.Bell@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building
Department Administrator - Student Experience
Email: T.A.Bale@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building
Department Administrator - Finance and HR
Email: Sarah.Shute@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building
Senior Department Administrator
Email: Claire.Nicholls@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building
Executive Assistant
Email: SCAPVCenquiries@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.50, Faculty of Arts Building
Subject Librarian for History of Art
Email: Andrew.Calvert@warwick.ac.uk
Technical Supervisor
Email: SCAPVCtechteam@warwick.ac.uk
Room: 2.51, Faculty of Arts Building
