Ben Spatz
Roles:
Author, Copyeditor, Editor, Proofreader, Reviewer
Affiliation:
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- Assistant Professor in Creative Practice
- College of Arts and Law
- University of Birmingham View ROR record for University of Birmingham. (opens in new tab)
- Sep 2025–
Biography
Ben Spatz (they/he) is a nonbinary scholar-practitioner working at the intersections of artistic research and critical theories of embodiment and identity. They are the author of several books, including Race and the Forms of Knowledge (2024) and What a Body Can Do (2015), as well as founding editor of Journal of Embodied Research. Ben has been a Reader in Media and Performance at University of Huddersfield, Research Fellow at University of Leeds, and Visiting Scholar at University of Oxford.
Email: b.spatz@bham.ac.uk
Publications
He Almost Forgets That There is a Maker of the World
Ben Spatz, N. Eda Erçin, Caroline Gatt and Agnieszka Mendel
Volume 4 • Issue 2 • 2021 • Special Issue of Illuminated Videos
Embodiment and Social Distancing: Editorial
Elizabeth de Roza, Nathalie S. Fari, Cara Hagan and Ben Spatz
Volume 3 • Issue 2 • 2020 • Embodiment and Social Distancing