Edwards Paul

Edwards Paul is an Associate Professor at Université Paris Cité since 2005, with prior roles including Visiting Professor at UCLA (2016) and CNRS Researcher at the Maison Française, Oxford (2017-2019). His research focuses on Visual Studies, History of Photography, and Comparative Literature (English/French), with a specialization in Alfred Jarry and Punk/Post-Punk cultural movements. He has supervised research on the History of Photography and Alfred Jarry’s period.

Key administrative roles include editorships of L’Étoile-Absinthe (Alfred Jarry Society journal) and L’Ouphopo (Ouvroir de Photographie Potentielle), alongside coordination roles at the Maison Française and LARCA.

His publications span The Photobook World (2023), analyses of colonial narratives in photography (Mémoires du livre, 2024), and studies on Punk subcultures (2019). Current projects include research on children’s photobooks and literary photobooks.

Grant activities and lab affiliations are not explicitly detailed but implied through his editorial and research leadership roles.