Dr Siobhan Shilton

Research summary

Siobhán Shilton was appointed to the Department in 2005. She specialises in postcolonial and transnational studies, with particular reference to the cultures of France, the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and former ‘Indochina’ (she has also worked on Iranian graphic literature in French). She was recently awarded an AHRC Fellowship for a project exploring postcolonial and transnational theory, history and aesthetics in contemporary photography, video, installation and performance art. A further current area of interest is 'aesthetics of revolution' in the contemporary Arab world. She has two books in press: a monograph entitled Transcultural Encounters: Gender and Genre in Franco-Maghrebi Art ...

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Recent publications

• Shilton, SM 2013, ‘Cubist Counterpoint: Transnational Aesthetics in Video, Sculpture and Installation’. Forum for Modern Language Studies.
• Shilton, S 2013, ‘Transcultural Encounters: Gender and Genre in Franco-Maghrebi Art’. Manchester University Press

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