Richenda Roberts

Richenda Roberts is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of History of Art within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Warwick, where she has been teaching since 2017. Previously, she taught in the History of Art department at the University of Birmingham. Her academic work spans teaching, research, and curatorial practice, with a strong focus on British modern and contemporary art, particularly in relation to war, pacifism, and esoteric traditions.

Her research interests include:

• The representation of war and pacifism in visual culture
• British art, design, and architecture (1840–1940), especially connections to magic, occultism, and spiritualism
• Decolonisation of the Western art canon
• Curatorial practices and exhibition development
• Innovative methodologies in art history

Her current research explores how interwar artists used satirical references to occultism to express pacifist ideas amid political unrest. Her recent publications are primarily exhibition catalogues and scholarly contributions on figures like Evelyn De Morgan and C.R.W. Nevinson. These works reflect a consistent engagement with themes of war, morality, symbolism, and artistic resistance. The publications span from 2014 to 2022, showing sustained scholarly activity in British modernist and war-related art.

She has taught a wide range of modules including:

• Introduction to Art History
• Landscape
• Contemporary Art
• Representing War: British Art and the First World War
• The Thirties: Arts and Society in Inter-War Britain
• Histories, Theories and Practices of Art Museums and Galleries
• MA Academic Preparation for Art Historians

Dr Roberts has curated and advised on several exhibitions related to British war art, demonstrating active engagement beyond the classroom. Though no formal students are listed, her supervision of MA-level preparation suggests mentorship of postgraduate researchers. There is no mention of grants or scientific awards in the provided text.