Timon Screech


Timon Screech is a professor of the history of art at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. He is a specialist in the art and culture of early modern Japan.
In 1985, Screech received a BA in Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. In 1991, he completed his PhD in art history at Harvard University. Since graduating from Harvard, he has been at SOAS; and he has also been visiting professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, and guest researcher at Gakushuin University and Waseda University in Tokyo. His main current research project is related to the early history of the English East India Company in Japan.
In July 2018 Screech was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.
Screech's leisure interests are feliculture, urban gardening in Tokyo and learning Burmese.

SOAS

In SOAS's Department of Art & Archaeology, Screech is a Professor of the history of art. Professor Screech's particular areas of interest are the history of Japanese art; Edo painting; contacts between Japan and Europe in the Edo Period; history of science ; and the theory of art history. He was elected to a Chair in the history of art in 2006. Screech has also served as Head of the Department of the History of Art & Archaeology at SOAS and of the School of Arts.

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