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Professor Janet Stewart is Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities and Professor of Visual Culture and German at Durham University. She holds a Ph.D in German and Sociology from the University of Glasgow and previously held positions at the University of Aberdeen. As founding Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture, she leads interdisciplinary research initiatives.
Her research focuses on visual culture, German literature, cultural sociology, and urban history, with current work exploring energy humanities and petroleum culture. She is author of 'Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos’s Cultural Criticism' (2000) and 'Public Speaking in the City' (2009), and co-editor of the 'Routledge Handbook of Energy Humanities'.
Professor Stewart's publications demonstrate consistent focus on cultural representations of modernity, with recent work examining energy systems through sociological frameworks. Her articles bridge visual culture, urban studies, and energy humanities methodologies.
Awards & Honors:
- Junior Fellowship, International Research Centre for Cultural Sciences Vienna (1995)
- Leverhulme Trust Study Abroad Studentship (1997-1998)
- Editor of German Life and Letters
- Advisory Board Member: Austrian Studies Yearbook, Journal of Austrian Studies
- AHRC Peer Review College member
She supervises graduate students including Lenka Schmalisch and leads the Climate Imaginaries research project funded by the Swedish Research Council. As curator of the 'OilScapes' exhibition and co-organizer of international Petrocultures conferences, she builds interdisciplinary collaborations.
