Research Forum
Associate Scholars
The Associate Scholars group is made up of, predominantly, early-career researchers based at The Courtauld in conjunction with distinguished Visiting Professors. Postdoctoral Fellows working on a range of topics and Visiting Lecturers and Visiting Professors teaching courses at The Courtauld form the core membership of this group. The Associate Scholars meet at least once a term giving an opportunity for the members to offer presentations and share knowledge about their research.
The 2011-2012 Associate Scholars are listed below.
Monia Abdallah
Monia Abdallah received her doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris in December 2009 with a dissertation entitled Constructing the Continuous Progress of the Past: an inquiry into the notion of ‘Contemporary Islamic Art’ (1970-2009). Before coming to the Courtauld, she was Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) . Over the course of 2011-12, in addition to pursuing her own research, Dr Abdallah will be teaching a BA course and working with Professors Mignon Nixon and Juliet Mitchell on the Research Forum/Mellon Foundation M.A. course, which this year is: Art And Psychoanalysis: Fifty Years Of War In The Time Of Peace, 1960-2010.
Charlotte Ashby
Charlotte
was awarded her PhD in 2007 by the University of St Andrews for a thesis examining the intersection of nationalist and modernist aspirations in turn-of-the-century Finnish architecture. She went on to hold the post of Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Viennese Café Project at the Royal College of Art. She is editor and contributor to a forthcoming collection of essays: The Viennese Café and fin-de-siecle Culture, Berghahn 2013. Other recent publications include ‘Nation-building and Design: Finnish Textiles and the work of the Friends of Finnish Handicrafts', Journal of Design History, 23:4, 2010; pp. 351-365.
Thomas Balfe
T. J. Clark
Marie Collier
Marie Collier is a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute. Her working thesis title, ‘A Photographic Historiography of Soviet Architecture c. 1924-1939’ addresses the role of architectural photographs in interpreting, dispersing and translating architecture to a mass audience. Marie earned an honours BA from the University of Toronto (2008) and an MA from the Courtauld Institute (2010). Prior to returning to the Courtauld for her PhD, she assisted in the coordination of exhibitions of contemporary Canadian design in Toronto. She is a 2012 contributor to the Views and Reviews research blog.
Elizabeth Currie
Amy De La Haye
Charlotte de Mille
Charlotte de Mille is a Visiting Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Her current research concerns the intersection of music, painting and philosophy. Editor of the volume Music and Modernism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), and recently published in Art History, she has contributions forthcoming in: James H. Rubin and Olivia Mattis, eds, Rival Sisters, Music and Art at the Birth of Modernism (Ashgate); Satish Padiyar, ed., Modernist Games: Cézanne and The Card Players , (inaugural online publication of the Research Forum at the Courtauld Institute); S. E. Gontarski, Laci Mattison, and Paul Ardoin, eds, Understanding Bergson, Understanding Modernism (Continuum); L. Cleaver and A. Lepine, eds, Gothic and its Legacies (Cambridge Scholars Publishing); and A. Leonard and T. Shepherd (eds.), Music and Visual Culture: A Research Guide (Routledge). She is Chair of the Royal Musical Association's Music and Visual Arts Group, and a member of the Lates Programming Committee for Public Programmes at the Courtauld Gallery, through which she curates a series of music-lecture recitals for the Gallery's temporary exhibitions. She was co-author of 'Animating Art History' for Public Programmes in conjunction with Central St Martins and the University of the Arts London, a widening participation programme which was long-listed for a Clore Award for Museum Learning in 2011.
Catherine Draycott
Kate Grandjouan
Kate Grandjouan completed her doctoral thesis Close Encounters: French Identities in English Graphic Satire c1730-1790 in December 2009. She was awarded a Post-Doctoral Fellowship by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in March 2010 and is now revising the manuscript for publication. Current research interests include visual and textual representations of the French, print cultures; national satire; theories of humour and cross-channel circulation and exchange. Kate has been a visiting lecturer at the Courtauld Institute since January 2011. Last year she taught two new courses on the eighteenth century (Reading Hogarth and Graphic Satire in Britain 1680-1790). In 2011-12 she is teaching Reading Hogarth and collaborating on a new MA course entitled Sets and Series in Early Modern Painting.
Emily Gray
Chris Green
Sarah Guérin
Sarah Guérin received her PhD from the University of Toronto in July 2009 for a dissertation entitled ‘Tears of Compunction’: French Gothic Ivories in Devotional Practice. Prior to arriving at the Courtauld, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University, and also held the Hanns Swarzenski and Brigitte Horney Swarzenski Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. An expert in medieval ivories and associated with the Gothic Ivories Project, Sarah’s publications have appeared in the Journal of Medieval History and West 86th. While at the Courtauld, in addition to teaching courses on medieval art, Sarah is working on a number of projects, including a book manuscript entitled Ivory Palaces: Gothic Sculptures at Church and Court and a catalogue for the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.
Jim Harris
Jim Harris has been a Visiting Lecturer at The Courtauld since 2009 and is the 2011 Andrew W Mellon Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow. Since completing his PhD, Donatello's Polychromed Sculpture: Case Studies in Materials and Meaning in 2010, he has taught at Birkbeck and King's College (University of London) and has given research papers in Copenhagen and at the University of Kent. In addition to sculptural polychromy, his research interests touch more broadly on sculptural techniques and on the relationship between theology and representation. He is a member of the Sculptural Processes research group and was Editor of immediations The Courtauld Postgraduate Research Journal in 2008 and 2009. Jim has published on André Beauneveu, Northern polychromed sculpture, Florentine painting and contemporary drawing and is involved with the Public Programmes department at The Courtauld. He is also a Director of the contemporary gallery Man and Eve, where he recently curated In Place: new collage works by Sarah Bridgland. More information concerning Jim's research can be found on his Research Forum Profile page and on the Courtauld VLE.
Sarah Hyde
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Lucetta Johnson
Susan Jones
Klara Kemp-Welch
Klara Kemp-Welch is the Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at The Courtauld for 2009-12. She is researching artistic exchange between the countries of the former Soviet ‘bloc’ and former Yugoslavia by initiating a project titled Festivals and Friendships: Networking the ‘bloc.’ The aim of this three year project is to collect and to compare artists’ stories and memories of the years 1956-1991, and to establish how ideas and information were conveyed across borders in the late socialist period. Klara is currently also completing the manuscript of a book titled Not Playing Politics: Anti-Heroism in Central European Art 1965-1989. She has published reviews, articles in journals, and catalogue essays on political aspects of modern and contemporary art. These include studies of work by Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Beres, Endre Tót, and Sanja Ivekovic. See profile page.
Elizabeth Kim
Liz Kim is a PhD candidate in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art. For the Spring 2012 term, she is also a Visiting Lecturer at the Institute, teaching the BA year 1 topics course, Comtemporary Art in London. Her research examines the contemporary art markets and the relationship between economics and the contemporary visual arts. Her dissertation will explore the phenomena of art market bubbles in the 1980s and the 2000s, and how cultural fissures between various social groups, through targeted marketing and the profit-seeking media, contribute to economic behaviours in the market for visual arts. She obtained her MA in Art History at Leiden University, and obtained her BA in Economics at University of California, San Diego. She is a 2012 contributor to the Views and Reviews research blog.
Ayla Lepine
Ayla Lepine has a BA in History in Art from the University of Victoria (2003), a PGDip in Theology from Oxford University (2004), and both an MA (2005) and PhD (2011) from The Courtauld. Her doctoral research, supervised by Professor Caroline Arscott, explored George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner's architectural commissions for Oxford and Cambridge. Ayla has held Visiting Lecturer positions at King's College London, the V&A, Warwick University, and The Courtauld. Her publications have appeared in The Architects' Journal, The Burlington Magazine, Art and Christianity and The Tablet. Her research interests include queer perspectives on nineteenth-century art, the intersections of theology and the arts, monastic and convent art and architecture in modern Britain, and the persistence of the Gothic Revival beyond the nineteenth century. She is currently the 2012 Andrew W. Mellon Research Forum Postdoctoral Fellow (Activities Co-ordinator) at The Courtauld. Her project, 'Revival: Utopia, Memory, Identity' includes a workshop, conference, lecture series and online exhibition. In 2013 she will be an Associate Fellow at Yale University's Institute of Sacred Music. For more information, see Ayla's profile page.
Caroline Levitt
Caroline Levitt specialises in French art and literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; she completed her PhD on the relationship between Guillaume Apollinaire and André Breton as manifested through their involvement and interest in artistic practices such as graffiti, illustration, cinema and the collection and construction of objects. Her article ‘Screening poetry: Guillaume Apollinaire, André Breton and experimental cinema’ appeared in the 2008 issue of Immediations. Over the next year, Caroline plans to develop interests emerging from her doctoral research, in particular her work on Le Corbusier, which she hopes will form the basis of a book. Other research interests include collaborations between artists, writers and craftsmen and the relationships between literature and sculpture. Caroline is a visiting lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art. See profile page.
Nadine Loach
Nadine is in her third and final year studying for a BA in History of Art at the Courtauld Institute. She is currently studying Eastern European Art in Transition: From the 1960s to the Present with Klara Kemp-Welch. Nadine is also chairperson of the Courtauld Institute’s East Wing X exhibition Material Matters: The Power of the Medium. She is interested in issues surrounding the accessibility of art and supports the development of cultural public programmes. Nadine is planning to study for a Masters in Curating or Museum Studies and hopes to have a career in gallery curating and management. She is a 2012 contributor to Views and Reviews.
Maria Mileeva
John Milner
Juliet Mitchell
Juliet Mitchell's pioneering work in gender and psychoanalysis has led to numerous publications, including, among many others, Psychoanalysis and Feminism (1974), The Rights and Wrongs of Women (ed. with A. Oakley, 1977), Mad Men and Medusas: Reclaiming Hysteria and the Sibling Relationship for the Human Condition (2000) and Siblings: Sex and Violence (2003). Among her research interests are Gender differences from a psychoanalytic and social history perspective with particular reference to hysteria; an examination of the construction of the mother-and-baby couple in studies of 2nd World War and post War psychology and in particular psychoanalysis. This work revealed the importance of siblings and the neglect of a horizontal paradigm in contrast to the dominant vertical parent-child relationship of the Pre-Oedipal and Oedipus complex and more widely in the social and psychological sciences. Professor Mitchell is currently Professor of Psychoanalysis and Director of the Expanded Doctoral School in Psychoanalytic Studies at UCL Psychoanalysis Unit. She is also the Founder Director of the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Cambridge, a Research Fellow at the Department of Human Geography, University of Cambridge and Fellow Emeritus of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. She is a Fellow of the British and International Psychoanalytical Societies. During 2011-12, Professor Mitchell will be teaching the Andrew W Mellon MA, Art and Psychoanalysis: fifty years of war in the time of peace, 1960-2010, alongside Professor Mignon Nixon and with the collaboration of Dr Moniah Abdallah.
Natalia Murray
Natalia Murray was born in St Petersburg where she read Art History for five years at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1998 she completed her doctoral thesis on C18th English Mezzotint Engravings at the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. Her interest in the Russian Avant-Garde was always there, but was brought to the surface when she met the grand-daughter of one of the most influential Russian art critics of the early C20th, Nikolay Punin, and began to write a book about him and his struggle to keep Avant-Garde art alive in Russia after the Revolution. Natalia’s biography of Nikolay Punin, ‘The Unsung Hero of the Russian Avant-Garde. The Life and Times of Nikolay Punin (1888-1953)’, will be published by Brill Academic Publishers in April 2012. At present Natalia is writing her second PhD thesis, at the Courtauld, on the development of proletarian art in Russia after the 1917 Revolution, and its various forms of expression in the street decorations of Petrograd.
B. D. Nandadeva
Nanda began his multidisciplinary training with a B.A. (Hons) in Fine Arts from the University of Ceylon in 1975. From 1978-80, affiliated to the University of Thessaloniki and the British School of Archaeology at Athens, he carried-out a self-directed study on Greek art and Byzantine art. Visits to museums and archaeological sites in Greece and several other Mediterranean and European countries during this period influenced him to develop an interest in heritage preservation, and subsequently, to earn a Master's in Architectural Conservation from the University of Moratuwa in 1986. He broadened his experience in conservation and heritage management from the Graduate Diploma course in Rock Art Conservation at the University of Canberra in 1989. Two years later, the University of Delaware accepted him to its newly introduced doctoral program in Art Conservation Research. He was awarded the Ph.D. in 1998 for his dissertation on the materials and techniques of 18th and 19th century Buddhist temple paintings of Sri Lanka. His research interests cover a variety of aspects of Sri Lankan art and material culture, technical art history, heritage preservation, and colonial studies. At present, on sabbatical leave from his permanent position as a Professor at the University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka, he is affiliated to the Courtauld Institute as a Caroline Villers Research Fellow, characterizing the materials and techniques of Buddhist temple paintings of the southern and western maritime regions of colonial Ceylon (Sri Lanka).
Oliver Norris
Satish Pandey
Edward Payne
Edward Payne
is a Visiting Lecturer at The Courtauld Institute of Art. In 2009 he held a Rome Award at the British School at Rome, and in 2007-8 worked as a Print Room Assistant in The Courtauld Gallery Prints and Drawings Room. With Zahira Véliz, he co-organised the conference Drawn to Spain: Showcasing New Research on Spanish Drawings, and with Lauren Barnes, the AAH Session Copies and Translations: Re-placing the Original. Edward is now completing his PhD thesis, Violence and Corporeality in the Art of Jusepe de Ribera, supervised by Dr Sheila McTighe.
Janet Robson
Jane Scarth
Jane Scarth is a current undergraduate student who recently contributed the first in a series of Views and Reviews for a new Research Forum initiative. Within the Courtauld she is a part of the committee for the East Wing X: Material Matters exhibition as the head of Learning and Engagement, currently organising talks and workshops by participating artists and finding innovative ways to engage with the exhibition. Her other projects include being a member of the Student Forum at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, where she is involved in finding inventive ways to respond to their exhibitions and programme, including contributing to a blog and organising events.
Elisa Schaar
Elisa Schaar received her BA in Philosophy from Harvard University (2004) and her MSt and DPhil in Art History from Oxford University (2005 and 2010). Before coming to the Courtauld, she was Visiting Lecturer at the University of Warwick in the academic year 2010-11. Ongoing research interests include pop, the European reception of American pop in a Cold War context, pop’s politically-inflected European variants, and the legacy of pop in the 1980s and the present global situation. On the occasion of the ‘Warhol: Headlines Exhibition’, Elisa is co-organizing a Terra Foundation international symposium on ‘American Art and the Mass Media’ that will take place at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris in May 2012. Her article ‘Spinoza in Vegas, Sturtevant Everywhere: A Case of Critical (Re-)Discoveries and Artistic Self-Reinventions’ appeared in Art History in December 2010. Among her publication projects is a fuller study of Sturtevant’s multifaceted practice of repetition. At the Courtauld this year, Elisa teaches a BA third-year course on pop and the contested status of mass culture. A forthcoming Leverhulme research project (Early Career Fellowship) will explore sound and the durational experience in art since the 1960s.
John-Paul Stonard
Glenn Sujo
Glenn Sujo completed formal studies in fine art and the history of art at the Slade School of Art (Dip FA) and Courtauld Institute of Art (MA, PhD 2010). As a recipient of a Wingate Scholarship during the academic year 2010/11, he will be preparing his doctoral thesis on the life and work of Auschwitz survivor, Yehuda Bacon, Disseminating Memory: Lines Across an Abyss, for publication. Since the demise of the Cold War and the opening-up of Second World War archives in Central and Eastern Europe, Sujo has undertaken original research into the subject of the ‘Imagination in Internment’ and curated several major exhibitions including: Legacies of Silence: The Visual Arts and Holocaust Memory, Imperial War Museum, London (2001), Artists Witness the Shoah, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield (1995) and On the Track of Tyranny, Wiener Library, London (1983). As Paul Mellon Research Fellow, Sujo has contributed actively to the recovery of drawing language in art polemics and higher education, through practice-led research, exhibitions of his own work, publications and curatorial assignments including: Drawing on these Shores, A View of British Drawing and its Affinities (Bath and Brighton Festivals). He is a founding member of faculty at the Prince’s Drawing School and convenor of the Drawing Symposium (2003-08) and the mind-spirit-body-matter: drawn to the human workshop at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge (June 2010). A recent study of the sketchbooks and process works of Polish émigré Jankel Adler will form the basis of an extended book and exhibition on the artist (in preparation).
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Mika Takigushi
Lisa Tickner
Lisa Tickner is a Visiting Professor at The Courtauld. Her current research interests include the London art world in the 1960s, British art c.1880-1980, and contemporary women artists. Find out more on her staff profile page.
Zahira Veliz
Rose Walker
Kuenga Wangmo
Giles Waterfield
Giles Waterfield is an independent curator and writer, Associate Scholar at The Courtauld Institute of Art and Director of Royal Collection Studies. He taught The Courtauld's M.A. in the History and Theory of The Art Museum, and has worked as Head of Education at the Royal Pavilion, Art Gallery and Museums and as Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery from 1979 to 1996. He was joint curator of the exhibition Art Treasures of England at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1998, In Celebration: The Art of the Country House at the Tate Gallery in 1998 and Below Stairs, National Portrait Galleries, London and Edinburgh, in 2003-4. He is an authority on the history of museums and his publications include: Palaces of Art, Art for the People and Soane and Death, as well as three novels. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, a Vice-President of NADFAS and Trustee of Charleston, Sussex.
Catherine Yvard
Catherine Yvard has been working as Project Manager on the Courtauld Gothic Ivories Project since 2008 (www.gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk). She was previously involved in digitisation projects at the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, the Bodleian Library in Oxford and the British Library in London, cataloguing medieval illuminated manuscripts. She has taught several courses related to this topic at Trinity College, Dublin and University College, Dublin, and a Courtauld Summer School focusing on illuminated manuscripts in the Middle Ages. She specialises in the study of late-medieval Books of Hours and is particularly interested in the transition from manuscript to printed, and the transmission of patterns through time and space. She is now also turning her attention to ivories, as she has been seeing quite a few lately. For a list of her publications, visit: http://gothicivories.courtauld.ac.uk/insight/yvard_aboutus/yvard_aboutus02.html