Professor Gavin Parkinson completed his MA at The Courtauld in 1997, followed by a PhD in 2000. After lecturing at Birkbeck College and the University of Oxford he joined The Courtauld teaching staff as a Lecturer in 2008 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2014 then Professor in 2019. Gavin lectures and writes on European and American art, culture and criticism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has written many books, including Enchanted Ground: Andre Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin-de-Siecle Painting (Bloomsbury 2018); Futures of Surrealism: Myth, Science Fiction and Fantastic Art in France 1936-1969 (Yale University Press 2015); Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology (Yale University Press 2008); and The Duchamp Book (Tate Publishing 2008) His book Robert Rauschenberg and Surrealism: Art History, 'Sensibility' and War in the 1960s (Bloomsbury 2021)
