Under the Skin
Feminist Art and Art Histories from the Middle East and North Africa Today
Edited by Ceren Özpinar and Mary Kelly
Author Information
Ceren Özpinar is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton, History of Art and Design Programme. She was previously a British Academy Newton International Fellow at the University of Sussex (2015-17). Dr Özpinar's research focuses on contemporary art, art historiography, and feminist art and art histories since 1960 with a special interest in Turkey and the Middle East. Her first monograph, The Art Historiography in Turkey (1970-2010) was published in 2016, and the next, entitled Politics of Writing Art Histories: Narratives of Contemporary Art, Feminism and Women Artists from Turkey, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press in 2021.
Mary Kelly (née Healy) is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art History, Theory and Gallery Studies & Director of the MA in Global Gallery Studies at University College Cork, Ireland. She is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She is an Irish Research Council Awardee and a Fulbright Scholar. Dr Kelly's research and teaching employ a comparative discourse analysis which bridges European Orientalism and postcolonial theories; women's art and feminisms; contemporary art from the Middle East and North Africa, and the role of fine art galleries in societies. Her publications include invited chapters with the British Museum (2019); journal articles published in Cultural & Social History (2018) and Women Studies (2015); and her forthcoming monograph is entitled French Women Orientalist Artists, 1861-1956: Cross-cultural Contacts and Depictions of Difference (Ashgate, Taylor & Francis).
Contributors:
Nadine Atallah, Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
Charlotte Bank, independent art historian and curator
Tal Dekel, Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv, and Tel Aviv University
Isabelle de le Court, independent scholar and art advisor
Jessica Gerschultz, University of Kansas
Lina M Kattan, King Abdul-Aziz University
Mary Kelly, University College Cork
Akila Kizzi, Paris 8 University
Rachel Nelson, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ceren Özpınar, University of Brighton
Holiday Powers, VCUarts Qatar
Somayeh Noori Shirazi, University of Alberta