Samuel Shaw is Lecturer in History of Art at the Open University. He has taught at several universities, including Leicester, Birmingham, and Sussex. Between 2013-16 he was a post-doctoral research associate at the Yale Center for British Art. He has co-curated exhibitions at Bradford’s Cartwright Hall (Bradford to Benares: The Art of William Rothenstein), and Wolverhampton Art Gallery (Reframing the Wild), and is currently working on several exhibition projects with Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. Publications include Zebra (2018), Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party (co-edited, 2017) and William Rothenstein and the Cosmopolitanism of the British Art World (forthcoming).
Research has tended to focus on art and Britain in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, with a particular interest in transnationalism, empire, and the art market. In recent years, however, his work has been increasingly informed by ecocriticism, and the relationship between art, visual culture, and the global climate crisis.
