Jessica Williams (Student)

PhD Candidate

History of Art and Architecture

Harvard University

Forschung und Projekte

Aktuelle(s) Projekt(e)

A Working Woman's Eye: South African Photography and the Modernist Lens of Anne Fischer, 1937-48

Frühere Position(en)

Smithsonian Predoctoral Fellow, National Museum of African Art, Washington, D. C.

Fulbright Fellow, Cape Town, South Africa

Guest Lecturer, Art History and Visual Culture, Michaelis School of Fine Art, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums

Wits Art Museum (WAM) Curatorial Intern, Johannesburg, South Africa

Veröffentlichungen

Artikel

“A Pariah Among Parvenus: Anne Fischer and the Politics of South Africa’s New Realism(s),” October 173 (Summer 2020). (forthcoming)

“A Working Woman’s Eye: Anne Fischer and the South African Photography of Weimar Women in Exile.” In Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges, edited by Darren Newbury, Lorena Rizzo, and Kylie Thomas. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. (forthcoming)

“Printing and the Urgency of Translation: Peter Hujar, David Wojnarowicz, and the Task of Schneider/Erdman, Inc.” In Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981-2001, edited by Jennifer Quick, 38-63. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Art Museums, 2018.

Jessica Williams and Gary Schneider, “Building, Performing, and Translating the Negative: The Working Relationships of Schneider/Erdman, Inc.” VoCA Journal. Web-based publication, http://journal.voca.network/building-performing-and-translating-the-negative/.

Forschungsinteressen und Arbeitsgebiete

Global Modernisms, History of Photography, Women's and Gender Studies