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I was educated at Berkhamsted School, where Michael Podro was an earlier alumnus, and then at Downing College, Cambridge, where I graduated with a first class degree in 1980. I was awarded a Bye Fellowship at Downing for outstanding doctoral research and received my PhD in 1985. Between 1985 and 1988, I was a Research Fellow at St Catharine’s College Cambridge, where my contemporaries included the late Duncan Tanner as well as Graham Shipley, Mark Ridley and Mark Ormrod. In 1988-91, I held a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship and was appointed to a lectureship at the University of Leicester in 1991, became a Reader in 1996 and Head of Department in 1998. During my five long years as Head, I introduced the study of Film into the department, restructured teaching. I was appointed the Founding Director of the Centre for the Study of the Country House in 2004 and will shortly hand over to my successor. I was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1992 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2002. In 2003 I was a visiting scholar back at St. Catharine's. I received a Leverhulme Trust Fellowship in 2007 and in 2009 was awarded a Visiting Scholarship at Yale University’s Center for British Art. In March 2010 I was awarded a half million pound grant from the AHRC/EPSRC for the Representing Re-Formation project and also received awards from the Paul Mellon Foundation and the Headley Foundation in 2010.

Contact:

Phillip Lindley MA, PhD (Cantab.), FSA

History of Art & Film

University of Leicester

LE1 7RH

Tel 0116 2522840

Email pgl1@le.ac.uk.