Our academic staff

Dr Ammar Azzouz

Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Dr Lisa Blackmore

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Modernity in Latin America; Visual culture; Space and politics; Memory politics; Human-nature relations; Water, hydraulics, liquid ecologies in the arts; Environmental aesthetics; Photography; Digital culture; Contemporary visual production in Latin America; VENEZUELA RESEARCH NETWORK. With Dr. Penélope Plaza (University of Reading), Dr. Rebecca Jarman (University of Leeds).

Dr Matthew Burch

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Matt works on issues at the intersection of phenomenology; action theory; and research in the cognitive and social sciences.

Dr Paola Di Giuseppantonio Di Franco

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Disaster Heritage; Community Resilience; Heritage and Sense of Place; Digital Replicas of Heritage; Virtual Museums; Digital Heritage; Immersive environments for Heritage and Museums; The Heritage of Natural Catastrophes; Affect, Cognition and Perception in Digital Heritage Studies; Video Ethnography for Heritage Studies

Dr Lorna Finlayson

Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Professor Fabian Freyenhagen

Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Theory, history and practice of autonomy; Frankfurt School (especially Adorno); Ethics (particularly critique of Kant's and Kantian ethics); Political Philosophy

Dr Steven Gormley

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Research Interests

Dr Gavin Grindon

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: modern and contemporary art history; art and politics; activist-art; institutional critique and its futures; visual and material cultures of social movements and of social control; aesthetics and affect in social movements; curatorial studies; intersections of curating, critique and political organising

Dr Marie Guillot

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Philosophy of mind; philosophy of language; epistemology; philosophy of psychology; Speech acts

Dr Melissa Gustin

Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Professor Beatrice Han-Pile

Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Agency, medio-passivity and the theological virtues; Foucault and XXth century philosophy, in particular phenomenology

Dr Jane Hindley

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Dr Fiona Hughes

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Phenomenology (French and German)

Professor Timo Jütten

Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Critical Social Theory (Adorno, Habermas, Honneth); The moral status of Capitalism and Markets; Philosophy; Feminism (especially sexual objectification, prostitution, pornography); Philosophical foundations of human rights (the relationship between human dignity and human rights, mental capacity and human rights, human rights and Big Data)

Dr Matt Lodder

Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Centre - Senior Lecturer (R), School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: tattooing and body modification in their historical and theoretical contexts; lowbrow, outsider, countercultural, kitsch and erotic art & visual culture; the visual and cultural contexts of sex and sadomasochism, including pornography; internet and digital art; methodologies of art historical and visual culture study

Professor Wayne Martin

Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Philosophy of Psychiatry; Phenomenology (esp Hume, Husserl, Heidegger, Th Lipps, L&oslashgstrup); Kant and post-Kantian idealism (esp Fichte); The history and philosophy of logic; Philosophy and painting; Self-Consciousness; Autonomy and the Regulation of Care; Political Philosophy; Will, Agency and Contract

Professor Irene McMullin

Professor, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Research Interests

Professor Diana Bullen Presciutti

Head of School - Professor (R), School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: visual hagiography (especially miracle scenes); charitable institutions (hospitals, confraternities); visual culture of social problems; late medieval and Renaissance Italian visual culture (1300-1600); reception theory; visual culture of the mendicant orders (especially Franciscans, Dominicans, Augustinians, Servites); gender and sexuality; medical humanities

Dr Natasha Ruiz-Gomez

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Art and science/medicine; Auguste Rodin's oeuvre; Nineteenth-century French sculpture; Architecture and urban planning in nineteenth-century Paris; Auguste Rodin and science; Jean-Martin Charcot and art; Objectivity and medical imagery; Medical portraiture; Nineteenth-century medical photography; Theories of degeneration and genius

Dr Joerg Schaub

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Social and Political Philosophy (focus on contemporary theories and 19th century German authors); Frankfurt School and Contemporary Critical Theory; Aesthetics

Dr Michael Tymkiw

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Spectatorship; Histories of modernism; Exhibition design and curation; The relationship between art and politics; The use of digital technologies in museums and galleries; Intersections between pre-modern and modern art

Dr Ellisif Wasmuth

Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Ancient Philosophy, with particular focus on Plato; ancient conceptions of the self and self-knowledge; Socratic ethics; the Platonic dialogueAlcibiades I.;

Dr Daniel Watts

Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Research interests: Kierkegaard; Wittgenstein; The theory of judgement; Medical Humanities; Existentialism and phenomenology; Moral and political philosophy and; Philosophy of religion

Dr Matteo Baraldo

Senior Research Officer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Dr Matt Bennett

Senior Research Officer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Dr Francesca Dolcetti

Senior Research Officer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Dr Sean Irving

Senior Research Officer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Dr Elke Weidenholzer

Senior Research Officer, School of Philosophy and Art History

Plamen Andreev Andreev

Fixed Term Teacher, School of Philosophy and Art History

Dr Saloni De Souza

Fixed Term Teacher, School of Philosophy and Art History

Dr Matteo Falomi

Fixed Term Teacher, School of Philosophy and Art History