Julia Modes

Julia Modes is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Art History at the University Hildesheim. She studied art history, philosophy, and creative writing in Berlin, Melbourne, and New York. Her dissertation examined violence and history in the work of the US-American artist Cy Twombly against the backdrop of the cultural-political tensions between Europe and the United States in the 1960s. Since 2021, she has taught art history in Berlin, Fribourg, and Karlsruhe. Her current project investigates the role of women researchers in US-American art criticism, focusing on Rosalind Constable, the avant-garde talent scout for Time Inc.