Dr Sean Ketteringham is a researcher and curator based in Leeds. His doctoral research examined the relationship between British imperial decline and English national identity through domestic art, architecture, and literature in the mid-twentieth century. He is currently developing new research into folk art, decolonisation, and anthropological thought in postwar Britain. His research and curatorial interests also include avant-gardes, anarchism, word and image, architectural preservation, heritage, landscape, locality, and land art.
His curatorial work has included projects with the Henry Moore Institute, Flat Time House, the Courtauld Gallery collection of works on paper, and the National Trust. His academic writing has appeared in Modernist Cultures, Sculpture Journal, and Notes and Queries, and his first monograph is currently under review with Oxford University Press. Sean is currently Visiting Fellow at the Centre for British Studies, Humboldt-Univeristät zu Berlin and in 2022 was an AHRC Visiting Scholar at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas.
