Dr Dave Reason
Master of Keynes College, University of Kent. Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies in the History & Philosophy of Art
 
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Dave Reason graduated from the University of Essex with a degree in Sociology (he had intended to specialise in Theoretical Physics), and moved to the University of Kent in the early 1970s to help found the university’s programme in Interdisciplinary Studies. His interests in the Arts lead him eventually to History & Theory of Art, where his teaching and research interests coagulate around psychoanalytic approaches to understanding art, ‘representations of nature’ (landscape, land art, the body and sexuality) and photography. He is currently involved in projects relating to indigenous photography in Africa. His thinking is inflected by long-standing interests in Psychoanalytic Studies and the work of the ‘Frankfurt School’ of social theory, and by a concern with all forms of creativity outside the academic and the commercial ‘mainstream’. His publications include The Unpainted Landscape (1987), a co-edited book Teaching Transference (1996), contributions to Masks (1996) and Personal, Societal and Ecological Values of Wilderness (1998). Dave has also been instrumental in establishing Science Fiction Studies at Kent, and is currently researching a book on ‘Mars’. He has acted as External Examiner for both taught and research degrees in art. He is currently Master of Keynes College and Senior Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Studies (in History & Philosophy of Art) at the University of Kent.