Dr Kate Grandjouan

Kate is a British art historian. She has lived extensively in France and the US and has degrees from British, French and American universities. She would say that these transnational journeys have shaped her intellectual outlook. She has work on European art in the Early Modern era. She writes about the image as a powerful tool for indoctrination and as a vector of national and cultural myths. Her area of specialisation is art in Britain c.1660-1830. Current research relates to a book called ‘Hogarth’s French’. It examines the relationship between visual satire and national identity. In September 2019 she joined the New College of Humanities as Lecturer and Course Leader in Art History. This year she was teaching two courses on European Painting (European Painting from Chardin to Matisse and The Elegiac Landscape).  She is continuing to work at the Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London) as an Associate Lecturer. From January 2019, she will be working with Esther Chadwick on a BA2 course called Artists, Radicals, Mystics: European Art, 1760-1830.