Personal profile
Research interests
Siobhán Shilton is Professor of French Studies and the Visual Arts. Her research and teaching interests lie in cultural encounters (particularly in France, the Maghreb and West Africa) in late twentieth- and twenty-first-century photography, video, graffiti, graphic novels, installation, performance art and literature. She has also published on art and the 'Arab Uprisings'. Her most recent book is Art and the Arab Spring: Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2021): https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/art-and-the-arab-spring/24F0168170CE9D16321D90FEFF189CC6#fndtn-information
External positions
Panel Member and Peer Review College Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council
1 Jun 2014 → …
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Research output
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Art and Mediterranean Migration: Images of Women and Aesthetics of the Interface
Shilton, S. M., 2 Feb 2026, (Accepted/In press) In: International Journal of Middle East Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Feminist Transcultural Resistance through Art in the Maghreb and its Diaspora
Shilton, S. M., 2026, The I.B. Tauris Handbook to Gendering the Histories of the Arab World. Elsadda, H. & Shami, S. (eds.). 1 ed. London: I.B. Tauris, p. 328-350 23 p. (The I.B. Tauris Handbooks).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter in a book
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Art and Decolonial Worldviews: Transcultural Resistance in and beyond the Installations of Hassan Hajjaj
Shilton, S. M., 29 May 2024, In: Modern Languages Open. 2024, 1, 20 p., 2.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article (Academic Journal) › peer-review
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Projects
- 2 Finished
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Transcultural Encounters: Postcolonialism in the Visual Arts
Shilton, S. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/02/12 → 1/11/12
Project: Research
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DIASPORIC ENCOUNTERS: JOURNEYS BETWEEN FRANCE AND THE MAGHREB IN CONTEMPORARY ART
Shilton, S. M. (Principal Investigator)
1/04/08 → 1/08/08
Project: Research
Activities
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OWRI Creative Multilingualisms Workshop
Shilton, S. M. (Participant)
19 Sept 2019Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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OWRI Multilingualism International Conference
Shilton, S. M. (Participant)
Jan 2018Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
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Art and the Tunisian Revolution: Aesthetics of Contingency
Shilton, S. M. (Participant)
Dec 2017Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Invited talk