Dr Keren Hammerschlag

Senior Lecturer
Centre for Art History & Art Theory
Convenor of Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship (Honours)
School of Art & Design
Qualification:
BArtTH Hons. (UNSW), MA, PhD (Courtauld)
Senior Lecturer
Centre for Art History & Art Theory
Convenor of Bachelor of Art History and Curatorship (Honours)
School of Art & Design
Qualification:
BArtTH Hons. (UNSW), MA, PhD (Courtauld)Keren received her PhD in Art History from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, before undertaking a three-year Wellcome Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Centre for Humanities and Health at King's College London.
From 2013-2018 she taught in Art History and Women's and Gender Studies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Her research sits at the intersection of the history of art and the history of science and medicine during the nineteenth century. She is the author of Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection (Ashgate / Routledge; 2015) and numerous articles on Victorian art and visual culture.
From 2019-2011 she will be President of the Historians of British Art (CAA affiliated association). She is the recipient of an ANU Futures Scheme Grant to support her work in the Visual Medical Humanities.
Keren is President of the Historians of British Art, Affiliate of the College Art Association.
Keren's research focuses on representations of gender and race in Victorian art and visual culture, as well as the intersections between art history and medical history during the nineteenth and early twentieth century in Britain.
Projects and Grants: 'The Colour of Empire: Representing Race in Victorian Painting' (book)
'The Modern Jewess: Image and Text' (journal special issue)
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