Staff research interests (Visual Cultures)
The relations between philosophical inquiry, visuality and artistic practice, with a particular emphasis on phenomenology and the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. More generally, 20th Century, contemporary visual culture.
Dr Jorella Andrews BA MA PhD, Head of Department
Performance and performativity in the visual arts, queer theory, queer cultures and their histories, club performance, and 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 is also an artist and curator.
Kodwo Eshun BA MA
Contemporary art, especially photography, continental philosophy, especially phenomenology.
Dr Andy Fisher BA MA PhD
Urban cultures and architectural theory, the history of art history, modern art history, cultural studies, cultural theory.
Andy Lowe BA MA
Modern and contemporary French thought (especially the works of Stéphane Mallarmé, Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, and Emmanuel Levinas), Rwandan history and philosophy, museology and curatorial practices.
Dr Jean-Paul Martinon BA MA PhD
Aesthetics, art theory, continental philosophy (especially Deleuze, Guattari, and Badiou), modern and contemporary art (especially ritual and performance, fiction and mythopoesis), psycho/schizo-analysis, the production of subjectivity. Simon is also an art practitioner.
Dr Simon O’Sullivan BA MA DPhil
The phenomenology of art (with particular reference to Merleau-Ponty), theories of embodiment, pictorial realism.
Brendan Prendeville BA MA
Visual culture, contemporary art and critical theory, participation, spatial practices and the curatorial, 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, post-colonial studies and transnational art.
Astrid Schmetterling BA MA
20th century and contemporary literature and visual art, with a particular interest in Samuel Beckett, and aesthetics.
Dr Derval Tubridy BA MPhil PhD
Feminism, queer theory, deconstruction, performativity; post-humanism and the ‘animal question’; contemporary aural/ visual culture; subjectivity, fantasy and the uncanny; science fiction.
Dr Lynn Turner BA MA PhD
Eyal is an architect, writer and curator and the founding director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. His architectural projects include the rebuilding of the Ashdod Museum of Art, stage sets for the theatre, and several prizes in architectural competitions. His research interests concern the architectural in its widest sense, in particular where it intersects with the political and with issues of human rights.
Dr Eyal Weizman BA MA PhD
The locations, practices and effects of film and video art production in relation to notions of veridiction, hybridity and transformation; the South Asia region and the international contexts of politics, media and art. Also the situated performances of the political, civil society and the citizen, innovation, gender and ethnicity, and the relation between image making and violence.
Dr Nicole Wolf BA MA PhD
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