Dr. Julia Kershaw (PhD’24) recently joined the Department of Art at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History. At UTC, Julia will teach survey courses and special topic seminars on Latin American art, contemporary art, and global architecture.
The appointment gives Dr. Kershaw opportunities to incorporate her archival research conducted during a Fulbright Fellowship in Brazil and other scholarly engagements in Argentina, Peru, and Chile in 2023. She looks forward to bringing experiential learning and object-based study to the classroom, incorporating the Hunter Museum of Art’s extensive contemporary art collection and the George and Louise Patten Collection of Pre-Colombian material culture.
Kershaw defended her dissertation “Build Your Own Living Space: Architecture and the Politicized Body in the Work of Lygia Clark” under the direction of Dr. Tenley Bick in the spring of 2024. Her research focuses on Clark’s works that engage architecture and the built environment, such as her paintings of staircases and workshops and architectural maquettes. Read more
