Doctor Alessandra Lopez y Royo
Nationality: United Kingdom
Year: 1998
Subject Area: Arts and Humanities
Website: Visit (opens in a new window)Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo (Iyer) received a Wingate Scholarship in 1998 for her postdoctoral research at Wolfson College, University of Oxford, working on images of the god Siva in ancient Java. She subsequently received a fellowship at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, in 2000, to work on further aspects of this project. The outcome of the research was a paper entitled "Siwa in Java: the majestic Great God and the Teacher", selected for publication in 2003 in Ars Orientalis, vol 33, published by the Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC. Alessandra became a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford, in 2000, having received a substantial grant from the Getty Research Program for an international collaborative project with the National University of Singapore, working on the dance images of the Prambanan complex in Central Java. She joined Roehampton University at the end of 2001 as Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, teaching on both the Dance Studies and the Art History programmes, thus drawing on her unique research profile and expertise in dance and art. Author of numerous publications, she has published an online book with Stanford University and has become involved in film making, directing two films on DVD, produced by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) Research Centre for Cross-cultural Music and Dance Performance, SOAS, University of London. She has also been Research Associate of the Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS since 2005.