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Departmental homepageProfessor Howard studied at the University of Cambridge and at the Courtauld Institute (London University). She held teaching positions at UCL, the University of Edinburgh and the Courtauld Institute before returning to Cambridge in 1992. She was Head of the Department of History of Art from 2002 to 2009 (with a sabbatical break). She is an international member of the American Philosophical Society and a Foreign Fellow of the Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Before retiring in 2013, she taught architectural history and Italian Renaissance and Baroque art in the Departments of both Architecture and History of Art. She was the Director of Studies in Architecture in St John's for over 20 years, and intermittently directed studies in History of Art.
Professor Howard specialises in the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto. Her research interests include Italian Renaissance architecture, cultural exchange between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean and the relationship between architecture, music and acoustics.
Howard, Deborah. The Architectural History of Venice, revised ed., Yale University Press, 2002
Howard, Deborah, Venice & the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture. Yale University Press, 2000
Howard, Deborah. Sound & Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics, Yale University Press, 2009
Howard, Deborah, Venice Disputed: Marc'Antonio Barbaro and Venetian Architecture 1550-1600, Yale University Press, 2011
