Warburg Institute appoints new Deputy Director
Flora Dennis will join the Warburg Institute in October as its new Deputy Director. She comes to us from the University of Sussex, where she is Professor of Cultural History in the Department of Art History and Director of Research in the Faculty of Media Arts and Humanities.
Flora works at the intersection of art, music and material culture in the Renaissance and is especially interested in the ways in which sound influenced the design, use and experience of domestic space. Her research has been supported by fellowships from the AHRC, Leverhulme Trust, Villa I Tatti, the Italian Academy at Columbia University and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
Flora brings a strong record of research leadership and close connections to the galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM) sector: she was co-curator of the V&A Exhibition, At Home in Renaissance Italy (2006-7), and co-instigated The Listening Gallery, an AHRC-funded collaboration between the V&A and the Royal College of Music that produced music for the museum’s Medieval and Renaissance Galleries. She also has long-standing interests in the History of the Book: her Cambridge PhD was on the production and consumption of music books in 16th-century Ferrara.
