Dr Deborah Schultz
Assistant Professor of Art History
Dr Deborah Schultz
Dr Deborah Schultz received her PhD in Art History from the University of Oxford. Her undergraduate studies were in Fine Art (Sculpture) at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and she was a postgraduate scholar at the Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland.
Dr Schultz specialises in 20th century and contemporary art with particular reference to issues of memory, and word-image works. She has taught for a number of years, most recently at Central St Martins College of Art and Design, the University of Sussex and the University of Georgia at Oxford. During 2000 she held a Research Fellowship at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds and from 2001–4 she was a Research Fellow funded by The Leverhulme Trust at the University of Sussex. Her monograph Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue was published in 2007. She is currently working on a book on art and memory, and researching a project on biography and photography.
Courses Taught
AVC 503 Art & Its Histories
ARH 352 Art in Context
ADM 438 Contemporary Visual Culture
Publications
Books
Arnold Daghani's Memories of Mikhailowka: The Illustrated Diary of a Slave Labour Camp Survivor, co-edited with Edward Timms (
Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period: Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, co-authored with Edward Timms (Oxford: Routledge, 2009), first published as a special issue of Word & Image journal, vol. 24, no. 3 (July–September 2008)
Marcel Broodthaers: Strategy and Dialogue (
Verfolgt-Gezeichnet: Der Maler Arnold Daghani [Persecuted-Marked: The Artist Arnold Daghani], co-edited with Helmut Braun (Springe: zu Klampen Verlag, 2006)
‘The Conquest of Space’: On the Prevalence of Maps in Contemporary Art (
Chapters in Edited Volumes
‘Crossing Borders: Migration, Memory and the Artist’s Book’, in Moving Subjects, Moving Objects: Migrant Art, Artefacts and Emotional Agency, Maruška Svašek (ed.) (Oxford: Berghahn), forthcoming 2012
‘Monuments as Visual Memory’, in Matter and History, Anca Benera and Alina Serban (eds) (Bucharest: Centre for Visual Introspection, 2011), 235-250
‘Survival and memory: Arnold Daghani’s verbal and visual diaries’ in Local History, Transnational Memory in the Romanian Holocaust, Valentina Glajar and Jeanine Teodorescu (eds) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), 91-117
‘Three-dimensional learning: exploring emotional responses to learning and interacting with artefacts’, co-authored with Chana Moshenska, in The emotional dimensions of learning and researching lives: a neglected species? (
‘Pictorial Narrative, History and Memory in the Work of Arnold Daghani’, in Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image, Grace Lees-Maffei (ed.), Working Papers on Design vol. 2 (
‘Methodological Issues: Researching Socialist Realist
‘Der Künstler Arnold Daghani’, in “Verfolgt-Gezeichnet”: Der Maler Arnold Daghani, (Springe: zu Klampen Verlag, 2006), co-edited with Helmut Braun, 9–24
‘The Possibilities of Pictorial Narrative: Word – Image – History in the Work of Arnold Daghani’, in History in Words and Images, Hannu Salmi (ed.) (
‘Forced Migration and Involuntary Memory: The Work of
‘Religion and Identity in the Work of
‘Uncovering the Optical Unconscious: The Photography of Chrystel Lebas’, in Chrystel Lebas: L’espace temps - Time in Space (
‘Arnold Daghani: Der Künstler als zeitzeuge’, in Lasst mich leben! Stationen im Leben des Künstlers Arnold Daghani, Felix Rieper and Mollie Brandl-Bowen (eds.) (Springe: zuKlampen Verlag, 2002), 306–18
‘Us and them, this and that, here and there, now and then: collecting, classifying, creating’, co-authored with Martin Kemp, in Strange and Charmed. Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts, Siân Ede (ed.) (
Recent Journal Articles
‘Public memory and national identity under construction: The trajectory of monuments in Romania in the Communist and Post-Communist periods’, Centropa (New York), January 2010
‘Chrystel Lebas: The Wait: Culture and nature: The immensity and imagination of the forest’, Portfolio, November 2008, 34–5
‘Marcel Broodthaers’, Milton Keynes Gallery, Art Monthly, March 2008, 27–8
‘Displacement and Identity:
‘“Podb?j przestzeni”: O mapach w sztuce wsp?lczesnej’, Czas Kultury (
‘In Absentia’, Czas Kultury (Poznan), nr. 1 (106) (2002), 118–20
‘Displacement and Identity: Arnold Daghani in Socialist Realist Romania’, www.artmargins.com, June 2002
‘In Absentia: Reviewing the Retrospective’, Art Monthly, September 2001, 7–9
‘Telling Tales – Profile of Emma Kay’, Art Monthly, March 2001, 22–3
‘Flights of Fancy – Panamarenko’, Art Monthly, March 2001, 13–16
Conference / Seminar Convenor
Session chair of ‘Writing as Art’ at Artists’ Writings 1850 – Present, The Courtauld Institute of Art,
Co-convenor with Edward Timms, Conflict, Document, Representation: From the Habsburg Empire to the Holocaust, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 2009
Co-convenor with Chana Moshenska, Artists in Exile: Representations of Migration and Loss, University of Sussex, 2007, with a paper by Griselda Pollock, chaired by Monica Bohm-Duchen
Co-convenor with David Crowley, session on ‘Art, History and Memory in post-war Eastern and Central Europe’ at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Nottingham, 2004
Convenor of ‘The Role of Photography: Recovery of Memory, Resistance to Forgetting’ at the University of Sussex, 2002, with speakers Simon Norfolk, Ori Gersht and Julia Winckler
Recent Conference Papers
‘Travelling Words’ at Picture this: postcards and letters beyond text, University of Sussex, 2011
‘Nussbaum : un récit autobiographique en peinture’, at Autour de Felix Nussbaum: peindre l’écroulement du monde, Musée d’art et d’histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, 2010
‘Visual lives: The public and private spaces of photographs in the Arnold Daghani Collection’, at Life Writing and Intimate Publics, Seventh Biennial International Auto/Biography Association Conference (IABA), University of Sussex, 2010
‘Telling artefacts: The (non)representation of genocide in photography’, at Genocide as Actuality and Artefact, Second Global Conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS), University of Sussex, 2010
‘Textual Evidence: Intention and Insincerity in the Writings of Marcel Broodthaers’, at Artists’ Writings 1850 – Present, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2009
‘Word, image, memory: The artistic testimony of Arnold Daghani’, at Conflict, Document, Representation, Austrian Cultural Forum London, 2009
‘Art and Place: Crossing Borders in the Work of Perejaume’ in session on Dis-Locations: Movements and Migrations at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference,
‘Three-Dimensional Learning: Exploring emotional responses to learning and interacting with artefacts’ at Researching and theorising the emotional dimensions of learning and researching lives: a neglected species? 2008 Conference of the ESREA Life History and Biographical Research Network,
‘Art or document? The problematic post-war reception of words and images’ at Arts and Scholarship: Production and Reception,
‘Crossing Borders: Migration, Myths and Sites of Memory’ at Migrant art, artefacts and emotional agency, Queens University Belfast, 2007
‘Pictorial Narrative’ at Show/Tell: Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image, University of Hertfordshire, 2005
‘The Destiny of Monuments on Post-war
‘Artistic Dreams: The Temptation of the Free World and Other Modernist Myths’ in session on The Central European Diaspora at the College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, 2004
‘Figures of Repressed and Resonant Speech’, in session on Dislocution at the Association of Art Historians Annual Conference,
