Dr Christina Faraday (she/her), FSA FRHistS, is a historian of art and ideas, specialising in the art and material culture of the Tudor period. She has additional interests in contemporary art and literature that responds to historical art practices.
She is a Research Fellow in History of Art at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and a BBC New Generation Thinker. Her first book, Tudor Liveliness: Vivid Art in Post-Reformation England (Paul Mellon Centre and Yale University Press, 2023) was based on her AHRC-funded PhD research at the University of Cambridge. Her second book, The Story of Tudor Art (Head of Zeus, 2025), is the first book to cover fine and decorative arts across the whole Tudor century.
Christina contributes regularly to popular media, including BBC Radio 3 and Apollo Magazine, and hosts British Art Matters podcast for The Walpole Society, of which she is a Trustee. In 2021 she was shortlisted for the British Journalism Awards in the Arts and Entertainment category. During her PhD she worked part-time as a Curatorial Intern at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and as guest curator for the Heong Gallery at Downing College, Cambridge, she will curate the 2026 exhibition Tudor Contemporary.
