Dr Sarah Charalambides

Staff details

Position Lecturer
Department Visual Cultures
Email s.charalambides (@gold.ac.uk)
Phone +44 (0)20 7919 7496
Dr Sarah Charalambides

Dr Sarah Charalambides is a visually trained art theorist interested in the exchange between creative practice and critical knowledge production. With a PhD in Visual Cultures and an interdisciplinary background in subjects such as Graphic Design (BDes), Art History (BA) and Contemporary Art Theory (MRes), she teaches across a wide range of modules relating to modern and contemporary art theory, history and practice.

The academic research underlying Sarah’s pedagogical practice centres on the relationship between radical politics and aesthetic practices, as seen through the workings of representation and visual culture. Engaging conceptual reconfigurations of precarious work and life from a global perspective, her research considers 21st century artistic and activist practices that resist and transform the ways in which subjectivities are rendered insecure and pitted against one other through the neoliberal imperative of competition and self-optimisation.

Academic qualifications

  • PhD Visual Cultures 2020
  • Postgraduate Certificate in the Management of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 2018
  • MRes Contemporary Art Theory 2014
  • BA Art History 2013
  • BDes Graphic Design 2008

Teaching and Supervision

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Grants and awards

2014: Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Scholarship
Scholarship for MPhil/PhD in Visual Cultures

2014: VSBfonds Scholarship
Scholarship for MPhil/PhD in Visual Cultures

2015: Erasmus+ Student Mobility Grant
Student Mobility Grant for period of study at the Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE