Fabienne Dumont is a renowned art historian. Her doctoral thesis entitled ‘Women, art
and feminism in France in the 70s’ will be
published this year. She taught contemporary art history at university and is currently
lecturing at the Fine Arts School in Brittany.
As an art critic she has written about subjects such as feminism, gender problems
and homosexuality. She has published ‘La
rébellion du Deuxième Sexe – L’histoire de
l’art au crible des théories féminis-tes angloaméricaines’ (1970-2000) (Presses du réel,
2011) and is currently working on a monographic essay ‘Nil Yalter, À la confluence
des mémoires migrantes, du féminisme et
du monde ouvrier’. She regularly contributes to joint volumes, conferences, seminars and exhibition catalogues and writes
for art history, women’s history and gender
history reviews as well as organizing exhibitions in France and other countries.
