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Professor Steve John Edwards FBA

History of photography; nineteenth and twentieth century British art and visual culture; theories of art and society; socialist thought and the radical imagination
Headshot of Professor Steve John Edwards FBA
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2025
Sections
History of Art and Music
Website
https://courtauld.ac.uk/people/steve-edwards/

Summary

Steve Edwards is Manton Professor of British Art and Director of the Manton Centre for British Art at The Courtauld Institute of Art. His research focuses on history of photography, industrial visual culture, and critical theory, with a particular interest in historical materialism.

His first academic post was at The University of Derby, and he has previously held professorships at The Open University and Birkbeck. Having attended a state school and spent a short period as an apprentice in heavy industry, he took a BA Fine Art degree in Cardiff, before switching to MA Social History of Art, completing his PhD at the University of Leeds. With a strong commitment to facilitating research, he plays an active role as an editor and organiser of intellectual networks.

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The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London Manton Professor of British Art and Director of the Manton Centre for British Art

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