Gabriel Koureas is an art historian. He is Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London and Fellow at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He completed his PhD at Birkbeck where he was member of its faculty from 2000 to 2019. His research concentrates on the memory and representation of conflict in relation to gender and sexuality in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He completed two Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research projects: 1. ‘Ottoman Pasts, Present Cities: Cosmopolitanism and Transcultural Memories’ which resulted in a special issue of the Journal of Memory Studies (2019); 2. Terrorist Transgressions: Gendered Representations of the Terrorist’ which resulted in the co-edited volume: S. Malvern and G. Koureas (eds.) Terrorist Transgressions: Gendered Representations of the Terrorist (London: IB Tauris, 2014). His other publications include works on masculinity and the commemoration of the First World War, art and the senses, the visual culture of colonial wars of independence and transcultural memories in the Mediterranean. His most recent publication is the co-edited volume with Evi Tselika and Elena Stylianou Contemporary Art from Cyprus (Bloomsbury, 2021). He also works as independent curator and his most recent exhibitions in Cyprus are Under|Mining (2022) in various locations at the ex-mining village of Kalavasos and Seeing Through Melancholia/Hüzün: Transcultural Melancholias in the East Mediterranean (2023) at the Cyprus Ethnological Museum. He served as member of the steering committee of the Centre for Cultural Memory, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, the Centre for Museum Cultures and Peltz Gallery, School of Arts, Birkbeck. He was born and brought up in Nicosia where he recently relocated from the UK and he is currently completing a monograph on transcultural Mediterranean memories.