[1] In 1992, she moved to the University of Manchester to take the Pilkington Professorship in the History of Art, a position she held until 2002.
[4] Pointon is a prolific author, widely recognised as one of the leading scholars of British art.
[5] Her innovative approach to the subject emerged with her book Naked Authority: The Body in Western Painting[6] and developed further with Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social Formation in Eighteenth-Century England.
Her most recent book is Portrayal and the Search for Identity, Reaktion Books 2013, ISBN 9781780230412, reviewed in Apollo Magazine July/August 2013, p. 97' Pointon has led the field in applying theoretical discourse to the business of thinking about art, notably in the context of long eighteenth-century British culture.'
Since 2009 Pointon has researched and published on the relationships between materials and meanings as for example in her essay Enduring Characteristics and Unstable Hues: Men in Black in French Painting in the 1860s and 1870s in Art History September 2017 [1] and her chapter The Importance of Gems in the work of Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640 in Ben van den Bercken and Vivian Baan, eds., Engraved Gems.