Prof Liz James

Role

Professor of Art History.

Professor James teaches the following undergraduate and postgraduate courses:

First Year:
Stories of Art: lectures on the "good bits" - Classical and Byzantine art
Objects of Art: lectures on the "good bits" - Classical and medieval art

 Second Year: 

Methods and Approaches in the History of Art

From Statues to Saints: Pagan and Christian Art in Late Antiquity

Final Year

Byzantine Art 843-1204: a Golden Age?

Representing Women in Art

Commemorative Art

Postgraduate:
Byzantine options on the Art History MA : Power of Images in Byzantium; Art and text in Byzantium

Postgraduate Supervisions
Completed:
Bente Bjornholt, The use and portrayal of spectacle in the Madrid Skylitzes (Bib.Nac.vitr. 26.2) (jointly with QUB)
Vassiliki Dimitropoulou, The artistic patronage of imperial Komnenian women
Nadine Schibille, Light and Architecture in Byzantium: the case of Hagia Sophia

Helen Rufus Ward, The Liverpool Ivories and 19th-century collecting of Byzantium

Daniel Howells, "Late Antique gold glass", AHRC Collaborative DPhil with the British Museum (Chris Entwistle)

Current:
2003-: Elza Tantcheva, "Colour and light in the post-Byzantine churches of Arbanassi, Bulgaria", University of Sussex Seedcorn scholarship.

2007-: Iuliana Gavril, "Architecture and contemplation in sixth-century Byzantium", University of Sussex Graduate Teaching Assistantship

2008-: Wendy Watson, 'Personifications and silverware in Late Antiquity'

2009-: Neil Churchill, 'Images of Macedonian Emperors'

2009-: Rebecca Raynor, 'St Luke as artist'

2011-: Gavin Osbourne: Magic and Floor mosaics

2011-: Engy Eshak: Women in Coptic Egypt

Schibille, Nadine (2013) A quest for wisdom: the sixth-century mosaics of Hagia Sophia and late antique aesthetics. In: New light on old glass: recent research on Byzantine glass and mosaics. British Museum research publication (179). British Museum Company Ltd, London. ISBN 9780861591794 (In Press)

James, Liz (2010) Mosaic Matters: Questions of Manufacturing and Mosaicists in the Mosaics of San Marco, Venice. In: San Marco, Byzantium and the myths of Venice. Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposia and Colloquia . Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington D.C., pp. 227-243. ISBN 9780884023609

James, Liz (2006) Byzantine glass mosaic tesserae: some material considerations. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 30 (1). pp. 29-47. ISSN 0307-0131

James, Liz (2005) Seeing is believing but words tell no lies: captions and images in the Libri Carolini and Byzantine Iconoclasm. In: Negating the image: Case Studies in Iconoclasm. Ashgate Publishing Limited, Farnham, pp. 97-112. ISBN 9780754608547

James, Liz (2004) Senses and Sensibility in Byzantium. Art History, 27 (4). pp. 522-537. ISSN 0141-6790

James, Liz (2003) Color and Meaning in Byzantium. Journal of Early Christian Studies, 11 (2). pp. 223-233. ISSN 1067-6341

James, Liz (2001) Empresses and Power in Early Byzantium (Women, Power & Politics). Women, Power and Politics . Leicester University Press, Leicester. ISBN 9780718500764