Brad Evans

Brad Evans is a Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath. He is the author of twenty books and edited volumes, along with over a hundred and fifty academic and international media articles. Brad has written extensively on the state of international affairs, while having made a number of telling theoretical contributions to the understanding of violence. For the past decade he has largely been working on the violence of disappearance and the importance of trans-disciplinary responses. He previously held academic positions at the Universities of Bristol and Leeds, while also teaching at Columbia University, New York.

Brad regularly makes television appearances to global broadcast audiences including televised interviews on the BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera, and TRT World. Throughout 2015-17, Brad led a dedicated series of conversations on violence with leading critical thinkers for The New York Times opinion section (The Stone). He later continued the conversation as lead editor in a column dealing with violence and the arts/critical theory with the Los Angeles Review of Books, which ran from 2017-2022. He is now Assistant editor with American Book Review, leading a dedicated section called “Violent Times”.