Susan Madocks Lister MA, Head of Art History
Susan Madocks Lister studied art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art ( University of London), the University of Manchester, and the European University Institute, Florence. She has been a resident of Florence for over thirty years during which time she has lectured extensively on Renaissance art at various institutions of higher education where she has also served in directorial positions. Her special research interests lie in art as an instrument of statecraft 1400-1700, and Anglo-Italian cultural contacts in the seventeenth century.
Frank Nero MA is a PhD candidate and teaching fellow in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art history at Florida State University’s campus in Florence. He is currently writing his dissertation on the function, symbolism, and patronage of glazed terracotta sculpture in the charitable institutions of Renaissance Tuscany.
Dr Angela Oberer PhD graduated from Bonn University with a Master’s thesis on "The Cross Relic at the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista in Venice". Her doctoral thesis, submitted at the Technische Universitaet of Berlin, is entitled "The Fresco Cycle of Signorelli and Sodoma in Monte Oliveto Maggiore". Angela has been teaching Art History for various colleges and universities since 2003.
Dr Alan Pascuzzi PhD is a professor of Fine Art and Renaissance Art History at New York University in Florence. A Fullbright scholar to Florence, he obtained his PhD from Washington University with specializations in Greek and Roman Sculpture and Italian Renaissance Art. A professional artist as well, he has several permanent frescoes, paintings and sculptures in the centre of Florence and other cities in Italy.
Ashya Lane-Spollen, History of Art Assistant
BA Theology, graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2010 and joined the British Institute as History of Art Assistant in 2011.