PhD in History of Art (University of Cambridge, UK)
Dr. Phil. in German Literature (University of Cologne, Germany)
M.A. in German Literature with History of Art and Philosophy (University of Munich, Germany)
PG Cert. in Teaching in Higher Education (University of Birmingham)
I supervise MA dissertations, MPhil and doctoral theses on modern and contemporary art (preferred areas include any aspect of migration and diasphoric communities in Germany and Britain, post-socialist issues in a European context, exhibition cultures in Germany, Britain or post-1989 Europe). Former students work in galleries (including Tate Britain), secondary schools or have continued postgraduate work.
Successful completion
PhD
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2013 Richenda Roberts, 'Patriotism is not enough': Visual responses to pacifism and feminism in Britain during World War One (AHRC-funded, co-supervision with Dr. Francesca Berry)
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2012 Moayad Hussein, Western influences on Khalifa Qattan's Circulism (funded by the Cultural Office of the Kuwaiti Embassy, London)
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2012 Marie Considine, Social history's regional aspects: Bernard Fleetwood-Walker and the RBSA (Royal Birmingham Society of Arts) in the first half of the twentieth century
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2011 Charlotte Gore, Internationalism, nationalism, regionalism: art colonies in Germany (Worspwede, Neu-Dachau and Eifel Gruppe)
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2009 Jenny Powell, Anglo-French exchanges in post-war exhibition cultures in London (AHRC-funded)
MPhil
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2013 Imogen Wiltshire, Arthur Segal's Painting School for Professionals and Non-Professionals from 1937 to 1944 (AHRC-funded)
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2012 Julia Abraham, The BLK Art Group and black art in Britain in the 1980s (Raymond Priestley Scholarship)
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2011 Antonia Grousdanidou, The Production of Space and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham: From Art Object to Art Institution, 1963-1978
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2011 Amy Shulman, Photography, Memory and Identity: The Émigré Photographer Lisel Haas (1898-1989)
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2010 Georgina Webb Dickin, The performative role of the Berlin wall and the reception of postmodernism beyond it
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2009 Richenda Roberts, Pacifism and gender: censorship and the anti-war art of Evelyn De Morgan (AHRC-funded, co-supervision with Dr. Francesca Berry)
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2009 Chad Morris, The Superman. Idea and representation of the superman in comic books of the 1930s and 1940s
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2004 Jenny Powell, Germaine Richier and Existentialism (AHRB-funded)
In progress
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Amy Shulman, The impact of émigré photographers on Picture Post (PhD, Haywood Scholar 2011-13)
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Imogen Wiltshire, Arthur Segal: Art Practice and Psychoanalysis (PhD, AHRC-funded)
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Viktoria Kisseleva, Collecting as politics. The post-communist Russian art collector (PhD by Distance Learning, part-time, co-supervision with Dr. Natasha Rulyova, Russian Department)
I am currently working on two projects:
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Abstract and Concrete Art. Conceptions of Space in 1930s Britain (book)
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Commercial Art Galleries in London during WWII (project)
Research fellowships and invited professorship
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2013/04-2014/03 Fellow at the Max Weber Center for Advanced Social and Cultural Studies, University of Erfurt, Germany
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2012, Jan-July Fellow at the Max Weber Center (see above)
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2010 Adjunct Professor (Summer School), Korea University, Seoul, South Korea (like the University of Birmingham, Korea University belongs to Universitas 21, the leading global network of research universities)
Reviewing research applications and publications
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Academic member of the AHRC's Peer Review College (since 2010)
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2011 Reviewer of ARTMargins: Central and East European Visual Culture for the MIT Press
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2010 and 2012 External project reviewer for the DAAD
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2009 Reviewer for WWTF (Vienna Science and Technology Fund)
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2003 Book reviewer for Manchester University Press
Successful grants
Overcoming Dictatorships (Co-I)
Funded by the European Union (scheme ‘Culture 2000’) with € 513.688 (15/11/2006-14/05/2009)
The project explored ways in which artists and writers dealt with the political changes in Europe, in particular the opening of socialist countries since the end of the 1980s. A number of symposia held in the seven participating European countries (Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, Italy, Germany and Britain) explored forms of remembrance of authoritarian systems (Socialism, Fascism, National Socialism) and anxiety of new ones (consumerism, globalization, mass media). Critical attention was also drawn to the EU’s unifying character in the light of cultural diversity.
PI: Prof. Dr. Dr. Gerhard Besier, Technische Universität, Dresden, Germany; further Co-Is: Prof. Dr. Ehrhard Cziomer, Krakowska Szkoła Wyższa im. Andrzeja Frycza Modrzewskiego, Kraków, Poland; Dr. Marius Oprea, Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania, Bucharest, Romania; Doc. PhDr. Kristina Kaiserová CSc., University of Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic; Katalin Gádoros for Prof. Dr. István Rév, Open Society Archives, University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; Prof. Dr. Gustavo Corni, University of Trent, Italy).
The artists involved in the project were Zbynĕk Benýšek, Zbigniew Czop, Mirela Dauceanu, Ulf Göpfert, Harald Hauswald, Silvestro Lodi, Vlad Nancă, Sándor Pinczehelyi, Michele Zaggia and Aleksander Zyśko.
Outputs:
Two publications:
Furthermore:
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A European network that has made possible transnational and interdisciplinary dialogues
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A website and a blog while the project was running
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An international exhibition touring through Europe in 2008/9 (University of Birmingham, The National Museum of Contemporary Art at the Ion Creanga National Theatre, Bucharest and Town Hall City, Dresden)
Development of Technology-Enhanced Learning in the Department of History of Art (P-I)
Funded by the Learning Development Unit, University of Birmingham with £40.388.39 from Sept. 2005 for 24 months.
Based on work carried out as part of my publication on web-based research and teaching material in the History of Art in CHart (Computers and the History of Art), I successfully bid for an innovative project involving the transformation of the large slide library of the Department of History of Art into a digitised source supporting teaching and research, a cutting edge strategic undertaking at the time. The project has been successfully managed and carried out, and has significantly contributed to cultural changes in approaching the discipline at the University of Birmingham.