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Office:
CA 2034
Voice:
(910) 962-4118
FAX:
(910) 962-7106
E-mail: kirschkea@uncw.edu |
EDUCATION:
Ph.D. Tulane University
M.A. Tulane University
B.A. Loyola University
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
African-American Art
20th Century Art
African Art
Contemporary
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Amy Kirschke specializes in modern art,
including the art of the African Diaspora and African contemporary
art. Her current research includes West African contemporary art,
particulary the African biennial and the art of Ghana. She is interested
in how artists create visual memories in post-colonial Africa. Kirschke
is the author of Aaron Douglas: Art, Race and the Harlem Renaissance
(1995, University Press of Mississippi) and Art in Crisis: W.E.B.
Du Bois and the Art of African American Identity and Memory (2007,
Indiana University Press) which was awarded the 2007 SECAC Award for
Excellence in Scholarly Research and Publication. She is one of the
authors of Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist (Yale
University Press, 2007) and has contributed chapters to books in the
field of African American art/Harlem Renaissance, including Temples
for Tomorrow, African Diasporas in the Old and New Worlds,
Cary Wintz’s Harlem Speaks, The Souls of Black
Folk One Hundred Years Later and Women of color: Taking their
rightful place in leadership (2009.) She has written numerous
articles and exhibition essays in the field of African American and
African art, and is editing a volume on Women Artists of the Harlem
Renaissance, University Press of Mississippi, 2010. |
