Centre Staff
Co-Directors:
Professor Dawn Ades, University of Essex
Professor Dawn Ades is Professor of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex (now semi-retired). Her publications include Dada and Surrealism (1974); Photomontage (1976/1986); Salvador Dalí (1982); André Masson (1994); Figures and Likenesses: the Painting of Siron Franco (1996); Marcel Duchamp (1999). She has curated/co-curated and edited/written the catalogue for a number of exhibitions including the groundbreaking Dada and Surrealism Reviewed (1978); Art in Latin America: The Modern Era 1820-1980 (1989); Art and Power: Europe under the Dictators 1930-1945 (1995); Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and Documents (2006) and most recently Close-Up: proximity and defamiliarisation in art, film and photography (2008).
Professor David Lomas, University of Manchester
Professor David Lomas is a Co-Director of the Centre (with Dawn Ades and Jennifer Mundy). He is Principal Investigator on the AHRC-funded surrealism and sexuality project. Among his publications on surrealism are The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity (2000) and, with Jeremy Stubbs, Simulating the Marvellous (forthcoming, 2010). He co-curated the exhibition Subversive Spaces: Surrealism and Contemporary Art, currently touring in the UK.
Dr Jennifer Mundy, Tate
Dr Jennifer Mundy is Head of Collection Research at Tate. She organized the exhibitions Surrealism: Desire Unbound (2001) and Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia (2008) for Tate Modern, and has published on surrealist-related topics. She has been involved with the Centre as Associate Director since its inception.
Surrealism and Sexuality Project Staff:
Research Associate:
Dr Silvia Loreti, University of Manchester
Dr Silvia Loreti is Postdoctoral Research Associate in the School of Arts, Histories and Cultures at the University of Manchester. She completed her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2009. Her doctoral dissertation, "Avant-Garde Classicism, ca. 1907-1924", considered the role of classicism in modern art as an integral part of avant-garde culture. Her research interests focus on the relationship between notions of tradition (Western and non-Western) and modernity, and between "normative" and "subversive" trends within the historiography of modernism. She has published articles on Picasso and de Chirico and contributes exhibition reviews to The Burlington Magazine.
Teaching Fellow:
Dr Joanna Pawlik, University of Manchester
Dr Joanna Pawlik is a Teaching Fellow in Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. Her research interests include the interaction between American and European avant-gardes (literary, theatrical and visual), with a particular emphasis on Bretonian Surrealism and the dissident Surrealism of Artaud.
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow:
Dr Charles F.B. Miller, University of Manchester
Dr Charlie F.B. Miller is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Manchester. He is writing a monograph about Picasso and surrealism. His current research focuses on the relation between surrealism and autobiography, and the role of myth in the construction of artistic and political identities. He is also co-curating an exhibition, provisionally entitled Picasso/Dalí: Dalí/Picasso.
Co-Investigators:
Dr Jonathan D Katz, State University New York, Buffalo
Dr Jonathan D. Katz, Director of the Visual Studies Doctoral Program and Associate Professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, is a main collaborator on the surrealism and sexuality project. Katz has been a pioneer of gay and lesbian studies in art history in the United States. He is guest curator of a groundbreaking exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery entitled Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture (Oct. 2010) - the first queer exhibition at a national museum in US history. A major new essay on Agnes Martin entitled “The Sexuality of Abstraction” is to be published by DIA/Yale in their forthcoming book, Agnes Martin.
Professor Bradley S Epps, Harvard University
Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality; Chair of Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University. His research interests include 19th- and 20th-Century Spanish and Latin American Literature; Catalan Language and Literature; French and Anglo-American Literature; Critical Theory; Gender Studies; Modernism and Post-modernism; Gay, Lesbian, and Queer Studies; Immigration; and Urban Studies.
Dr James Boaden, University of York
James Boaden’s research focuses on American art from the mid-twentieth century, and looks in particular at the crossover between experimental film culture and the art world during that period. James organized the film screening ‘Scratching the Surface’ to accompany the exhibition Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons for Tate Modern in 2008 and ‘Lights-Up: American Structural Film’ at BFI Bankside in 2006.