Staff in the Department of Visual Cultures

Dr Alice Andrews

Alice's research is concerned with questions of dis/ability, response-ability, and practices of self in complex systems

Manca Bajec

Manca is a researcher, and artist whose interdisciplinary work is situated in the realm of socio-politics. She currently

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 of language and image in art, media and politics.

Dr Ifor Duncan

Ifor focuses on the spatial and cultural implications of devastated of watery ecosystems.

Dr Başak Ertür

Başak's research focuses on law's epistemologies and legal aesthetics.

Dr Kodwo Eshun

Dr Kodwo Eshun specialises in Black Studies, Anglophone Pan-Africanisms, the essay film and diasporic futurisms.

Anthony Faramelli

Dr Anthony Faramelli is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures and the co-Programme Leader for the BA in Fine Art and History of

Dr Janna Graham

Dr Janna Graham studies legacies of colonialism in neoliberal spaces, institutions and modes of publicity.

Dr S Ayesha Hameed

Ayesha Hameed explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figures of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.

Dr Yaiza Hernández Velázquez

Dr. Yaiza Hernández Velázquez’s recent research focuses on art institutions, exhibition studies, archives and touris

Adrian Heathfield

time-based arts, writing, curation, phenomenology, continental philosophy, ethics and ecology

Dr. Adnan Madani

Contemporary South Asia and its diaspora, Islamic philosophy, race, curating, theories of justice, globalisation

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, urban processes and political forces that shape the forms of everyday life

Peter Mörtenböck

Professor Simon O'Sullivan

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

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.

Dr Emily Rosamond

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

Dr Ghalya Saadawi

My interests range across art and political economy, witnessing and testimony, law and psychoanalysis

Astrid Schmetterling

Astrid Schmetterling’s research focuses on the relation between history, culture and memory.

Professor 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

Christina Varvia

Christina uses forensic architecture techniques and feminist epistemologies to investigate political conditions.

Professor Eyal Weizman

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

Scott Wark

Scott researches digital culture and the intersection of race and digital technology.