Faculty

Krista A. Thompson (Ph.D., Emory University 2002) is Assistant Professor of Art History and an independent curator. She teaches courses on race and representation, arts of the African diaspora, visual cultures of colonialism, and slavery in the visual imagination. She is the author of An Eye for the Tropics: Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque  (Duke University Press, 2006), an examination of the colonial imaging of the Anglophone Caribbean in photographs and its effects on landscape, history, race, governmentality, and contemporary art.  She has published in American Art, Small Axe, and The Drama Review.  She is the curator of Developing Blackness: Studio Photographs of “Over the Hill” Nassau in the Independence Era (2008), an exhibition at the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.  She is currently completing the edited volume Art Beyond Boundaries: Visual Culture in the Anglo-Caribbean and is co-editor, with Huey Copeland, Wayne Modest, and Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, of a forthcoming volume on Slavery and the Visual Imagination.  She is also working on a book manuscript and documentary on visual culture and black youth in the northern Caribbean and Southern United States, which investigate the intersections between vernacular forms of photography, performance, and contemporary art.

krista-thompson@northwestern.edu

curriculum vitae

Photo courtesy of Mary Hanlon