We are very proud to have such an exceptional faculty. Not everyone listed teaches every year,
but this is the list of those who we are happy to include:
ART, ARCHITECTURE & HISTORY
PIERS BAKER-BATES is a Research Associate in Art History at the Open University, UK. He is co-editor of The Spanish Presence in Sixteenth-Century Italy (2015) and the author of ‘Sebastiano del Piombo and the World of Spanish Rome.’
LOUISA BUCK MA Cambridge, MA Courtauld Institute, Journalist, broadcaster and art critic, reviewer for Radio 4’s “Front Row”. Author of “Moving Targets : A Users’ Guide to British Art Now” – published by Tate Gallery Publications and “Owning Art: the Contemporary Art Collectors Handbook” Turner Prize Judge 2005. Contemporary Art Correspondent for The Art Newspaper and a regular contributor to Artforum, Vogue and The Guardian.
JANE DA MOSTO MA (Oxon.), MSc Imperial College London. Co-author of ‘The Science of Saving Venice’.
FRANK DABELL, is a British art historian, specializes in Renaissance art and was a Fellow of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has published extensively since the mid-1980s and is completing his book on Piero della Francesca. He has taught at Temple Rome since 2003.
REBECCA DARLEY Associate Professor in Global History Leeds University and is a professional writer, researcher and editor, with degrees in History, Archaeology and Byzantine Studies. and more than ten years’ experience publishing and teaching in the UK Higher Education system. She works as Lecturer in Global History (500-1500 CE) at the University of Leeds and external doctoral supervisor at Birkbeck, University of London.
DAVID EKSERDJIAN Professor of Art History and Head of Department at the University of Leicester.
CHARLIE GERE is a British academic who is professor of media theory and history at The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts at The University of Lancaster and previously, director of research at the Institute for Cultural Research. He is author of several books and articles on new media art and technology, continental philosophy, and technology. His main research interest is in the cultural effects and meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to post-conceptual art and philosophy.
NICHOLAS HALL MA (Oxon) Art dealer and critic based in New York. former International Head of Old Master Pictures at Christie’s .
CHARLES HOPE MA, D.Phil., Former Director of the Warburg Institute, London University. Formerly Slade Professor of Fine Art, Oxford University. An Organiser of the Genius of Venice exhibition at the Royal Academy, author of “Titian”, and other publications.
ANDREW HOPKINS was previously Assistant Director of the British School at Rome, from 1998 to 2002, and for many years now Professor and Chair of Architectural History at the University of L'Aquila. Part of his PhD (Courtauld Institute 1995) on Venetian architecture was awarded the Essay Medal of 1996 by the Society of Architectural Historians (GB). Andrew was a Fellow at Harvard University's Villa I Tatti in Florence in 2003-2004; Paul Mellon Senior Visiting Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. in 2009; Getty Research Institute Fellow 2014 and Beaufort Fellow, St. John’s College Cambridge 2014.
JEREMY HOWARD MA (Oxon.), MA Courtauld Institute, is a lecturer in Art History at The University of Buckingham. He has published many articles on aspects of eighteenth and nineteenth-century collecting with particular reference to The Grand Tour. GEOFFREY HUMPHRIES Portrait-figure artist, has lived in Venice for 40 years and exhibited throughout Europe.
VIVIEN LOVELL BA, FRSA, Hon FRIBA, is a contemporary art curator specialising in the field of permanent and temporary public commissions. Director of Modus Operandi Art Consultants, formerly Founder Director of Public Art Commissions Agency, and co-publisher of “Public: Art: Space” (Merrell Holberton 1998).
WILLIAM LORIMER Christie’s Continental Furniture specialist, former director of Education department and NADFAS lecturer.
ADAM LOWE Artist, director and founder of Factum Arte. His artistic work has been extensively exhibited and he has had large scale survey exhibitions in St Petersburg (Marble Palace, Russian State 1999) and Mexico DF (Museo National de Arte Grafica, 2004). He is considered one of the leading innovators in the field of digital mediation.
NIGEL MCGILCHRIST MA(Oxon.), has lived and worked as an Art Historian in Rome for thirty years. He has taught at Rome University and been Director of the Anglo-Italian Institute, and External Consultant to the Superintendence of Fine Arts of the Italian Government. Lectures widely in the USA on art and archaeology at museums and universities. He is Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Blue Guides series, and currently writing the new Blue Guide to the monuments and archaeology of the Greek Islands.
DAVID NEWBOLD MA (Oxon.), MA(Reading) Linguistics, teaches English at University of Verona, author of English language teaching materials, education broadcaster, journalist, correspondent in Italy for The Times Educational Supplement.
LESLIE PRIMO MA, University College, London. During his studies he specialised in early Medieval and Renaissance studies, including, Italian Renaissance Drawing, Art and Architecture in Europe 1250-1400 Art and Architecture in Europe 1400-1500, Medici and Patronage, Narrative Painting in the Age of Giotto, the work of Peter Paul Rubens focusing on his paintings of the Judgement of Paris, and Greek Myth in paintings.
SARAH QUILL has worked between Venice and London for many years to create a photographic archive of Venetian architecture, sculpture and daily life. Her book, Ruskin’s Venice: The Stones Revisited was followed by a new edition, which has been translated into Italian and Chinese. She lectures regularly, principally on Venetian subjects, and is a trustee of the Venice in Peril Fund, the British committee for the preservation of Venice.
ANNA SOMERS-COCKS OBE, Founder Editor of the Art Newspaper and former chairman of Venice in Peril.
SUSAN STEER MA, Ph.D. Visiting lecturer in History of Art for the University of Warwick’s “Venice term” BA and MA programmes. Susan has also lectured in the History of Art for the University of Bristol and has worked as both researcher and editor of the UK’s national inventory of European paintings on behalf of the University of Glasgow and the National Gallery.
DR BEN STREET is a freelance art historian, lecturer and writer based in London. He lectures on art old and new for the National Gallery, Tate, Christie’s Education, the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dulwich Picture Gallery and Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
DR CLAUDIA TOBIN is a writer, art historian and curator based at the University of Cambridge where she teaches modern and contemporary literature and visual cultures. Her recent publications include Oh, to be a Painter! (2021), Modernism and Still Life: Artists, Writers, Dancers (2020) and she is co-editor of Ways of Drawing: Artists' Perspectives and Practices (2019)
DR. THOMAS LEO TRUE (Cantab), MPhil, PhD is Director of the Hay Castle Museum and former Assistant Director of the British School at Rome, where he is currently Research Fellow. He has led research and heritage projects across the Mediterranean, including collaborating with Foster + Partners on the inauguration of Musée Narbo Via, Narbonne. Tom has been Visiting Lecturer at the University of Cambridge, the Rome Centre for Classical and Renaissance Studies, University of Kent; and John Cabot University. His most recent book is Roma e gli artisti stranieri (XVI- XX s.), Artemide, 2019.
NICOLA TURNER-INMAN is Assistant Curator of Decorative Arts (Projects) at the Royal Collection.
ANDREW TYLEY BSc, B Arch, M Arch (Yale), ARB, RIBA, Associate Director at Richard Rogers Partnership. Architects responsible for Centre Pompidou, the Lloyds Building, London and the Millennium Project, London.
LOUISA WARMAN BA Courtauld Institute, MA University of Warwick, is an Art Historian resident in Venice since 2000. She works as a translator for art history publications and leads Renaissance and Medieval art history tours in the city.
PETER YOUNIE MA Cambridge (English), BA London (History of Art). Co-founder of the chandelier experts, Cameron Peters Fine Lighting. Formerly UK agent for Venini and the UK reseller for Barovier & Toso. Currently UK agent for Carlo Moretti.
DR MARIE-LOUISE LEONARD Research Fellow at Ca' Foscari University of Venice.She is a social and cultural historian of early modern Italy. Her primary research interests are health, disease, public health, and occupational health. Ill-health, Work and Occupational Health in Early Modern Italy (ca.1550-1750) Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia.
JEREMY BOUDREAU (MA) joined the Senior Management Team of the British Institute of Florence as Head of History of Art in 2014. After graduating with a degree in Museum Education from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, Jeremy completed his MA in Art History at Syracuse University as a Florence Fellow. He is an accredited Lecturer for The Arts Society, a member of the Association of Art Historians (AAH) and a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM)
MUSIC
PATRICK CRAIG is a counter tenor, harpist, teacher, lecturer, and conductor. He is a Vicar Choral at St Paul's Cathedral and over twenty years has sung more than a thousand concerts with the Tallis Scholars.
JEREMY SAMS BA, Director and translator. Opera translations include Wagner’ s Ring, Mozart’s Figaro, Magic Flute and Cosi fan Tutte (ENO), Lehar’s MerryWidow (Covent Garden). Frequent broadcaster on opera and other music including his series, “Sams at the Opera” for Radio 3. Recent work as a director includes The Wizard of Oz at the London Palladium. He is directing the opera Die Fledermaus at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York in 2014.
GLOBAL ISSUES
DR FAWAZ GERGES Professor of Middle East Politics and International Relations, London School of Economics .
PAUL WILLIAMS Research Fellow in the Department of meteorology, Reading University. A leading environmental specialist, he was recently the lead author on climate change commissioned by the European parliament.
ARTHUR WOOD BSc (Econ) - LSE; MBA - SDA Bocconi Italy, and HEC France is a founding partner of Total Impact Advisors in Geneva. He is a recognised innovator in social finance and is frequently invited to speak and write on innovative financing vehicles for social purposes.
COOKERY
MARIKA CONTALDO SEGUSO Graduated from the Institute of Culinary Education in New York she started working at the well-known Chantarelle, where she learnt techniques and secrets of French cooking from the famous chef owner David Waltuck. She now runs her internationally-renowned cookery school, in Venice on the Lido.
LITERATURE
GREGORY DOWLING MA (Oxon.), is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Venice, has written thrillers set in Italy and England, translator.
KATE HEXT is Associate Professor of English at the University of Exeter, where she teaches modern literature and film. Her second book, Wilde in the Dream Factory, will be published by Oxford University Press in March 2024. She is editor of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays for Oxford World's Classics (August 2024).
PHOTOGRAPHY
MARK SMITH is a photographer, based in Venice, publications include “The Nude: a Visual Reference for the Artist” and “Palaces in Venice”.
EVA VERMANDEL The Photography classes are led by Eva Vermandel (evavermandel.com) who is a renowned portrait and fine art photographer. Her lectures offer a concise overview of history of photography and its impact on society, as well as covering core technical knowledge of the medium and providing insights into key techniques that lift a photograph onto a more sophisticated level.
The students can then put all this knowledge into practice through a workshop where they learn how to use the camera on their smartphone more creatively, applying it as a tool to observe everything around us more intensely and through that attain a deeper sense of awareness of the everyday.
WORLD CINEMA
RYAN GILBEY is film critic of the New Statesman , and a regular contributor to the Sunday Times, The Guardian and Sight & Sound. He read English and American Literature at Kent University in Canterbury and was named Young Film Journalist of the Year by the Independent in 1993. He is the author of several books, including “It Don’t Worry Me”, about 1970s US cinema, and a monograph on Groundhog Day in the BFI Modern Classics series.
BOYD VAD DER HOEIJ has worked in the film industry for over 20 years and is now based in Luxembourg. He was a contributing critic for U.S. trade paper Variety before moving to The Hollywood Reporter in 2013. His lectures on cinema are memorable, brilliant and eye-opening
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