Kirsten Mairead Gill
(she/her)
PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center | WAC Fellow, Medgar Evers College
I am a scholar and theorist of moving image media and a doctoral candidate in the art history department at the Graduate Center, CUNY. My dissertation looks at the various way that moving image media were reimagined in the light of movements for Black freedom from the 1960s-1980s.
Education
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Ph.D. candidate, Art History; Graduate Teaching Fellow
M.Phil., Art History, 2021
Dissertation: Movement Image: Black Freedom in Experimental Film and Video, 1965-85
University of Pennsylvania
M.A. History of Art, 2016
Thesis: Figures of Speech: Silence and Noise in Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s Audio Forensics
Supervisor: Christine Poggi
Bates College
B.A. Studio Art and B.A. French, 2011
Positions
Lecturer, Art History, City College of New York
Writing Across the Curriculum Fellow, English Department, Medgar Evers College
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Adjunct Lecturer, Humanities, New York City College of Technology
Mellon Curatorial Fellow, Dia Art Foundation, non-cuny
