Jon Simons is reader and associate head of School for Arts and Communication, Leeds Trinity University. He characterizes most of his twenty-first-century work as ‘Image Studies’, following the publication in 2006 of Images: A Reader (co-edited with Sunil Manghani and Arthur Piper). His current research project is about images of peace in the Israeli peace movement, for which he also writes a blog, Picturing Peace, http://israelipeaceimages.com/. In 2017 he co-edited a volume with John Lucaites, In/visible War: The Culture of War in Twenty-first-Century America (Rutgers University Press), the fruit of a faculty seminar at Indiana University when they were both Remak Scholars. His work in media studies, which focuses on the interfaces between media, politics and aesthetics, has appeared in journals including Media and Communication, the Journal for Cultural Research and the European Journal of Political Theory, as well as edited volumes such as Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics (2011) and Media and the Restyling of Politics (2003). He is also interested in critical political theory, his first book having been Foucault and the Political in 1995. Between 2002 and 2010 he edited three volumes about contemporary critical theorists for Edinburgh University Press.
