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

Supervisors: Siona Wilson (chair); Ruth Wilson Gilmore (second reader)

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