Professor Helen Hills | |
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Born | 1960 |
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Alma mater | University of Oxford, Courtauld Institute of Art |
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Discipline | History of Art |
Helen Hills (born 1960) is a British art historian and academic. She was appointed Anniversary Reader of Art History at the University of York in 2005 and promoted to Professor of History of Art in 2008,making her the first woman professor of Art History there. [1]
Prior to this,Hills taught at the Universities of Keele and Manchester in the UK,at Queen's University in Canada and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published numerous books and articles on art and architectural history. She has particular research interests in the baroque,and was a guest contributor to the BBC radio programme In Our Time about The Baroque Movement in November 2008 and "Night Waves" on 'The Baroque'. [2]
Helen Hills was educated at Cambridgeshire High School for Girls (now Long Road Sixth Form College) and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Modern History from the University of Oxford. She gained both a Master of Arts (MA) (Distinction) and PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art,University of London;as she was finishing her PhD,she took a sessional appointment at Queen’s University,Canada. She taught in the Adult Education Department at Keele University,and then accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Art History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,USA.
Hills then returned to England to work initially as Junior Lecturer in History of Art at University of Manchester (1998–2005) before being promoted to Senior Lecturer. She joined the University of York in 2005 as Anniversary Reader in the History of Art. She was promoted to Professor of History of Art at the University of York in 2008. [1] She was the first woman professor of History of Art at York.
Helen Hills has published numerous books and articles on art and architectural history,including:
Hills edited Open Arts Journal, Issue 6: Baroque Naples: place and displacement, Winter 2017/8 [21]
Helen Hills was a guest contributor to the BBC radio programme In Our Time on The Baroque Movement (ironically enough, as she does not believe in a 'baroque movement') in November 2008. [2] Night Waves Invited discussant on the 'Baroque': 20 March 2013. Photographs contributed by Helen Hills to the Conway Library are currently being digitised by the Courtauld Institute of Art, as part of the Courtauld Connects project. [22]
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