Griselda Pollock
ARCHIVE
ARCHIVE
What is a personal archive or the archive of a working life? After Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida’s theorization of the archive, no writer can contemplate an archive as a simple collection of materials from the past: personal, academic, professional. ​​
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Archives are pre-structured by, and in turn pre-structure, systems of knowledge and value that we know are selective or exclusionary.
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So, what is an archive of a feminist scholar working in Art History, Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory and Cultural Analysis? That is what I am currently working out.
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​This archive is a work in progress. It marks a process of retrospect that involves creating categories for what has been an interwoven of textured life of work and thought, teaching and research, creating programmes, founding of centres, and writing. ​​
PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs trace a career across at least 40 years in academic life. I have no photos of my graduation for BA (1970) or MA (1972) or PhD (1981). I do not think we were into ceremonies in my day. But one photo (see photo carousel below) in doctoral robes for the University of London stands in for the missing documentation.
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AWARDS & HONOURS
Later on, I received awards including Honorary doctorates and most significantly the Holberg Prize in 2020 for my work as a feminist art historian and cultural theorist. The pandemic made it impossible to receive the Prize in person. My daughter and I were hosted at the Norwegian Embassy in 2021 and events were on lines were the conversation and the seminar.
2019 ‘Why are we still “Loving Vincent”. See here.
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2019 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Institute of Art and Art History in Tallinn, Estonia and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, England.
Lecture: ‘Why are we still “Loving Vincent”. See here.
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2019 Awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Courtauld Institute of Art University of London 2019
2020 The Holberg Conversation 2020. See here.
2020 The Holberg Lecture Art, Thought and Difficulty.​ See here.
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2021 The Holberg Symposium ‘Is feminism a bad memory?' See here.
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CENTRE CATH
My archive includes materials relating to Centre CATH - Centre for Cultural Analysis Theory and History - founded in 2001 with a five-year grant from the then AHRB/C and there are links to its five years of activity CongressCATH and the seminars and publications.
MA PROGRAMMES
I document the MA programmes I co-developed or personally developed:
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MA Social History of Art ( 1978)
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MA Cultural Studies (1988)
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MA Feminism and the Visual Arts (1992)
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MA in Jewish Cultures in Modernity Studies (2001)
TEACHING
I also record the modules/courses/seminars I developed or taught that give a picture of my range of teaching and also research interests since teaching is always research-led. This is relevant in terms of exploring how through feminist, postcolonial, international and social historical perspectives we, my students, graduates and colleagues were challenging the normative, Eurocentric, patriarchal, phallocentric and bourgeois norms of our society.
LIBRARY
There is also an essay on the formation and shape of the library I appear to have created over these years in order to be able to research and teach these multiple challenges in and to Art Histories, Feminist and Postcolonial Theories, Cultural Studies, Holocaust Studies, Jewish Studies, Monographs and Catalogues of Artist-Women.
PUBLICATION: NEW ENCOUNTERS SERIES
The archive includes New Encounters publication series I initiated at I B Tauris that is now part of Bloomsbury. For more information click here.
UNPUBLISHED OR UNAVAILABLE TEXTS BY GRISELDA POLLOCK
Coming soon,
