Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)
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Dr Christina Faraday is a Research Fellow History of Art at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge and a Course Tutor at the Institute for Continuing Education. She teaches courses on Tudor and Jacobean art, and art theory from Plato to now, at the University of Cambridge and for institutions such as The Wallace Collection, and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. In 2019 she was selected as one of the AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinkers, a scheme which gives early career researchers the opportunity to share their work with wider audiences on BBC Radio 3. Her book, Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England, is out with Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre in Spring 2023.
From 2017-2019 she worked part time as a curatorial intern at the National Portrait Gallery in London, on the exhibition ‘Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver’ (February 2019 - May 2019).
Dr Faraday aims to make the classes entertaining and engaging, with opportunities for discussion and collaboration, as well as field trips whenever possible.
Liveliness in sixteenth century English art.
Visual art and music in sixteenth-century England.
Transmedial studies
The public value of the humanities.
