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

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.

Kodwo Eshun

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

Anthony Faramelli

Dr Anthony Faramelli is a psychosocial researcher and practitioner

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 explores questions of time and museology in intercultural philosophies.

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.

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.

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.

Dr Lenka Vráblíková

Lenka works in the field of feminist visual ethnomycology

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. Yaiza Hernández Velázquez

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