Timon Screech FBA (born 28 September 1961 in Birmingham) was professor of the history of art at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London from 1991 - 2021, when he left the UK in protest over Brexit.
In 1985, Screech received a BA in Oriental Studies (Japanese) at the University of Oxford.
His main current research project is related to the deification of the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu, in 1616-17, and his cult as the Great Avatar.
[1] Screech’s work had been translated into Chinese (Taiwan and PRC), French, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish and Romanian.
His leisure interests are ailurophilia, learning Burmese, and cultivating plants in the former Kingdom of the Ryukyus.