2019-2020 NEH Visiting Professor
Michael Charlesworth is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, he obtained his Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Art at the University of Kent in Canterbury. He edited and wrote lengthy introductions for two 3-volume compilations of primary historical sources: The English Garden, 1550-1910 (1993) and The Gothic Revival, 1720-1870 (2002). His books The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer: Landscape, Literature and Buddhism (2018) and Derek Jarman (2011) explore the place of gardens in the imaginative work of the two protagonists.