Affiliated Members
Stephen Melville conducts research across Aesthetics, Literature, and Philosophy. He is interested in mobilizing these fields of inquiry in order to explore critically the future of education, the institution of the university, and cultural institutions more generally. Melville is author of Philosophy beside Itself: On Deconstruction and Modernism (University of Minnesota Press, 1986), Seams: Art as a Philosophical Context (Routledge, 1996), As Painting: Division and Displacement (The MIT Press, 2001, with Philip Armstrong and Laura Lisbon), Writing Art History (with Margaret Iversen, forthcoming from University of Chicago Press, 2010), and a monograph on on Hegel's implications for art history, contemporary art, aesthetics, and the institutions of the university (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press). He is also editor of Vision and Textuality (Duke University Press, 1995, with Bill Readings), The Lure of the Object (Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press, 2006), and co-curator of 'As Painting' at the Wexner Centre, Columbus, Ohio. Professor of History of Art at The Ohio State University, Melville has been a Fellow at the Clark Research Institute and at the Humanities Institute at the University of Michigan, as well as Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Essex and Visiting Professor at The Johns Hopkins University.
Nicola Sim
Nicola Sim is Visiting Curator of Education and Public Programmes at the Institute, and Public Events Assistant at Whitechapel Gallery, London.