Dr Amy Tobin
Lecturer in the History of Art
Curator of Exhibitions, Events and Research at Kettle's Yard
Email: ajt207@cam.ac.uk
Office Phone: 01223 330462
Biography
I completed my PhD at the University of York in 2017 with a thesis titled 'Working Together, Working Apart: Feminism, Art and Collaboration in Britain and North American, 1970–1981'. I was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. in 2014 and a Terra Foundation for American Art pre-doctoral researcher in 2014–5. After my PhD I won post-doctoral research grants from the Paul Mellon Centre for British Art and the Henry Moore Foundation.
I have taught Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory at the Universities of York and Birmingham, as well as at Goldsmiths, University of London, City and Guilds Art School and West Dean College. My research is published in British Art Studies, MIRAJ and Tate Papers and I have contributed chapters to Collaboration and its (Dis)Contents, (Courtauld Books Online, 2017), Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and Experimental Film in the 1970s (IB Tauris, 2017), Feminism and Art History Now (IB Tauris, 2017) and A Companion to Feminist Art (Blackwell, 2017 [forthcoming]). I am also a co-editor of London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent and Ephemeral Networks 1960–1980 (Penn State University Press, 2018 [forthcoming]) with Jo Applin and Catherine Spencer. I co-edited The Art of Feminism (Chronicle and Tate, 2018) with Lucy Gosling, Helena Reckitt and Hilary Robinson. I am currently working on a monograph on feminism, art and sisterhood.
At Cambridge, I teach across the Tripos, and convene the special subject module 'Vision and Representation in Contemporary Art', which focuses on the politics of figuration, surveillance and censorship in recent art and visual culture.
Research Interests
My research interests include: the relationship between feminism, art practice and art history; art and queer theory; art and post-colonialism; art and critical race theory; British and American art in the 1970s and 1980s; experimental cinema and moving image art; collaboration, collectivity and community in Modern and Contemporary art.
I co-organise the project: Group Work: Art and Feminism' with Dr Catherine Grant (Goldsmiths) and Dr Rachel Warriner (Courtauld Institute of Art). https://groupworkartandfeminism.wordpress.com/
Key Publications
Books
A Woman’s Place, exh. cat. London: Raven Row, 2017. Text available at: http://www.ravenrow.org/texts/75/
Edited Books
With Jo Applin, Catherine Spencer, London Art Worlds: Mobile, Contingent and Ephemeral Networks 1960–1980, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. Out Now: http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07853-3.html
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Women and Work: A Document on the Division of Labour in Industry 1974 by Margaret Harrison, Kay Hunt and Mary Kelly, Tate In Focus Research Publication, 2018. [forthcoming]
‘I’ll Show You Mine, If You Show Me Yours’, in the ‘Mediating Collaboration’ special edition of Tate Papers, edited by Catherine Spencer, Amy Tobin and Harry Weeks, no. 25, Spring 2016. http://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/25/i-show-you-m...
‘Moving Pictures: Intersections between Art, Film and Feminism in the 1970s’ in MIRAJ, Feminisms Special Issue, edited by Catherine Elwes, vol.4, no.1–2, Spring 2016: 118–135.
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
‘On Feminism, Art and Collaboration’ in A Companion to Feminist Art, edited by Hilary Robinson and Maria Buszek, Blackwell, 2018. [forthcoming]
‘Rapunzel, Let Down Your Hair (1978)’ in Other Cinemas: Politics, Culture and British Experimental Film in the 1970s edited by Sue Clayton and Laura Mulvey, I.B. Taurus, 2017.
With Victoria Horne, ‘An Unfinished Revolution in Art Historiography, Or How to Write a Feminist Art History?’ Feminist Review, no.107, 2014: 75–83. Republished in Feminism and Art History Now: Writing, Curating and Caring for the Past, IB Taurus, 2017.
