Fall 2017 seminar: Ph.D. candidate, art history
Kaitlin Emmanuel holds a B.A. in art history from the University of California–Berkeley (2011) and aanM.A. in Asian studies from Cornell University (2017). Her work draws on postcolonial theory, cosmopolitanism, and comparative modernities to examine how socio-political legacies condition art making, particularly in studies of global modernism, nationalism, and the subaltern. As she enters the Ph.D. program in art history at Cornell, she extends this analysis to her experience working with and researching the Sri Lanka avant-garde, and her identity as a first-generation Sri Lankan-American. Prior to her graduate studies, she worked in various curatorial and editorial positions for cultural organizations, including Raking Leaves (Colombo), Sri Lanka Archive of Contemporary Art, Architecture and Design (Jaffna), Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), and Musée du Louvre (Paris), among others.