Prof Stephen Bann, CBE, FBA

Career: University of Kent at Canterbury (now Univ of Kent): lectr in history 1967-75, sr lectr 1975-80, reader in modern cultural studies 1980-88, chair Bd of Studies in history and theory of art 1983-95, prof of modern cultural studies 1988-2000, dir Centre for Modern Cultural Studies 1990-2000, dir of grad studies Faculty of Humanities 1993-95, hon prof 2011-; prof of history of art Univ of Bristol 2000-08 (emeritus prof and sr research fell 2008-); Mellon sr fell Canadian Centre for Architecture Montreal 2003, Edmond J Safra visiting prof Nat Gall of Art Washington DC 2005, Beatrix Farrand distinguished fell Dumbarton Oaks Research Library Washington DC 2009 (sr fell 2002-08), sr visiting fell Yale Center for Br Art 2011-; chm Research Ctee Arts and Humanities Research Bd 1998-2000; pres Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art (CIHA) 2000-04; memb: Art Panel Arts Cncl of GB 1975-78, Art Panel South-East Arts 1976-79 and 1982-88, Int Assoc of Art Critics (AICA) 1984-, Cncl Friends of Canterbury Cathedral 1990-2000, Humanities Research Bd 1997-98, Leverhulme Research Awards Advsy Ctee 1998-2005, Museums and Galleries Ctee AHRC 2004-08, Mgmnt Bd Inst for Garden and Landscape History 2006-08; Leverhulme Emeritus Fellowship 2009; FBA 1998, FSA 2009

Books and Publications: Experimental Painting (1970), The Tradition of Constructivism (ed, 1974), The Clothing of Clio (1984), The True Vine (1989), The Inventions of History (1990), Under the Sign: John Bargrave as Collector, Traveller and Witness (1994), Romanticism and the Rise of History (1995), Paul Delaroche: History Painted (1997), Parallel Lines: Printmakers, Painters and Photographers in 19th Century France (2001, R H Gapper Prize for French Studies 2002), Jannis Kounellis (2003), The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe (ed, 2004), Ways around Modernism (2007), The Coral Mind: Adrian Stokes' Engagement with Architecture, Art History, Criticism and Psychoanalysis (ed, 2007), Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey (with Linda Whiteley, 2010), Art and the Early Photographic Album (ed, 2011), Interlacing Words and Things: Bridging the Nature-Culture Opposition in Gardens and Landscape (2012)