Dr Aleksandra Koutny-Jones

Dr Aleksandra Koutny-Jones is an art historian with a particular specialism in early modern Central Europe.  She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge where she was awarded the  Zdanowich Price for Polish Studies.  Her first book Visual Cultures of Death in Central Europe (Brill 2015) explored the emergence of a cultural pre-occupation with a so-called "culture of death" in Poland-Lithuania from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries.  She has also published on themes relating to artistic transmission within Europe, dealing especially with macabre art, orientalising portraiture and the impact of the printed image. 

At ICE, Aleksandra teaches on courses relating to European art and architecture from the Middle Ages to c.1800.  Her teaching draws on her ongoing fieldwork, conducted in historical sites and museum collections across Europe.  Having previously worked in the museum and heritage sectors, she is keen to engage students in issues pertaining to display and conservation, alongside more traditional art historical approaches such as connoisseurship and iconography.  She previously supervised undergraduates at the University of Cambridge and lectured on a broad range of subjects at the University of Plymouth where she became an Associate of the Higher Education Academy.  Aleksandra is also a Member of the Society of Authors.