Brigid Doherty is Associate Professor of German and Art & Archaeology
at Princeton University, where she has
also been a faculty member in the Programs in European Cultural Studies and
Media+Modernity since 2003. Prior to that,
she was Associate Professor of the History
of Art and Humanities at Johns Hopkins
University. In 2005, she held the inaugural
Research Forum Visiting Professorship at
the Courtauld Institute of Art in London and
in 2006-2007 she was the David and Roberta Logie Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
at Harvard University and an Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society
and Institute. In 2011, she was a Fellow at
the Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung in Berlin.
The author of many publications on modernist art, literature, and aesthetic theory
in the early twentieth-century, Doherty is
co-editor of a volume of writings by Walter
Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Its
Technological Reproducibility and Other
Writings on Media, which was published
by Harvard University Press in 2008. Also
in 2008, she participated in Manifesta 7:
The European Biennial of Contemporary
Art, in Trento, Italy, contributing a project
called ‘The Museum of Learning Things’.
She is currently completing a book on the
art of Rosemarie Trockel, another major
focus of her research in recent years.
