Deborah Howard is the Robert Janson-La Palme Visiting Professor for the Fall Semester of 2009-10. Her principal research interests are the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance; and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean.

She graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1968 in Architecture and Fine Arts with First-Class Honours. As a graduate student at the Courtauld Institute of Art, she received her MA with Distinction in 1969 and her PhD in 1973.

She taught at University College London, Yale University (Summer Term Program in London), Edinburgh University and the Courtauld Institute, before returning to Cambridge in 1992. She is now the Professor of Architectural History in the Faculty of Architecture and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. She served as Chair of the Department of History of Art in Cambridge in 2002-6 and 2007-9.

She is Director of the Centre for Acoustic and Musical Experiments in Renaissance Architecture (CAMERA) at the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art, Cambridge University. Her latest book, Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics (with Laura Moretti), will be published by Yale University Press later this year.

PUBLICATIONS

Deborah Howard’s books include Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaiassance Venice (1975, 1987); The Architectural History of Venice (1980, 1987; revised and enlarged edition 2002); Scottish Architecture from the Reformation to the Restoration 1560-1660 (1995); Venice and the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 (2000); Architettura e Musica nella Venezia del Rinascimento (edited with Laura Moretti, 2002). She is the author of numerous articles and book reviews.