
Dr Janina Sara Maria Ramirez (pronounced [ja'nina]; née Maleczek; born 7 July 1980), sometimes credited as Nina Ramirez, is a British art historian, cultural historian, and TV presenter. She specializes in interpreting symbols and examining works of art within their historical context. Ramirez went to school in Slough, Berkshire. She gained a degree in English literature, specializing in Old and Middle English, from St Anne's College, Oxford, before completing her postgraduate studies at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York. She completed a PhD on the artistic and literary symbolism of birds, which led to a lectureship in York's Art History Department, followed by lecturing posts at the University of Winchester, University of Warwick, and University of Oxford.

Pointless Celebrities
TV • 2011

Illuminations: The Private Lives of Medieval Kings
TV • 2012

Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
MOVIE • 2014

The Genius of Leonardo Da Vinci
MOVIE • 2018

Female Filmmakers Too: BBC Introducing Arts
MOVIE • 2022

Handmade in Bolton
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Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War
TV • 2013

Architects of the Divine: The First Gothic Age
MOVIE • 2014

Britain's Most Fragile Treasure
MOVIE • 2011

Saints and Sinners: Britain's Millennium of Monasteries
TV • 2015

Female Filmmakers: BBC Introducing Arts
MOVIE • 2020

Raiders of the Lost Past with Janina Ramirez
TV • 2020

The Viking Sagas
MOVIE • 2011

England's Reformation: Three Books That Changed a Nation
MOVIE • 2017

Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons
MOVIE • 2010

An Art Lovers' Guide
TV • 2017

Screengrabbed: BBC Introducing Arts
MOVIE • 2019

Women in Film: BBC Introducing Arts
MOVIE • 2021