Staff in the Department of Visual Cultures

Dr Alice Andrews

Alice considers the representations of biology and illness in various visual, literary and scientific narratives.

Professor Jorella Andrews

Trained in fine art and art theory, Jorella’s work focuses on philosophical inquiry, the image-world, and art practice

Dr Bridget Crone

Bridget’s work concerns technologies of/and the body and image in curatorial theory, philosophy, and art practice.

Dr Sarah Charalambides

Sarah's research engages conceptual reconfigurations of the precarious in art and visual culture.

Dr Jenny Doussan

Jenny is interested in the convergence and experience of language and image in art, media and politics.

Kodwo Eshun

Kodwo specialises in art and critical theory, referencing post-war liberation movements and contemporary musicality.

Dr. Janna Graham

Janna is a practice-based researcher, operating between curatorial practice and experimental education and research.

Dr S. Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha explores contemporary borders and migration, critical race theory, and visual cultures of the Black Atlantic.

Dr. Adnan Madani

Adnan is interested in philosophies of globalisation, religious/secular life and intercultural encounter.

Dr Jean-Paul Martinon

Jean-Paul teaches curatorial theory and continental philosophy and is currently writing on curating and ethics.

Dr Sam McAuliffe

Sam’s research is in modern European philosophy and critical theory, with an emphasis on art and aesthetics.

Dr Helge Mooshammer

Helge focusses on the entanglement of artistic and spatial practices across social, political and economic landscapes.

Dr Louis Moreno

Louis explores the spatial relationships and political economic forces that shape forms of everyday life.

Peter Mörtenböck

Peter has research interests in the fields of networked cultures, other markets and worlds of matter.

Professor Simon O'Sullivan

Simon is a theorist and artist working at the intersection of contemporary art practice, performance and philosophy.

Anthony Faramelli

Dr Anthony Faramelli is a psychosocial researcher and practitioner

Dr Manuel Ramos

Manuel’s work engages with the interrelation between the political and the image/sound pair.

Dr Wood Roberdeau

Wood’s ongoing work concentrates on art theory and practice that addresses ecological and environmental concerns.

Professor Irit Rogoff

Irit champions work from outside of traditional disciplines in the search for new understandings of the present.

Dr Emily Rosamond

Emily’s research explores the implications of financialization and metrification for online identity and selfhood.

Dr Ghalya Saadawi

Astrid Schmetterling

Astrid focusses on the relationship of culture to memory, between the act of bearing witness and the act of making art.

Dr Susan Schuppli

Susan uses media artefacts in her investigative processes to explore contemporary conflict and state violence.

Dr Lynn Turner

Lynn explores how animal and sexual differences matter in visual and aural culture.

Professor Eyal Weizman

In his research, Eyal forensically examines human rights violations using architectural, visual and aural techniques.

Dr Nicole Wolf

Nicole’s current research interests derive from anthropology, film studies, politics and postcolonial theory.

Dr Lenka Vráblíková

Lenka works in the field of feminist visual ethnomycology

Dr. Yaiza Hernández Velázquez

Dr. Yaiza Hernández Velázquez’s research focuses on art institutions, archives and tourism.