Prof Ben Highmore
| Post: | Emeritus Professor (Media and Film) |
| Location: | ARTS B B261 |
| Email: | B.Highmore@sussex.ac.uk |
Telephone numbers | |
| Internal: | 3339 |
| UK: | 01273 873339 |
| International: | +44 1273 873339 |
Biography
BA (Sheffield Hallam), MA (Leeds), PhD (London)
I studied fine art in the mid-1980s before going on to complete an MA in the Social History of Art at the University of Leeds in 1990. I started teaching cultural studies in various universities from 1991. I completed my doctoral studies at Birkbeck College, University of London in 2000. My thesis was titled ‘Everyday Life and Cultural Theory’ and became my first book. Between 1993 and 2006 I taught cultural studies in Bristol at the University of the West of England. In 2007 I joined the ºìÐÓÊÓƵ.
Recent Books:
The Art of Brutalism: Rescuing Hope from Catastrophe in 1950s Britain, New Haven and London: Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2017.
Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation, and Cultural Politics, London and New York: Routledge, 2017.
Culture (Key Ideas in Media and Cultural Studies), London and New York: Routledge, 2016.
The Great Indoors: At ºìÐÓÊÓƵ in the Modern British House, London: Profile Books, 2015.
I supervise doctoral research (PhDs) in a range of fields: cultural history and media studies; art history; photography history; urban culture; everyday life studies; theoretical work. I am keen to support experimental doctoral research (in methods and in presentation).
Role
I am a professor of cultural studies