Richard Woodfield is Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Art Theory at Nottingham Trent University, UK. Prior to retirement he was School Research Professor for the Nottingham Trent School of Art and Design. He had previously led the School's programme of cultural studies. In December 2007 he was appointed Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Art History at the University of Glasgow.

His special research interests are in art historiography and art theory, particularly in the theory of the image. He is currently working on the Vienna School of Art History in the context of its contemporary philosophy and psychology. Having completed books on Riegl and Warburg he is now engaged in a book on German philosophy and art historiography. 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, which linked to this website.

He is also interested in the history of art theory and the emergence of aesthetics in 18th century Britain. His current interest in this area is the English reception of Leonardo’s Trattato della Pittura.

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

Mail: Professor Richard Woodfield, The School of Art & Design, The Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham NG1 4BU. Telephone: 44 (0)115 9523320 (+voicemail). Email: richard.woodfield@ntu.ac.uk