Caroline Levitt

Dr. Caroline Levitt is a Senior Lecturer and Head of the History of Art Department at The Courtauld Institute of Art. She specializes in 19th-20th century French art and literature, focusing on word-image relationships, modern art and the sacred, and non-painterly media. Her research includes projects on artists’ annotations of printed materials and Le Corbusier’s interdisciplinary work.

Education: BA in French and History of Art (UCL, 2004), MA and PhD at The Courtauld (2005–2008). She supervises PhDs on topics ranging from French jewellery to Proust’s influence on art. Active in public programs, she contributed to films on surrealist journals and Gauguin’s manuscripts. She chairs the Word and Image Research Cluster and participates in groups like the Sculptural Processes and Sacred Traditions seminars.

Recent publications explore Picasso’s Guernica, Le Corbusier’s tapestries, and Apollinaire’s intermedial works. Her teaching includes modules on modernism and the sacred, and Le Corbusier’s art. She balances scholarly rigor with engagement in institutional and public art initiatives.