Research Supervisor Connect
Associate Professor Donna West Brett joined Art History after an art museum career. Her areas of research and teaching include the history of photography, modern and contemporary art, cold war visual culture, and curatorial studies. She is author of Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 (Routledge 2016), and co-editor with Natalya Lusty of Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images (Routledge, 2019), which won the Best Anthology Category in the Association of Australian and New Zealand AWAPA (Art Writing and Publishing Awards) 2020.
She is currently working on two book projects; Picturing Privacy: The Surveillance Legacy of East Germany and Accidents, Anarchism, Calamity: Photographing Disaster & Tragedy in Britain 1865–1939. Brett is a recipient of the 2017 Australian Academy of the Humanities, Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award, Research Leader for the Photographic Cultures Research Group, and Editorial Member for the Visual Culture and German Contexts Series, Bloomsbury.
Associate Professor Donna Brett.
Art History and Film Studies, School of Art, Communication and English (SACE)
Research interests
Associate Professor Brett supervises Doctoral, Masters and Honours students in the field of photography and visual culture, modern and contemporary art, and curatorial practice and theory.
1. If you are interested in this research opportunity, you are encouraged to email the academic directly. To find the academic’s email address, follow the link provided to their profile page. Introduce yourself and provide some academic background. You may be asked for an academic transcript. Explain why you are interested in your area of research and, if appropriate, why you are interested in working with the recipient.
2. Write an initial research proposal. (Refer to How to write a research proposal for guidance.) In no more than 2000 words demonstrate how your research experience aligns with the supervisor’s and why you’re interested in this opportunity.
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The opportunity ID for this research opportunity is 3068