Dr Flora Dunster

Biography

Flora Dunster is a Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, and Course Leader of MA Contemporary Photography; Practices and Philosophies.

She completed her Ph.D. in 2019 at the University of Sussex. She also holds an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA in Art History from McGill University.

Her work centres on critical histories and theories of photography. Areas of interest include queer and lesbian photography in the UK during the 1980s and ’90s, as well as queer photography more widely; British ‘photo theory’; photography in and of Wales; utopian/future-oriented theories of photography; and the historicisation of Vancouver School photo conceptualism. Flora's work is interdisciplinary, and pulls from across fields in order to situate images both within the context of their making, and as sites of political potential which work across time.