Joanna Woodall read history at the Univers
ity of York\, with a year abroad at Vassar College. She trained as an art h
istorian at the Courtauld Institute and began her PhD at the University of
Cambridge\, as Speelman Fellow in Dutch and Flemish Art. Having spent sever
al years in curatorial work at Christ Church Picture Gallery in Oxford\, an
d a year on a Leverhulme Fellowship at the University of Leiden\, she joine
d the academic staff of the Courtauld Institute in 1986 as Lecturer in Neth
erlandish Art. From 2002-2005 she was Deputy Director\, Head of Studies\, w
ith responsibility for the teaching and research programmes\, widening part
icipation and staff development. She has currently returned to her research
and teaching\, in which she is committed to a theoretically informed\, his
torical analysis of visual materials. She has published widely in Art H
istory\, the Berliner Jahrbuch\, the Leids Kunsthistorisc
h Jaarboek and the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. Her e
dited book:Portraiture: Facing the Subject (Manchester University
Press\, 1997) has become a
standard work on the subject.
Joanna Woodall is interested in the creative and educational potential of exhibiti ons. In 2003-4 she helped to curate\, and contributed to the catalogue of\, Rubens. A Touch of Brilliance\, an important exhibition of oil sketches and drawings in which the Courtauld Institute and the Hermi tage Museum\, Saint Petersburg\, successfully collaborated. One of her form er PhD students also wrote for the catalogue of this show. In 2004-5 studen ts taking her MA option on concepts of the artist in early modern period we re involved with the genesis and catalogue entries for Self Portrait. R enaissance to Contemporary. In 2002 she co-organized\, with Rose-Marie San Juan\, an international conference at the Courtauld Institute entitled 'Double-Sight. Copies\, Likenesses and Translation in Early Modern Vis ual Culture.’ She is a member of the editorial board of the Nederl ands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek. In 2007 she published Anthonis Mor. Art and Authority\, which analyses the shifting connections between t he ‘exterior’ face and ‘inner’ virtue in the early modern period.
Funded by the Netherlands Studies Endowment Fund\, Faculty of Arts\, UBC
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