Art History

Michael Walsh

Research Area: 'Conflict and Culture':

  • The Art History and Cultural Heritage of Famagusta on the island of Cyprus (with emphasis on Digital Humanities and Heritage Modelling)
  • British and imperial cultural production in the first two decades of the 20th century (with an emphasis on music, literature and painting)

Roger Nelson

Research area: Modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art 

  • Historiography and method;  translation, intermediality, decoloniality, curatorial practices, and under-studied artists
  • How artworks engage with art-historical images, ideas and information

Sushma Griffin

Research Areas:  Art and visual culture in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Asia with an emphasis on modernity and its contemporary legacy

  • Histories of Photography and Film
  • Empires, imperialism and colonialism
  • Ecocritical Art History in South and Southeast Asia

Marc Gloede

Research Area: Contemporary Art, Curatorial Practices and Cultural Economies in Southeast Asia

  • Valuing Art in Singapore and Southeast Asia: an interdisciplinary investigation of value formation and the economic dynamics of cultural production
  • Lively Laboratories: artistic and curatorial laboratories as experimental infrastructures and sites of knowledge production in Southeast Asia
  • Particular interest in art and curatorial education, institutional critique, and criticism.

Yifan Zou

Premodern Chinese Art and Architecture

  • Artworks and built environments
  • Interplay between diverse artistic media Environmental engagement of art and architecture Experience of making and perceiving artworks and physical spaces

Alexandra Dalferro

Research Area: Material and Visual Cultures in Southeast Asia

  • Craft/art practices, politics, and world-making; gender and sexuality; style, fashion and dress; vernacular aesthetics; human and non-human relations; affect and the senses

Iola Lenzi

Research Area: Modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art.

  • Transregional parallels in early contemporary Southeast Asian art  
  • Early Vietnamese contemporary art
  • Public space and audiences in contemporary Southeast Asian art.

Ellice Wu

Research Area: Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Britain

  • Women Artists 
  • Gender, Display and Representation 
  • Cross-cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia

Ziying Cui

Research Area: Chinese dance studies

  • Cultural hybridity, local and transnational Chinese ballet modernity.
  • Female Embodiment in Contemporary Chinese Film, Novels, and Performances.
  • Russian Emigres, Republican Shanghai, and Transregional Dance Modernity.

Louis Ho

Research Area: Contemporary art of Southeast Asia and queer art.

  • Queer art in Singapore

Adeleine Daysor

Research Area: Contemporary Art Practices

  • Painting and Material Studies  
  • Landscapes and Site-responsive Art
  • Artist Residencies and Community Arts