Contributor

Dr. Christine Conley is an art historian and independent curator with a long-standing interest in issues of gender, difference and trauma. Recent publications include "True Patriot Love: Joyce Wieland's Canada." in Art, Nation and Gender: Ethnic Landscapes, Myths and Motherfigures (Ashgate, 2003); "The Gendering of Allegory: Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document and Benjamin's Melancholy Dialectics" in Differential Aesthetics: Art Practices, Philosophy and Feminist Understandings (Ashgate, 2000); "Memory and Trauerspiel: Charlotte Salomon's Life or Theatre? and Walter Benjamin's Angel of History" in Reading Charlotte Salomon (Cornell University Press, 2006); and "Daughter in Exile: The Painting Space of Christiane Pflug" in RACAR, XXV, 1.2 (1998). She curated the travelling exhibition of Canadian photo-artist Theodore Wan for the Dalhousie University Art Gallery. She has taught at the University of Ottawa, Carleton University, and York University where she is an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies.