Siobhán Shilton

is Professor of French Studies and the Visual Arts in the French Department at the University of Bristol. She has published on art and the “Arab Uprisings,” cultural encounters in photography, video, graffiti, graphic novels, installation and performance art, and twentieth-century literature in French on the themes of travel, immigration and diaspora. Her most recent monograph is Art and the Arab Spring: Aesthetics of Revolution and Resistance in Tunisia and Beyond (The Global Middle East, Cambridge University Press, 2021).