Christiana Payne is Professor of History of Art at Oxford Brookes University, where she has been teaching since 1994. She is a former Honorary Secretary of the Association of Art Historians and a current Trustee of the Marc Fitch Fund. She has contributed articles and reviews to Apollo, the Burlington Magazine, the Oxford Art Journal, and Visual Culture in Britain. Her curating experience includes major exhibitions and displays at the Yale Center for British Art, Tate Britain, the Djanogly Art Gallery, University of Nottingham and the Barber Institute, University of Birmingham. She lives in Oxford.