Kathryn Brown

Kathryn Brown holds a D.Phil in French from the University of Oxford and a PhD in Art History from the University of London. Her books include Women Readers in French Painting 1870–1890 (2012), Matisse's Poets: Critical Performance in the Artist's Book (forthcoming, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) and (as editor and contributor) The Art Book Tradition in Twentieth-Century Europe (2013), Interactive Contemporary Art: Participation in Practice (2014/2016) and Perspectives on Degas (2016). Her articles have appeared in Print Quarterly, The History of Photography, Life Writing, Forum for Modern Languages Studies, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, n.paradoxa, and American Art, as well as in numerous edited collections. She is a Rhodes Scholar and has taught and held visiting fellowships at the University of Kent (United Kingdom), the University of British Columbia (Canada), Tulane University (USA) and the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University. She lectures in modern and contemporary art at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom