Professor Alyce Mahon , Dr Amy Tobin and Dr Jennifer Powell
Our specialisms range across the Modern and Contemporary periods, with particular strengths in art theory, as well as British, French and North American art and sculpture. Professor Mahon is a specialist in Surrealism and its legacies, Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory, as well as the history of Erotic Art from the Enlightenment to the present. Dr Powell’s research centres on modern and contemporary British sculpture from c. 1900-1960, as well as Anglo-French and Anglo-American exchanges and exhibition cultures particularly after 1945. Dr Tobin’s research has focused on art and feminism in the 1970s, particularly in relation to collaboration and collectivity, but she is broadly interested in activist and experimental practices as well as questions around art and representation, from identity politics to technologies of reproduction.
Professor Mahon, Dr Powell and Dr Tobin work closely with other Modernists and Contemporary Art specialists across the University. Our Modern and Contemporary specialists also regularly collaborate with, and contribute teaching to, the interdepartmental centres for Film and Screen, Gender Studies and Latin American Studies. We also advise on and support the exhibition, display and discussion of Modern and Contemporary Art across the University, its colleges and beyond.
Associated Research Staff:
- Dr Sofia Gotti (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
- Dr Aline Guillermet (Junior Research Fellow at King's College)
- Dr Nicola Kozicharow (Schulman Research Fellow, Trinity Hall)
- Dr Claudia Tobin (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow)
- Dr Deniz Turker (Affiliated Lecturer, Department of History of Art & Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
- Dr Mary-Ann Middelkoop (Affiliated Lecturer and TA)
