Susanna Mary Avery-Quash (born 1970) is a British art historian, curator, and author.
[2] She was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where she took a first degree in modern languages, followed by a diploma at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and then returned to Cambridge to graduate Ph.D.[3] Known in her early life as Susanna M. Avery, on her marriage to Ben Quash, also a member of Peterhouse, she added his name to her own.
[1] In 1997, Avery-Quash was appointed as Munby Fellow in Bibliography at the University of Cambridge, then in 2002 became a lecturer in the history of art there.
A focus of her research has been Sir Charles Eastlake, founding director of the National Gallery.
She has published articles on the role of Anglican clergy and of Prince Albert as collectors of early Italian art.