My research is broadly concerned with the culture of everyday life. I am interested in investigating what is extraordinary in ordinary life (for instance habit) and in looking at the ordinariness of what might be thought of as extra-ordinary or exotic or esoteric or elite. My particular interests at the moment congregate around cultural feelings, domestic life and post-war British art (New Brutalism). At the moment I am working on three projects. I am writing a book called 'Cultural Feelings: Mood, Mediation, and Cultural Politics' which is an attempt to investigate feelings and moods (optimism, nostalgia, gloom, melancholy, etc) as they circulate in British culture from the 1950s to now. The second project is a book called 'The Great Indoors: An Intimate History of the British House', which is a non-academic book for the publishers Profile Books. Third is a project that I have been working on for a number of years: an account of 'New Brutalism' in British art in the 1950s.

I am on research leave during the academic year 2012-13.

Highmore, Ben (2013) Memories of catastrophes yet to come: new brutalism and thing-memory. In: Performing memory in art and popular culture. Routledge research in cultural and media studies . Routledge, London, pp. 75-91. ISBN 9780415811408

Highmore, Ben (2013) Migrant cuisine, critical regionalism and gastropoetics. Cultural Studies Review, 19 (1). pp. 99-116. ISSN 1837-8692

Highmore, Ben (2012) Then turn the page: Berger by the Book. Journal of Visual Culture, 11 (2). pp. 124-126. ISSN 1470-4129

Highmore, Ben (2011) 'Image-breaking, God-making': Paolozzi's brutalism. October, 136. pp. 87-104. ISSN 0162-2870

Highmore, Ben (2011) Introduction: 'Out of the strong came forth sweetness' - sugar on the move. New Formations, 74. pp. 5-17. ISSN 0950-2378

Highmore, Ben (2011) Ordinary lives: studies in the everyday. Routledge. ISBN 9780415461863

Highmore, Ben (2011) Out of place: unprofessional painting, Jacques Rancière, and the distribution of the sensible. In: Reading Rancière: aesthetics, politics, philosophy, art. Continuum, London, pp. 95-110. ISBN 9781441137814

Highmore, Ben (2010) Bitter after taste: affect, food and social aesthetics. In: The affect theory reader. Duke University Press, Durham, N.C., pp. 118-137. ISBN 9780822347767

Highmore, Ben (2010) Into the labyrinth: phantasmagoria at Expo 67. In: Expo 67: not just a souvenir. University of Toronto Press, Toronto, pp. 125-142. ISBN 9780802096494

Highmore, Ben (2010) Social aesthetics. In: Handbook of cultural sociology. Routledge, London ; New York, pp. 155-163. ISBN 9780415474450

Highmore, Ben (2010) Streets in the air. In: Neo-avant-garde and postmodern: postwar architecture in Britain and beyond. Studies in British Art, 21 . Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, pp. 79-100. ISBN 9780300166187

Highmore, Ben (2009) The Taj Mahal in the High Street: the Indian restaurant as diasporic popular culture in Britain. Food, Culture and Society, 12 (2). pp. 173-190. ISSN 1552-8014

Highmore, Ben (2009) A passion for cultural studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills. ISBN 9781403997173

Highmore, Ben (2008) Alimentary agents: food, cultural theory and multiculturalism. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 29 (4). pp. 381-398. ISSN 0725-6868

Highmore, Ben (2007) Richard Hamilton at the Ideal Home Exhibition of 1958: gallery for a collector of brutalist and tachiste art. Art History, 30 (5). pp. 712-737. ISSN 0141-6790

Highmore, Ben (2007) Home furnishings: Richard Hamilton, domesticity and the 'post-avant-garde'. In: Neo-avant garde. Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 243-262. ISBN 9789042021259

Highmore, Ben (2007) Michel de Certeau and the possibilities of psychoanalytic cultural studies. In: Culture and the Unconscious. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 88-101. ISBN 9781403986221

Highmore, Ben (2007) An epistemological awakening: Michel de Certeau and the writing of culture. Social Anthropology, 15 (1). pp. 13-26. ISSN 0964-0282

Highmore, Ben (2007) Walls without museums: anonymous history, collective authorship and the document. Visual Culture in Britain, 8 (2). pp. 1-20. ISSN 1471-4787

Highmore, Ben (2006) Michel de Certeau: analysing culture. Continuum, London. ISBN 9780826460738

Highmore, Ben (2006) Rough poetry: 'Patio and Pavilion' revisited. Oxford Art Journal, 29 (2). pp. 269-290. ISSN 0142-6540

Highmore, Ben (2006) Hopscotch modernism: on everyday life and the blurring of art and social science. Modernist Cultures, 2 (1). pp. 70-79. ISSN 2041-1022

Highmore, Ben (2005) Paint it black: Ad Reinhardt's paradoxical avant-gardism. In: Avant-garde/ neo-avant-garde. Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 109-130. ISBN 9789042019256

Highmore, Ben (2005) Cityscapes: cultural readings in the material and symbolic city. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke ; New York. ISBN 9780333929353

Highmore, Ben (2005) Rescuing optimism from oblivion. In: Team 10, 1953-1981: in search of a utopia of the present. NAi Publishers, Rotterdam. ISBN 9789056624712

Highmore, Ben (2004) Homework: routine, social aesthetics and the ambiguity of everyday life. Cultural Studies, 18 (2-3). pp. 306-327. ISSN 0950-2386

Highmore, Ben (2003) Machinic magic: IBM at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. New Formations, 51 (Winter). pp. 128-148. ISSN 0950-2378

Highmore, Ben (2002) Everyday life and cultural theory: an introduction. Routledge, London. ISBN 9780415223027

Highmore, Ben (2002) Street life in London: towards a rhythmanalysis of London in the late nineteenth century. New Formations, 47. pp. 171-193. ISSN 0950-2378

Highmore, Ben, ed. (2001) The everyday life reader. Routledge, London; New York. ISBN 978-0-415-23024-7