Staff research interests (Visual Cultures)
The relations between philosophical enquiry, perception and artistic practice, with emphasis on phenomenology and the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. 20th-century/contemporary and 17th-century Dutch visual culture.
Dr Jorella Andrews BA MA PhD
Performance and performativity in the visual arts; queer theory, queer cultures and their histories; post-Second World War US art; contemporary art and critical theory.
Dr Gavin Butt BA MA PhD
Moral and political philosophy; aesthetics; French and German philosophy.
Professor Alexander Düttmann MA PhD
Contemporary art and critical theory with particular reference to postwar liberation movements; modern and contemporary musicality, cybernetic theory, the cinematic soundtrack and archaeologies of futurity.
Kodwo Eshun BA BS MA
Urban cultures and architectural theory; the history of art history; modern art history; cultural studies, cultural theory.
Andy Lowe MA
Curatorial practices, museums, ephemeral art practices, futurity, non-knowledge, Stéphane Mallarmé, Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy.
Dr Jean-Paul Martinon BA MA PhD
Aesthetics, art theory, continental philosophy (especially Deleuze and Guattari), modern and contemporary art practices, ‘The Production of Subjectivity’
Dr Simon O’Sullivan BA MA PhD
Aesthetics, art theory, continental philosophy (especially Deleuze and Guattari), modern and contemporary art practices, ‘The Production of Subjectivity’.
Dr Simon O’Sullivan BA MA PhD
Painting and phenomenology (with particular reference to Merleau-Ponty); theories of embodiment; realism.
Brendan Prendeville BA MA
Visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory; post-colonialism and gender.
Professor Irit Rogoff BA MA PhD
Modern and contemporary German art and culture; post-holocaust art and culture; cultural memory; cultural and sexual differences.
Astrid Schmetterling BA MA
Literature and visual art of the 20th century with a particular interest in Samuel Beckett and aesthetics.
Dr Derval Tubridy BA MPhil PhD
Cultural theory, particularly feminism, queer theory, deconstruction, performativity; contemporary aural/visual culture including dance on/in film; questions of subjectivity, fantasy and the uncanny; science fiction in literature, film, and popular television.
Dr Lynn Turner BA MA PhD
Architecture and practice-led theories of conflict politics and human rights.
Dr Eyal Weizman (Director of Centre for Research Architecture) PhD
Film and video art in relation to questions of social, political and ethical transformation. Specialist interest: the work of the South Asian region.
Nicole Wolf BA MA PhD