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Departmental officers

Head of Department

Research interests:

  • Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian art
  • Receptions of Ancient and Renaissance art
  • Aesthetics and art criticism

Adam Hewitt

Deputy Head of Faculty Operations (DHoFO)

Chair of the Departmental Research Committee

Research interests:

  • Modern and contemporary art
  • Critical theories of the avant-garde
  • Art Law

Chair of the Board of Studies

Research interests:

  • Religion
  • Materials
  • Scientific imagery
  • Late Medieval/Renaissance/Early Modern
  • Northern Europe (Germany and low countries)

Director, York Art History Collaborations (YAHCs)

Research interests:

  • British art 1650-1850
  • Modern British art
  • JMW Turner
  • Ceramics

Head of Admissions

Deputy Head of Admissions

Research interests:

  • The visual and material culture of South Asia, 1526-1947
  • Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh court painting
  • Long-Nineteenth-Century photography in Asia
  • Queer theory, especially Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
  • Imperial scupltural pantheons at St Paul's Cathedral and York Minster

Chair of Graduate Studies

Research interests:

  • Architectural history
  • English Baroque architecture
  • Christopher Wren
  • Architecture and intellectual history

Research Programmes Director

Research interests:

  • British art, 1200-1540
  • Stained glass
  • Medieval art and education
  • Medieval art and kingship

Athena Swan/Equal Opportunities Officer and Harassment Officer

International, Visiting and Exchange Students, and Research Seminar Convener

Examinations Officer (taught programmes)

Research interests:

  • Modern British art
  • Modern art
  • Art writing
  • Historiography and theory
  • Gender and sexuality

Careers and Employability Coordinator

Tracey Milnes

Computing Officer

Research Seminar Convener

Ethics (incl Faculty Ethics Committee)

Research interests:

  • Dress and fashion history and theory
  • Rubens
  • Seventeenth-century Low Countries
  • Material culture
  • Habsburg court culture