Dr Marquard Smith (Director)
Dr David Cunningham (Deputy Director)
Alison Craighead
Dr Mark Clapson
Professor Harriet Evans
Dr Monica Germana
Jon Goodbun
Dr Katie Hill
Professor Debra Kelly
Dr Sas Mays
Peter Ride
Dr Stefan Szczelkun
Dr Alexandra Warwick
Dr Leigh Wilson
Dr Anne Witchard
Alexa Wright

Visiting Professors and Research Fellows

Lennard J Davis is Professor in the Department of English, Department of Disability and Human Development, and Department of Medical Education at University of Illinois at Chicago. He writes prolifically, lectures internationally, and broadcasts on literature, disability, the medical humanities, and science within the context of the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Professor Davis’s books include Factual Fictions (1983), Resisting Novels (1987), Enforcing Normalcy (1995), The Disability Studies Reader (1997), My Sense of Silence (2000), Bending over Backwards (2002), and Obsession (2008).

Ferran Barenblit is Director of Spain’s recently opened art centre Centro Dos de Mayo, Móstoles in Madrid, and has introduced innovative curatorial, educational, and publishing initiatives in Europe and the USA. Before arriving in Madrid, he was Director of the Centre d’Art Santa Mònica (CASM) in Barcelona, and, before that, a free-lance curator (1996-2002) and Assistant Curator, The New Museum, New York (1994-1996).

Rachel Lichtenstein is author of Rodinsky’s Room (With Iain Sinclair), Rodinsky’s Whitechapel, On Brick Lane, has books forthcoming on Hatton Garden and Portobello Road, and is intrigued by how as writers we mobilize our research practices to animate archives.

Sina Najafi is a Founder and the editor-in-chief of the New York-based Cabinet Magazine, and Director of the New York-based nonprofit arts organization Immaterial Incorporated. He has taught at Rhode Island School of Design, NYU, Princeton University, Columbia University, Cooper Union, and Stockholm University, and is formerly co-editor-in-chief of Merge magazine, published in Stockholm and New York, and Index magazine, published in Stockholm.

Dominic Willsdon is the Leanne and George Roberts Curator of Education and Public Programs at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art where he works, as he did in his previous job as Curator of Public Events at Tate Modern, on curatorial, educational, and programming collaborations between artists, museum staff, academics, and various publics. Dominic writes on contemporary art, aesthetics, and education, and is co-editor of The Life and Death of Images: Ethics and Aesthetics: Exchanges on Art and Culture (Tate, 2008)