Editing Anita Brookner (section)

===Academic===
In 1967, she became the first woman to hold the [[Slade Professor of Fine Art|Slade Professorship]] of Fine Art at [[Cambridge University]].<ref name="NYT20160315"/> She was a visiting lecturer at [[University of Reading|Reading University]] from 1959 to 1964 when she became a lecturer at the [[Courtauld Institute of Art]]. She was promoted to [[Reader (academic rank)|Reader]] at the Courtauld in 1977, where she worked until her retirement in 1988.<ref name="McNayGdn"/> She began her career as a specialist on 18th century French art but later extended her expertise to the romantics.<ref name="McNayGdn"/> She  contributed articles to ''[[ArtReview]]'' in the late 1950s and early 1960s,<ref>"What is Romanticism", ArtReview, 12 September 1959.</ref>

Among her students at the Courtauld was art historian [[Olivier Berggruen]], whose graduate work she advised.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://artforum.com/passages/id=60245 |author=Olivier Berggruen |author-link=Olivier Berggruen |title=Olivier Berggruen on Anita Brookner (1928–2016) - artforum.com / passages |website=Artforum.com |access-date=21 June 2016}}</ref> She was a Fellow of [[King's College London]] and of [[New Hall, Cambridge]] ([[Murray Edwards College, Cambridge|Murray Edwards College]] from 2008).

Photographs taken by Anita Brookner are held in the Conway Library of art and architecture at the Courtauld Institute.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 June 2020 |title=Who made the Conway Library? |url=http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/ |access-date=19 November 2020 |website=Digital Media |archive-date=3 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200703211341/http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>