Dana Arnold

Dana Rebecca Arnold, (born 22 June 1961) is a British art historian and academic, specialising in architectural history. Since 2016, she has been Professor of Art History at the University of East Anglia. She previously taught at the University of Leeds, the University of Southampton and the University of Middlesex.

Early life and education Arnold was born on 22 June 1961. She studied at Westfield College, London, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree in 1983. Her doctoral thesis was titled "The architect and the metropolis: the work of James and Decimus Burton in London and Dublin, c. 1800-1840". She was also head of research for its School of Humanities between 2003 and 2012. and director of its Centre for Ideas. In 2016, she moved to the University of East Anglia where she had been appointed Professor of Art History.

Arnold was a guest professor at Tianjin University in China, and honorary professor at the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. She has published books, essays and articles on architecture, architectural history, imperialism and historiography. Arnold describes her research as a:

On 4 April 2006, Arnold was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).

Selected publications A Short Book About Art, May 2015. The Spaces of the Hospital: Spatiality and Urban Change in London 1680-1820. Routledge, London, 2013. Rethinking Architectural Historiography, editors: Dana Arnold, Elvan Altan Ergot, Belgin Turan Ozkaya, Routledge, London, 2006 Rural Urbanism: London landscapes in the early nineteenth century. Manchester University Press, 2006. Cultural identities and the aesthetics of Britishness, editor, Manchester University Press, 2004 Tracing Architecture: The Aesthetics of Antiquarianism, Wiley & Sons Publishers, 2003 Art History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004. Reading Architectural History. Routledge, London, 2002. Re-presenting the Metropolis: Architecture, Urban Experience and Social Life in London 1800-1840. Ashgate, Aldershot, 2000. The Georgian Country House: Architecture Landscape and Society. Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1998.