Amanda Sciampacone
Amanda Sciampacone is an art historian who explores the intersections between British art, visual culture, medicine and the environment in the long nineteenth century. She has published articles and essays on the art and visual culture of cholera and other pandemics and medical climatology and the British Empire. She has taught a range of modules, including European art from antiquity to the present, the theory and methodologies of art history, and studies of London’s museums. In 2018, she curated the exhibition Art, Air and Illness at the Lanchester Research Gallery of Coventry University. She has previously worked at Birkbeck, University of London, the University of Warwick, and Queen Mary, University of London, and is currently a lecturer and staff tutor in art history at the Open University.