Simpson, Kathryn

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Kathryn Simpson, MA
Part-Time faculty
PhD Student - Art History

Thesis Title
Making Monsters: Strategies of Ugliness in Early-Twentieth-Century Viennese Self-Portraiture

Supervisor
Dr. Kristina Huneault









Research Interests

• Germanic Philosophy and Theory
• Self-Portraiture
• Psychoanalytic Theory
• Body Art
  

Biography
Kathryn Simpson is an interdisciplinary PhD student with MAs in Theory & Criticism (The University of Western Ontario) and Art History (York University).  Kathryn's Art History MA theorized the staging of melancholic maternity in Canadian photographer Janieta Eyre's Motherhood series. Her MA in Theory & Criticism examined the intersections between philosophy, psychoanalysis, and visual art in Germany and Austria 1890-1930. Kathryn's doctoral thesis analyzes the ugliness of early-twentieth-century Viennese self-portraiture, with significant reference to contemporaneous developments in philosophy and psychology.

Teaching
Undergraduate Courses

• ARTH 200 Perspectives of Art History
• ARTH 283I The Life and Work of...Frida Kahlo
• ARTH 383 Art & Philosophy