Alixe Bovey FSA was born on 1974 and is a Canadian medieval art historian and Dean and Deputy Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art, a college of the University of London.
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Alixe Bovey's research has been chiefly concerned with pictorial narratives and their cultural and literary context.
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In 2008, Bovey presented the BBC television series In Search of Medieval Britain, in which she retraced a series of journeys through Britain in the Middle Ages using the Gough Map.
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Alixe Bovey studied history and medieval studies at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.
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Alixe Bovey was awarded an MA and PhD in History of Art at the Courtauld in London.
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Alixe Bovey worked as a curator in the British Library's Department of Manuscripts for four years following her PhD.
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Alixe Bovey was a Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer in Medieval History in the University of Kent's School of History.
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Alixe Bovey rejoined the Courtauld as Head of Research and Senior Lecturer in Medieval History of Art in 2015.
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Alixe Bovey was appointed Dean and Deputy Director in November 2020.
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Alixe Bovey was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship in 2014, providing financial support for her project Giants in the City: Mythic History as Material Culture in London from the Middle Ages to the 21st Century'.
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Alixe Bovey currently serves on the Editorial and Advisory Board of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes.
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Alixe Bovey is a Member of the Fabric Advisory Committee of Canterbury Cathedral and is a Trustee of the Association for Art History.