Helen Hills

Hills edited Open Arts Journal, Issue 6: Baroque Naples: place and displacement, Winter 2017/8

Helen Hills was a guest contributor to the BBC radio programme In Our Time on The Baroque Movement in November 2008. Night Waves Invited discussant on the 'Baroque': 20 March 2013.

Helen Hills studied for a BA Hons in Modern History at the University of Oxford. She gained both an MA (Distinction) and PhD in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London; during the latter she taught at Queen’s University, Canada. She was appointed Assistant Professor of Art History at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US (1993–97) and Senior Lecturer in History of Art at University of Manchester (1998–2005), she joined the University of York in 2005 as Anniversary Reader in the History of Art. She was promoted to Professor of History of Art at the University of York in 2008. Hence she was the first woman professor of History of Art at the University of York.

Helen Hills (born 1960) is a British art historian and academic. She was appointed Anniversary Reader of Art History at the University of York in 2005 and promoted to Professor of History of Art in 2008. Hence she was the first woman professor of Art History at that University Before this Helen Hills taught at the Universities of Keele and Manchester in the UK, at Queen's University in Canada and at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has published numerous books and articles on art and architectural history. She has particular research interests in the Baroque art movement, and was a guest contributor to the BBC radio programme In Our Time about The Baroque Movement in November 2008 and "Night Waves" on 'The Baroque'.