Steve Edwards is Professor of History & Theory of Photography at Birkbeck, University of London. His publications have been translated into twelve languages and include:
The Making of English Photography, Allegories;
Photography: A Very Short Introduction; and
Martha Rosler the Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems. He is an editorial member of
Oxford Art Journal and the
Historical Materialism Book Series, as well as a convenor for the research seminar Marxism in Culture.
Gail Day's
Dialectical Passions: Negation and Postwar Art Theory was shortlisted for the Isaac & Tamara Deutscher Prize. She is Professor of Art History and Critical Theory at the University of Leeds. She co-convenes the Marxism in Culture research seminar. She collaborated on the research programme
Aesthetic Form & Uneven Modernity with Centro de Estudos Desmanche e Formação de Sistemas Simbólicos at Universidade de São Paulo. Meeting Steve years later, she belonged to a rival faction at the same Black Country discos.