Silvano Levy

Silvano LevySilvano Levy is a British academic and author specialising in the surrealist movement, with extensive research on Conroy Maddox, René Magritte, and a comprehensive, multi-volume catalogue raisonné on Desmond Morris. Levy's focus on neglected women artists produced the first scholarly publications on Emmy Bridgwater, Dalla Husband, Sheila Legge and Mary Wykeham.

Dr Levy is editor of Surrealist Bulletin and has held academic posts at the University of Liverpool, Newcastle Polytechnic, the University of Bath, the University of Hull and Keele University, where he was promoted to Senior Lecturer in French in 1998 and then to Reader in 2005. Silvano Levy attended Tollington Grammar School in Muswell Hill, London and graduated from The University of Reading and The University of Kent at Canterbury.