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Susan is an art historian and curator. She studied English at Somerville College, Oxford and European art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and gained her PhD from the University of London, and she was Formerly Curator of Paintings at the V&A.

She has authored several books in art history, including ‘The Ghost: A Cultural History (Tate Publishing), ‘Christina Rossetti: Poetry in Art,’ co-edited with Nicholas Tromans (Yale University Press), and most recently ‘Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape’, published by Thames & Hudson in August 2020.

Susan explains how our image of ghosts has changed over the centuries, from full bodied terrors, to naked royals, to shadows on a lens. But that despite there being many fashions for ghosts, our desire for them to exist, has never waned