Professor Richard Woodfield is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Departments of Art History at the Universities of Birmingham and Glasgow and is Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Prior to his retirement he was Research Professor for the Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design. He is the founder/editor of the Journal of Art Historiography,which is now based in Birmingham. This project is run in conjunction with a series of yearly colloquia, of which three have been held so far in Glasgow and the next was held in Birmingham, 26 & 27 March 2012. He will also edit Ashgate’s new series ‘Monographs in Art Historiography’. The press release for the series is at http://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/art-historiography-monographs.pdf.

He is working on a monograph provisionally titled ‘Gombrich amongst the  Anglophones’, which is intended to set his work in its Viennese context. He is particularly interested in the development of sematology, first proposed by  Heinrich Gomperz and then developed into a robust form of semiotics by Karl Bühler. In relation to that he is preoccupied with the work of the Vienna School  of Art History, particularly with a series of problems formulated by Julius von  Schlosser and colleagues.

He has edited Gombrich on Art and Psychology, Gombrich’s Reflections on the History of Art (1987), The Essential Gombrich (1996), Ernst Gombrich, Dal mio tempo: Città, maestri, incontri (1999) and constructed the Gombrich Archive. He has made a selection of his papers available on academia.edu.

He has been Secretary General and First Vice-President of the International Association of Aesthetics, Honorary International Vice-President of the Hungarian Association of Aesthetics, Secretary and Honorary Vice-President of the British Society of Aesthetics and Honorary Member of the Italian Association of Aesthetics.

He has edited Point (the British Art & Design research journal), the Journal of Visual Arts Practice and has been Guardian of the International Association of Aesthetics Yearbook Website.