David Scott holds a personal chair in French (Textual and Visual Studies) at Trinity College Dublin. His books include Pictorialist Poetics (Cambridge UP 1988), Paul Delvaux (Reaktion Books 1992), European Stamp Design: a semiotic approach (Academy Editions 1995), and Semiologies of Travel (Cambridge UP, 2004). He is currently writing books entitled Figures de l'affiche / Poetics of the Poster and Boxing: Art and Aesthetics.