Research overview

Research areas

Art History & Visual Culture is an exciting interdisciplinary initiative focusing on the importance of images and artefacts in our lives. The MPhil/PhD programme draws on our established, internationally recognised research activity in Art History and Visual Culture.

Research projects

Current and recent projects our academic staff have been working on are:

• A New History of Spanish Cinema
• Middlebrow Cinema
• Rock/Body: Performative Interfaces between the Geologic and the Body

Postgraduate research in Art History and Visual Culture

You will have the opportunity to study a topic which incorporates a number of established subject areas, including art history and cultural studies.

Supported by colleagues from across the Humanities disciplines with research interests in Visual Culture, we offer PhD supervision on a range of topics:

• from the old masters to contemporary practitioners
• from the traditional arts to new media and technologies
• and from elite production to popular culture.

You will also be able to conduct cross-disciplinary research in collaboration with other relevant fields of study.

This programme will particularly appeal to you if you have a background or interest in

• the history of art
• cinema
• cultural history
• philosophy
• sociology
• visual culture.