Lynda Nead is Pevsner Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck, University of London. She has published widely on the history of British art and culture, including studies of Victorian art and the city and, more recently, on the visual culture of post-war Britain.

She is a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Historical Society, a Member of the Academia Europaea and sits on the academic advisory boards of a number of museums and galleries, including the Museum of London and the National Gallery, London. She has also been a member of the Leverhulme Trust Research Awards Advisory Council.