Sam Cooper
Forms of political engagement explored within C20th avant-garde movements, particularly the adoption of situationist theory in Britain in the last 40 years. The larger context for this work relates to aesthetics and political commitment.
Aesthetics and Visual Theory.
sc279@sussex.ac.uk
Gillian Daw, DPhil student, English
"Comets, Transits, Eclipses: Astronomy and the Victorian Poetic Imagination."
Intersections between Victorian science, literature, poetry and visual/optical technologies.
Aesthetics and Visual Theory; Word/Image.
dauf7@sussex.ac.uk
Jane Eade
Interaction between European religious history and visual culture, particularly portraiture. Jane has completed her DPhil at Sussex where she was the holder of a Collaborative Doctoral Award, funded by the AHRC, between the University of Sussex and the V&A Museum in relation to the exhibition Baroque 1620-1800: Style in the Age of Magnificence (V&A 4 April - 19 July 2009). A former curator, she has recently completed a term as Leverhulme Fellow in the History of British Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery.
jane.eade@network.rca.ac.uk
Therie Hendrey-Seabrook, ISS tutor and independent researcher
Nineteenth-century literature and the periodical press, especially the illustrated journal, Punch, and the parodic relations between Punch and its contemporaries; discourse theory; the interaction between image and text and its relationship to cultural discourse; Victorian visual culture; the development of children's literature; the thriller/detective fiction (especially late-Victorian/Edwardian). Aesthetics and Visual Theory; Word/Image.
T.J.M.Hendrey-Seabrook@sussex.ac.uk
Dan Howells, Associate Tutor and collaborative DPhil student - British Museum/Sussex "Gold glass in late antiquity."
Roman provincial, Late Antique and Early Byzantine material culture and imagery.
lap05dth@yahoo.co.uk
Anthony McGrath, DPhil student, Art History
"Books in Art: The Symbolic meaning and significance of images in books in Italian Religious painting, 1250 - 1400."
Medieval Art History; Palaeography; History of Book Binding.
a.mcgrath@sussex.ac.uk
Graeme Pedlingham, DPhil student, English
"The Un-Scene of Memory: Energetic Theory and Representation in Theatre, Film and New Visual Media."
Aesthetics and Visual Theory; Moving Image Studies; Word/Image.
G.G.Pedlingham@sussex.ac.uk
Rebecca Searle, collaborative DPhil student - History/Imperial War Museum
Visual representations of aviation in Britain 1930-1945; relationship between ideas of the nation and technological modernity.
rks22@sussex.ac.uk
Yugin Teo, associate tutor and DPhil student, English
Research interests in the fields of memory, contemporary literature, particularly the writer Kazuo Ishiguro, and in film.
Word/Image.
yuginteo@hotmail.com
Sophie Thomas, Associate Professor, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Research interests: Romantic period literature, visuality and visual culture in Romanticism, literary theory, fragments and ruins.
Selected recent publications: Romanticism and Visuality: Fragments, History, Spectacle, Routledge: 2007; Making Visible: The Diorama, the Double and the (Gothic) Subject Robert Miles, ed., in Romantic Circles, Praxis Series (Special Issue, 'Gothic Technologies: Visuality in the Romantic Era) University of Maryland, 2005.
sophie.thomas@ryerson.ca