Professor Claudia Hopkins

Claudia is Professor of Art History at the University of Edinburgh and Honorary Professor of Hispanic Art at Durham University, where she directed the Zurbarán Centre for Spanish and Latin American Art from 2020 to 2023. A specialist in Spanish art, Orientalism, and Anglo-Spanish cultural relations, her books include Art and Identity in Spain 1833–1956: The Orient Within (2024) and Hot Art, Cold War (2020, co-edited with I.B. Whyte). She curated the exhibition Romantic Spain: Genaro Pérez Villaamil and David Roberts at Madrid's Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in 2021; its catalogue won the Jonathan Brown Award. She has edited the Getty-funded journal Art in Translation since 2023.