Griselda Pollock

Griselda Pollock is a feminist art historian and exhibition curator. Now Professor emerita of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, she also created the transdisciplinary Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (2001-) and is a member of in the Centre for Jewish Studies at Leeds. For her dedicated work as a feminist art historian and cultural theorist she was awarded the Holberg Prize in 2020 and CAA Life-time Achievement Award for Writing on Art in 2023. Recent publications include After-Image/After-Affect: Trauma and Aesthetic Transformation (Manchester University Press, 2013), Charlotte Salomon in the Theatre of Memory (Yale University Press, 2018), Mary Cassatt (Thames & Hudson [new edition in colour] 2022), Killing Men & Dying Women: Imagining Difference in 1950s New York Painting (Manchester University Press, 2022) and WOMAN IN ART: Helen Rosenau’s ‘Little Book’ of 1944 (Yale University Press, 2023). Forthcoming is Marilyn Monroe at Work: Agency, Ambition and After-Image ( London: Bloomsbury).