Art History
Faculty in Art History have a wide range of research interests across different regions and time periods.
[Please check faculty pages for specific areas of focus and potential supervisors: click here for individual faculty bio page]
We have particular strengths in contemporary exhibition histories, experimental new media practices, and transmedial approaches to the study of art histories and visual cultures. Other areas of interest include:
- Art and Architecture in Contemporary Asia
- Art and Technology
- Connective and Comparative Art Histories across the Global South
- Cross-Disciplinary Approaches to Art Historical Research and Pedagogy
- Curatorial Strategies
- Exhibition Histories
- Feminisms
- Gender Theories
- Histories of Collecting
- Inter-Asia Referencing and Decolonisng Art Histories and Canons in Southeast Asia
- Material Cultures in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia
- Modern Art and Architecture
- Performativity and Performative Practices
- Coursework Requirement: 3 Courses or 9 AUS
- Submit a Thesis before graduation.
- Students on scholarship will usually submit their thesis one year before the maximum period of candidature.
MA students are required to take three (3) courses.
- Coursework Requirement: 6 Courses or 18 AUs
- Submit a Thesis before graduation
- Students on scholarship will usually submit their thesis one year before the maximum period of candidature.
PhD students are required to take six (6) courses.
HR7001 Graduate Proseminar in History, Theory, and Criticism of Art (3 AUs)
Designed for graduate students engaged in original research in the field of Art History, this course offers an introduction to historiography, methods, and applied theory commensurate with graduate level research in the history, theory, and criticism of art. It draws upon the disciplinary traditions specific to art history as well as contemporary transdisciplinary approaches also found in visual and cultural studies. This background and perspective on research and writing is valuable in preparation for doctoral level research for students planning a career in academia, as well as those with plans for careers in museums and in the wider public spheres of curatorial practice and critical discourse.
HR7002 Directed Readings in Art History (3 AUs)
HR7003 Advanced Studies in Southeast Asian Art Histories (3 AUs)