Griselda Pollock

BA Oxford, MA, PhD London

Publications and Papers, Research Profile

Director of CentreCATH at Leeds

Co-Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies

Executive Member of Centre for Jewish Studies

Executive Member of Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies

Griselda Pollock's main research interests are in the issues of gender, race and class in the formations of modernism in late nineteenth century Europe and America;the history of women in the visual arts with a current project focusing on femininity, representation and modernity 1928-1968; the work of Vincent van Gogh; women's cinema 1940-9; the legend of Tarzan: myths of empire, identity and place, contemporary visual arts by women. Major research supervision is offered in cultural studies, art history, film studies and feminist studies in the visual arts. Her new research areas include issues of trauma, history and memory after the Holocaust and Jewish Art and Modernity