The Courtauld has a teaching staff of more than 40 world-class scholars, covering a broad spectrum of the history of art and architecture. While they have a wide range of approaches to the study of the history of art, all share a commitment to the close examination of individual works. The teaching of the BA programme also helps students to engage with broader issues of theory and methodology. All students are allocated a Personal Tutor to assist them throughout the degree, and who usually provides the first point of contact for academic and personal issues. Students also have access to an Academic Support Tutor who can help with time management, research skills, reading techniques and other study skills. Further help with essay writing is provided by two Royal Literary Fund Fellows. The Fellows are published authors who offer students help with all aspects of writing, and do so in a friendly and confidential fashion.
Director
History of Art Department
Professor Jo Applin
Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art

Professor Sussan Babaie
Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam

Dr Jessica Barker
Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History

Professor Alixe Bovey, FSA FRHistS
Executive Dean and Deputy Director

Dr Lucy Bradnock
Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art and Dean for Research

Robert Brennan
Lecturer in Italian Art 1300-1500

Dr Esther Chadwick
Lecturer in Art History

Dr Indie A. Choudhury
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art

Stephanie Dieckvoss
Senior Lecturer in Art History

Professor Antony Eastmond
Acting Executive Dean and Deputy Director, AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art

Dr Johanna Gosse
Lecturer in Lens and Time-Based Art Histories

Dr. Sarah Grandin
Lecturer in the Arts of Early Modern France

Dr Catherine Grant
Reader and Vice-Dean for Education

Dr Felix Jäger
Lecturer in Early Modern Art and Material Cultures

Dr Klara Kemp-Welch
Reader in 20th Century Modernism

Dr Caroline Levitt
Senior Lecturer; Head of History of Art Department

Dr Kyle Leyden
Lecturer in Early Modern Architecture

Sujatha Meegama
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Art History

Dr Maria Mileeva
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art

Dr Natalia Murray
Lecturer in Modern Art and Curating

Professor Susie Nash
Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art

Professor Lynda Nead
Visiting Professor of History of Art

Dr Tom Nickson
Reader in Medieval Art & Architecture

Professor Gavin Parkinson
Professor in European Modernism

Professor David Peters Corbett
Professor of American Art

Professor Dorothy Price FBA
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History; Executive Dean and Deputy Director (from August 2025)

Professor Guido Rebecchini
Professor of Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art

Dr Robin Schuldenfrei
Tangen Reader in 20th-century Modernism

Dr Devika Singh
Senior Lecturer in Curating

Tom Stammers
Reader in Art and Cultural History

Dr Wenny Teo
Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art

Dr Stephen Whiteman
Reader in the Art and Architecture of China

Professor Sarah Wilson
Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

Dr Meredyth Winter
Lecturer in Early Islamic Arts

Dr Tom Young
Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art Histories

Conservation Department
Silvia Rita Amato
Conservation Scientist, Department of Conservation

Pippa Balch
Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Easel Paintings

Dr Donatella Banti
Professor Aviva Burnstock
Professor of Conservation

Maureen Cross
Senior Lecturer, Department of Conservation

Dr Pia Gottschaller
Reader in Technical Art History

Emily Howe
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Painting

Clare Richardson, FIIC
Head of Conservation

Dr Jane Spooner
Senior Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Paintings

Sibylla Tringham
Lecturer, Conservation of Wall Paintings

Lori Wong
Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Senior Lecturer in Conservation

Research Fellows
Zoë Dostal
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow

Dr Amanda Caterina Leong
Mongol Connections Getty Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Annabella Mei Massey
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Luke Naessens
Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Lecturer

Wenjie Su
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow

Sam Truman
Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellow

Dr Yayu Zheng
Asymmetry Postdoctoral Fellow
Associate Lecturers
Dr Harry Adams
Associate Lecturer

Sophia Adams
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer

Dr Bergit Arends
British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Will Atkin
Associate Lecturer

Dr George Bartlett
Associate Lecturer

Dr Gabe Beckhurst
Associate Lecturer

Dr Irene Brooke
Lecturer in Renaissance Art
Ellen Brown
Associate Lecturer

Dr Emily Christensen
Associate Lecturer

Dr Alice David
Associate Lecturer

Phoebe Day
PhD Student

Florence Eccleston
PhD Student

Dr Lily Evans-Hill
Associate Lecturer

Dr Barbara Furlotti
Associate Lecturer

Nicole Gasparini Casari
PhD Student

Jessica Gasson
PhD student

Anne Grasselli
Associate Lecturer

Dr Susan Green
Associate Lecturer

Dr Sophie Guo
Associate Lecturer

Catherine Ingrams
Associate Lecturer

Carla Kessler
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer

Tanya Klowden
PhD Student; Associate Lecturer

Dr Teresa Lane
Head of the Courtauld Graduate Diploma; Associate Lecturer

Dr Amanda Caterina Leong
Mongol Connections Getty Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Charlotte de Mille
Associate Lecturer

Dr Henning von Mirbach
Associate Lecturer

Dr Giulia Morale
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer

Luke Naessens
Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Lecturer

Abigail Provan
Associate Lecturer

Meitao Qu
Associate Lecturer

Dr Ana Gabriela RodrÃguez
Associate Lecturer

Dr Niccola Shearman
Associate Lecturer

Harvey Shepherd
Associate Lecturer

Dr Daisy Silver
Associate Lecturer

Anya Smirnova
PhD student

Hattie Spires
PhD Student; Associate Lecturer

Margaret Squires
PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer

Jane Stewart
PhD Student

Kirsten Tambling
Associate Lecturer
Han Tame
Associate Lecturer
Irakli Tezelashvili
PhD Candidate; Associate Lecturer

Dr Frances Varley
Associate Lecturer

Dr Helena Vilalta Conesa
Centre for the Art of the Americas Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-24

Xinrui Zhang
Associate Lecturer

Haoyang Zhao
Associate Lecturer

Xiaojue Michelle Zhu
PhD Candidate; Associate Lecturer

Professors Emeriti
Professor Caroline Arscott
Professor Emerita

Professor Martin Caiger-Smith
Head of MA Curating the Art Museum

Professor Joanna Cannon
Professor Emerita

Professor Robin Cormack
Professor Emeritus
Professor Eric Fernie
Professor Emeritus

Professor Christopher Green
Professor Emeritus
Professor Paul Hills
Professor Emeritus

Professor John Lowden, FBA
Professor Emeritus

Professor David Park
Professor Emeritus

Professor Aileen Ribeiro
Professor Emerita

Professor Katie Scott
Professor in the History of Art

Professor David Solkin, FBA
Professor Emeritus

Professor Christine Stevenson
Professor of Early Modern Art and Architecture

Professor Deborah Swallow
Professor Emerita

Professor Joanna Woodall
Professor Emerita
