Critical histories and practices of photography, performance and live art; LGBTQIA+ artmaking and cultural politics; decolonial ecologies and ecocritical debates and methods; identity and subjectivity; politics of the archive
Time-based media and contemporary art conservation; archaeological conservation; agential realist, new materialist, post-humanist, and post-qualitative approaches to conservation; essentialism and non/representationalist research practices; fragment, loss, and absence
Pre-Columbian and colonial art of Latin America; print culture and materiality in colonial South America; movement and circulation; hybridity, visibility and invisibility; nationalism and regional art histories
19th and 20th century European art; feminism and global politics; photographic and contemporary art from Africa; the image of the 'Jew'; race, racialisation and representation in modern and contemporary art
Materials analysis of heritage collections, Pigments and dyes, illuminated manuscripts, watercolours and paintings, 19th century England, Late Antiquity
Medieval art and architecture of Africa; Ethiopic, Syriac, Armenian, and Copto-Arabic illuminated manuscripts; Ethiopian and Eritrean art; historiography; Oriental Orthodox Christianity.
Islam, South Asia, Indian Ocean; transculturation; affect and experience; manuscript studies; scribal knowledge; Arabic, Persian, and Hindavi; translation and circulation; intersections between art and science; decolonial nonmodern; ‘global medieval, early modern;’ ‘ludic’ arts or the arts of play.
Modern and contemporary US-American art and visual culture; the politics of style and genre; decolonial and critical race art histories; inter-war African American painting and photography; historiographies and critical histories of African American art.
Global contemporary art; art and mass culture in East Asia; international socialist art and post-socialist art; feminist theories; queer theories; diaspora studies
Modern and contemporary art in a global frame; art and architecture of South Asia; Islamic art in South Asia; colonial photography; twentieth-century partition history; museum studies; repatriation politics; postcolonial theory and criticism; object mobilities; cross border methodologies
Art, Design and Architecture; Cultural Understanding; Heritage, Industry and Cultures; Media, Communications and Information; Thoughts, Beliefs and Philosophy; Sustainable Cities.
Materiality in the conservation of time-based media and performance art; feminist new materialisms; ethics and performativity of cultural heritage; notions of inclusions/exclusions in material art histories and conservation
Medieval visual culture; representations of pain and punishment; saints; gender and sexuality; animal studies and ecocriticism; war and wartime conduct; translation.
19th and 20th century European art and architecture; German interwar art, aesthetics and the historiography of art; feminist and historical materialisms, ecology, contemporary art
Modern and contemporary art; questions of feminism, gender, sexuality and subjectivity; artistic resistance to militarism and war; psychoanalysis; violence; the politics of peace
Modern art and visual culture in Britain, the former British empire, and North America; environmental humanities; the history of science and technology
Painting, sculpture, goldsmith work, drawing/design, mainly Italian, from the 14th-16th century. The material uses and effects – social, political and aesthetic – of metals, across media and over time
Banner Image:Still Life with Flowers and Gold Cups of Honor, Clara Peeters, 1612
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