MPhil/PhD Art History and Visual Culture

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.