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Stephen Barber is a research professor in art and film history in the School of Art faculty and is the director of the Visual Cultures Research Centre at Kingston University, London. He has also held research posts at the California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles; at Keio University, Tokyo; at the Free University Berlin; and at other art schools and universities. His research has been funded by a wide range of international foundations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the DAAD, and the British Academy. He is a novelist and the author of numerous research monographs that have been translated into many languages.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
- Barber, Stephen. Into the Wastelands. Diaphanes, 2025.
- Barber, Stephen, ed., trans., and introd. Antonin Artaud. A Sinister Assassin: Last Writings, Ivry-sur-Seine, September 1947–March 1948. Diaphanes, 2023.
- Barber, Stephen. The Projectionists: Eadweard Muybridge and the Future Projections of the Moving Image. Diaphanes, 2021.
- Barber, Stephen. Film’s Ghosts: Tatsumi Hijikata’s Butoh and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan. Diaphanes, 2020.
- Barber, Stephen. Berlin Bodies: Anatomizing the Streets of the City. Reaktion Books, 2018.
- Barber, Stephen. White Noise Ballrooms. Diaphanes, 2018.
CURE RESEARCH PROJECT