Janet Stewart - Culture Durham

Janet Stewart, Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities – Durham University

The Executive Dean is responsible for the strategic development and financial performance of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. A key academic leader, supporting and enhancing research and teaching performance within the Faculty. and an important ambassadorial role for the Faculty and the University.Janet joined Durham in 2014 from the University of Aberdeen as Professor of German and Visual Culture in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (MLAC).She was the founding Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture and part of the team that successfully bid to establish a Leverhulme Doctoral Training Centre for Visual Culture in Durham. Janet’s research interests lie in visual culture, the energy humanities and Austrian and German cultural history.