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The Department of History of Art has an international reputation for its research in medieval, Renaissance and modern art. Our range of interests include: nineteenth- and twentieth-century design history; photography; museology; gender and representation; and interdisciplinary topics, particularly relationships between: art and film; art and anthropology; and art and medicine.

Current research is concentrated in the following areas:

EARLY MODERN ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE

• Urbanism, architecture and visual culture in Medieval Europe
• Visual cultures of fifteenth-century Europe
• Art in Early Modern Italy

ARCHITECTURE

• Medieval architecture in Central and Eastern Europe
• Institutional and domestic space in early-twentieth-century Vienna
• Brutalism and twentieth-century British architecture

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Daguerrotypes and nineteenth-century commercial photography
• Photography and gender
• Photography and sculpture
• Twentieth-century British photojournalism
• 1970s radical photographic practice

MUSEUMS AND MEMORY STUDIES

• Museums, monuments and memorialisation
• Monuments and trauma
• Micro-museums

BRITISH ART

• Eighteenth-century portraiture and conversation pieces
• Nineteenth-century optical technologies
• Twentieth-century art, photography and architecture

An PhD is an advanced postgraduate research degree that requires original research and the submission of a substantial dissertation. The MPhil thesis is not more than 60,000 words; the PhD thesis is not more than 100,000 words. The thesis requirements for a practice-based project vary according to the nature of the research and can be discussed with the admissions tutors. Both the MPhil and the PhD are assessed by a viva voce examination.