Dr Christina Faraday is a historian of art and ideas, with a special interest in Tudor and Stuart Britain and the wider 16th and 17th-century world. She is a Research Fellow in History of Art at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and a BBC New Generation Thinker.
Her PhD (University of Cambridge, 2019) explored the idea of 'liveliness' or vividness in the art and culture of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A book based on this research will be published by the Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press in 2023. Alongside her PhD she worked part-time as a Curatorial Intern at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on the exhibition 'Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver' (2019). She previously graduated with a First Class BA in History of Art and Architecture at St John's College, Cambridge, and an MPhil in History of Art with Distinction, her research focusing on the symbolism of clocks and watches in Tudor portraits. Her academic work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including Renaissance Studies, British Art Studies and Print Quarterly.
Christina contributes regularly to popular media, including BBC Radio 3 and Apollo Magazine. In 2021 an article she wrote for The Telegraph was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards in the Arts and Entertainment category. She has appeared on podcasts including Not Just The Tudors, Talking Tudors and the Evening Standard's The Leader, and has presented a series of London history podcasts for PlaceCloud on Spotify. Christina teaches for the History of Art Department and History Faculty at Cambridge. She's also a Tutor for the Institute for Continuing Education at Cambridge, and has taught for The Wallace Collection in London.
Website: www.christinajfaraday.com
Twitter/Instagram: @cjfaraday
Photo credit: AHRC/Steven Heywood
Her PhD (University of Cambridge, 2019) explored the idea of 'liveliness' or vividness in the art and culture of Elizabethan and Jacobean England. A book based on this research will be published by the Paul Mellon Centre / Yale University Press in 2023. Alongside her PhD she worked part-time as a Curatorial Intern at the National Portrait Gallery, London, on the exhibition 'Elizabethan Treasures: Miniatures by Hilliard and Oliver' (2019). She previously graduated with a First Class BA in History of Art and Architecture at St John's College, Cambridge, and an MPhil in History of Art with Distinction, her research focusing on the symbolism of clocks and watches in Tudor portraits. Her academic work has been published in leading scholarly journals, including Renaissance Studies, British Art Studies and Print Quarterly.
Christina contributes regularly to popular media, including BBC Radio 3 and Apollo Magazine. In 2021 an article she wrote for The Telegraph was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards in the Arts and Entertainment category. She has appeared on podcasts including Not Just The Tudors, Talking Tudors and the Evening Standard's The Leader, and has presented a series of London history podcasts for PlaceCloud on Spotify. Christina teaches for the History of Art Department and History Faculty at Cambridge. She's also a Tutor for the Institute for Continuing Education at Cambridge, and has taught for The Wallace Collection in London.
Website: www.christinajfaraday.com
Twitter/Instagram: @cjfaraday
Photo credit: AHRC/Steven Heywood