Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Giuliana Pieri joined Royal Holloway University of London in September 2000. She was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in 2025, having served as Executive Dean for the School of Arts and Humanities from July 2020, and led the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures between 2015 and 2018.
Giuliana benefited from an international education and is committed to widening access to global opportunities for all our students. After completing her Dott. Lett. degree at the University of Pavia, Italy, she moved to the UK to pursue her further studies. She holds an MA in the History and Theory of Art from the University of Kent at Canterbury (1995), and a PhD in Art History from the University of Oxford (1998). She began her university career at Cardiff University before moving to the Department of Italian Studies at Royal Holloway.
Giuliana's research interests are comparative and interdisciplinary, combining a focus on the intersection of the verbal and the visual with curatorial practice and its pedagogical applications. Her research and education focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century visual culture, cultural history, and popular literature. She has published widely on Anglo-Italian relations, art and culture in Fascist Italy, postwar Italian fashion and design, and crime fiction.
