Academic staff by research and supervision areas

• French modernist art, design and visual culture 1850-1940
• Magazines, exhibitions and mass culture in France 1900-1940
• Art, the interior and domesticity
• Edouard Vuillard and the Nabis
• Femininities and Feminisms
• Parisian modernisms and modernity

I am an historian of visual culture, and my research focuses on text-image relationship and the dissemination of art in Britain in the 20th century. My research has been supported by the Barnes-Graham Trust and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Research and supervision areas:

• Renaissance/Early Modern art and architecture in Italy
• Renaissance/Early Modern architectural theory
• The Classical tradition and the revival of Antiquity
• Architectural drawings
• Michelangelo

Research and supervision areas:

• Sculpture in nineteenth-century France and Britain
• Sculpture and childhood
• The decorative arts
• Discourses of materials and of making
• Histories of collecting and display 

• Manuscripts and early printed books, especially Books of Hours
• Art at the French and Burgundian Courts c. 1400-1600
• Women as patrons and consumers of late medieval early modern art
• Text-image relations
• The querelle des femmes in art and literature

Research and supervision areas:

• Victorian visual culture
• Art and imperialism
• Classical Reception Studies
• Animal studies
• Art and industry
• The politics of collecting and display

 

Research and supervision areas:

• British art after 1945
• Masculinities
• Queer art histories
• Art and home
• Art and migration

• Sexuality and gender in Weimar Germany
• Women artists in interwar German art
• Eighteenth-century Swiss intellectual history and culture;
• Erotica and censorship
• Early twentieth-century German intellectual history and culture
• Text-image relations 

Deniz Sözen specializes in contemporary art practices and decolonising theories in the context of globalisation and diasporic art. She is particularly interested in Black and non-hegemonic art histories, with particular focus on artistic strategies that destabilise fixed notions of belonging and identity in relation to cultural theories concerned with hybridity, creolisation, opacity, ...