He is a professor of philosophy and author specialising in the fields of aesthetics, metaphysics, and visual culture.
[1] He subsequently migrated to the University of Leeds where he took a joint honours degree in Philosophy and the History of Art.
[4] He was a graduate student at the University of York and also holds a teaching certificate in Classical Studies.
Works by him on the philosophy of visual art have been translated into Chinese, Korean, German, and Serbian, amongst other languages.
[7] In 2014, Crowther — together with Slovenian artist Mojca Oblak, and assistance from the Ministry of Culture of Slovenia and the Moore Institute in Galway, Ireland — organized an exhibition of Victorian art entitled Awakening Beauty [8] at the National Gallery in Ljubljana, Slovenia.