Edward WelchProfessor Edward Welch is the Carnegie Chair of French at the University of Aberdeen, and Director of the George Washington Wilson Centre for Visual Cultures. His current research focuses on French literary and visual culture of the post-war priod, and its responses to processes of modernisation, decolonisation and urban change. His books include contesting views: The Visual Economy of France and Algeria (Liverpool University Press, 2013) co-authored with Joseph McGonagle, Francois Mauriac: The Making of an Intellectual (Rodopi, 2006) and Photography: Theoretical Snapshots (Routledge, 2009) co-edited with Jonathan Long and Andrea Noble. Read More Read Less