Professor Deborah Cherry
Research Professor in the History of Art
Research Interests
Contemporary art, post-colonial studies, transnational art.
Current Research
I am Associate Director of TrAIN, the research centre for the practice and study of transnational art, identity and nation. I am also a co-director of Critical Curating, a research network and project established between Central Saint Martins, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of Sussex which is investigating the nature of curating both contemporary art and historical art and design, and the place of curating in research.
My research interests are at present focused on a study of contemporary art and the senses, relations between the senses, the prominence given to and turns away from the visual, and the implications of post-colonial, transnational and diaspora studies.
I am the editor of Art History, the Journal of the Association of Art Historians, a Membre Titulaire of the Comité International d'Histoire de l'Art, and a panel member of panel 2 of the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
Recent Research
Books
2006 About Stephen Bann, editor, book, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford & Boston
2005 About Stephen Bann, editor, Art History, 28:5.
2005 Between Luxury and the Everyday: French Decorative Arts in the Eighteenth Century, co-editor, book, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford and Boston
2005 Between Luxury and the Everyday: French Decorative Arts in the Eighteenth Century, co-editor, special issue Art History, 28:2.
2005 Local/Global: Women's Art in the Nineteenth Century, co-editor, book co-edited with Janice Helland, Ashgate London
2005 Art: History: Visual: Culture, editor, book, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford and Boston.
2004 Art: History: Visual: Culture, editor, special issue Art History, 27:4.
2002 Speak English, exhibition catalogue, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Essays and Articles
2006 'About Stephen Bann,' essay in About Stephen Bann, book, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford and London.
2005 'Local/Global: new narratives of women's art', essay in book co-edited with Janice Helland, Local/Global: Women's Art in the Nineteenth Century, Ashgate, London.
2005 'About Stephen Bann,' essay in About Stephen Bann, special issue Art History, 28:5.
2005 'Art. History.Visual.Culture', essay in Art: History: Visual: Culture, book, Blackwell Publishing, Oxford and London.
2005 'Art. History.Visual.Culture', in Art: History: Visual: Culture, editor, special issue Art History, 27:4.
2005 'Images of Women in Pre-Raphaelite Art' and numerous catalogue entries in Waking Dreams: The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites from the Delaware Art Museum, book ed. S. Wilding, Art Services International, USA.
2005 'In a word', essay in T. Barringer and M. Giebelhausen, eds, Writing the Pre-Raphaelites, University of Virginia Press (in press).
2004 'Going Places: Women Artists in Central London in the 1850s and 1860s', essay in London Journal. 28:1, 73-96
2003 'The Art of the Senses and the Making of a Diasporan Aesthetic: Zarina Bhimji's She Loved to Breathe Pure Silence.' Essay in Tessera, 32.
2002 'Elizabeth Garrett Anderson : Image, Identity and Space in the Making of Modern Medicine', essay co-written with Lynne Walker in Journal of Visual Culture.
2002 'The Worlding of Algeria', essay in M. Roberts and J. Beaulieu, eds, Orientalism's Interlocutors, Duke University Press, Durham
2002 'Algeria inside and outside the frame', essay in D. Crouch and N. Lübbren, eds, Tourism and Visual Culture, Oxford: Berg
2002 'On the move: Tracey Emin's My Bed,' essay in M. Merck and C. Townsend, eds. The Art of Tracey Emin, Thames and Hudson, London.
2001 'Troubling Presence: body, sound and space in installation art of the mid 1990s, essay in Revue d'Art Canadienne (Canadian Art Journal, published in English and French), 25: 1-2, 1998 [2001].
Supervision Expertise
Contemporary art, nineteenth-century art, critical theory, feminist and post-colonial studies.
Postgraduate dissertations successfully supervised to award include Dr Meaghan Clarke, University of Sussex; Prof Kristina Huneault, Concordia University; Dr Alexandra Kokoli, University of Sussex; Dr Alicia Foster, Kent Institute; Dr Marianne May; Moo-yang Sung, Seoul.
Current Research Students
Erika Tan, Circumventing Closure: Transnational Manoeuvre(ing)s, Camberwell College. UAL bursary
Tracy Anderson, on Britain and India, 1840-1890, University of Sussex, AHRC funded
Alice Correia, on identity, place and contemporary art, University of Sussex, AHRC funded
Carolyn Dixon, on Laura Alma-Tadema, University of Sussex
Leila McKellar, on Helen Chadwick, University of Sussex, AHRC funded
Prasannajit de Silva, on Britain and India, 1780-1840, University of Sussex, Green Foundation funded.
Chloe Johnson, on images of Pre-Raphaelites in the media, 1930-1997, University of Sussex