Research degrees
Push the boundaries of knowledge in our supportive and stimulating environment.
Modern and Contemporary
Staff
- Dr James Boaden Post-war American Art; experimental film
- Professor Whitney Davis Queer theory; theories of visual culture
- Professor Jason Edwards Queer Theory; Animal Theory; complex and other world systems
- Dr Teresa Kittler Artistic practices from 1945 to the present day
- Professor Michael White Interwar avant-gardes; theories of abstraction; sculpture in the twentieth century
Research students
- Thomas Bromwell Interwar British Art and the Apocalypse
- Gabriella Beckhurst Performing Natures: Critical Ecologies of Photography and Performance at the end of the Twentieth Century
- Yiran Chen Transboundary: Contemporary Chinese ink art in a global context
- Helena Cox The Impact of British Art in Bohemia/Czech Lands around 1900
- Francesca Curtis Posthuman Agency, Ecocentric Relations: Art, The Environment, and the Capacity for Change
- Amina Diab Re-displaying the Modern: A History of Art Exhibitions, Artistic Networks and Institutions in the Middle East and North Africa 1947-1989 (AHRC funded CDA)
- Jillian Echlin The Potters of Lalejin: Iranian ceramics as a case study for contemporary craft culture in a digital age
- George Field Do works of art produced on the island of Capri between 1850 and 1945 share unifying principles besides subject, style and national origin?
- Isabelle Gapp A Circumpolar Landscape? Art and Environment in Scandinavia and North America, 1896-1936
- Mariko Hirabayashi Charles Ricketts and Japan: The Liaison of Japanese Art in Britain from the 1880s to the 1920s
- Debbie Innes The architectural, artistic and social histories of the New Gallery, Regent Street 1888-1910
- Stephen Kerr The impetus provided by the Ernst-May-Siedlungen housing projects in Frankfurt during the Weimar Republic to the development of dweller-designed domestic interiors in Modernist mass-housing
- Jonathan King The Art of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant of the Bloomsbury group, taking a particularly queer stance using the theories of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Louisa Lee Conceptual Art in Britain 1964–79 (AHRC funded CDA)
- Kyveli Lignou-Tsamantani (In)visible Atrocity Images in Contemporary Art: Towards a Reconsideration of the Ethics and Politics of Photographing and Viewing Atrocities
- Grace Linden Together as Kids: Dan Colen, Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow in New York, c. 2001-2010
- Simon Marginson The Art of Picabia
- Lydia Miller An exploration of the career and contribution to 20th-century art of Ambrose McEvoy
- Julia Musgrave Networking the Modern: Roger Fry and the Contemporary Art Society c.1910-1939
- Samantha Niederman Solving 'the modern problem': Frances Hodgkins and Cedric Morris
- Melanie Polledri Networks, Connections and Ambition: The work of Sir William Goscombe John 1899-1942
- Jessica Schouela When Pictures Falter: Photography and Abstraction 1914–1930
- Chris Sheldon The Persistence of Modernity; Railways Art and Relativity’
- Melissa Stanley A thematic study on the planning and actualisation of three English towns of the New Town Movement: Letchworth, Milton Keynes, and Harlow
- Yu-Jui Yang Beyond the Crafts and Arts Movement: two socialist paradigms for art liberty in Asia
MA degrees
Study our specialist History of Art (Modern and Contemporary Art) Masters course.