Lecture in Renaissance Art History at Birkbeck
June 18 2025
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Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
Birkbeck, a part of the University of London, are hiring a Lecturer in Renaissance Art History.
According to the job description:
As Lecturer, you will convene and deliver the Autumn term lectures for the team-taught Level 4 module, ‘The Artwork in History’, and contribute lectures to the team-taught Level 5 module, ‘Art and Devotion in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’.
You will also convene the L6 dissertation module and deliver 2 to 3 lectures as part of the Level 7 module, ‘Frameworks: Histories and Theories of Art, Architecture, Photography’. In addition, you will be required to supervise both BA and MA Dissertations, and other student research projects and provide pastoral support as student tutor. You will also be encouraged to become involved in the Murray Seminar on Medieval and Renaissance Art series.
The job comes with a salary £43,636 rising to £60,018 per annum and applications must be in by 1st July 2025.
Good luck if you're applying!
Update - Bendor adds: it's interesting and a bit depressing to see how the salary for this position corresponds to the museum sector. Unfortunately, UK museum salaries are known to be too low, especially by international standards. But this highlights that they're too low even by domestic standards. An equivalent position, say senior curator, in a major London museum would be paid barely over £40k, with no flexibility to go higher (as we saw recently for example at Tate Britain, for their curator of British art). What can be done?
