Edwin Coomasaru is a PhD candidate at The Courtauld Institute of Art, co-founder of the CHASE Gender, Sexuality & Violence Research Network, and director of the International New Media Gallery. His research, funded by the AHRC, explores Northern Irish masculinities and the legacy of the ‘Troubles’ in contemporary art and visual culture between 2005–2015.

Edwin read English Literature and Art History at Sussex University, followed by an MA in History of Art at University College London. He has contributed to The Irish Times, Irish Studies Review, The Irish Review and Photoworks. In 2016 he was co-editor-in-chief of immediations, The Courtauld's peer-review art history journal.

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