Charlotte Ashby is a Lecturer in Art and Design History at Birkbeck, University of London and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was Postdoctoral Research Fellow on the Viennese CafA(c) Project at the Royal College of Art. In 2008 she curated the exhibition Vienna CafA(c) 1900 at the Royal College of Art and co-convened the conference The Viennese CafA(c) as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange.