Tim Barringer is Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art and Director of Graduate Studies. He specializes in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and visual culture of Britain and the British Empire, American art and museum studies. Following positions at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Universities of London and Birmingham in Great Britain, he came to Yale in 1998. His books include Reading the Pre-Raphaelites (1998), Men at Work (2005) and Opulence and Anxiety (2007), catalogue for an exhibition at Compton Verney. He co-authored, with Andrew Wilton, American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1825-1880 (London: Tate, 2002) and was co-curator of the exhibition. In 2004-5 he was a Fellow at the Getty Research Institute working on a book project, “Art and Music in Britain”. In 2006 he curated, with Eleanor Hughes, a related exhibition, “Art and Music in Britain: Four Encounters” (Yale Center for British Art; see www.artandmusic.yale.edu), and with Michael Hatt organized a series of ten lecture-recitals on the subject of art and music at the YCBA.

He is co-curator, with Gillian Forrester and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz, of a major loan exhibition, “Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds,” 2007. The accompanying volume is published by Yale University Press.

Tim Barringer has been active as an advisor of Ph.D. dissertations at Yale, has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies and Director of Graduate Studies in the History of Art Department and was winner of the Sarai Ribicoff teaching prize in 2004. In 2006 he held the Power Lectureship at the University of Sydney, Australia, and in May 2007 was the visiting Meaker Professor at the University of Bristol, UK.

Selected Publications
Opulence and Anxiety: Landscape Paintings from the Royal Academy (Kineton, Warwickshire: Compton Verney, 2007)

Men at Work: Art and Labour in Victorian Britain (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006).  Winner of the Historians of British Art book prize, best book on British art after 1800, 2007

Art and the British Empire, edited with Geoff Quilley and Douglas Fordham (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007).

Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds, co-edited with Gillian Forrester and Barbaro Martinez-Ruiz (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007)

‘Sonic Spectacles of Empire: The Audio-Visual Nexus, Delhi-London, 1911-12’ in E. Edwards, et al, eds., Sensible Objects: Material Culture, the Senses, Colonialism, Museums (London: Berg, 2006).