Angela Dimitrakaki is an art historian and writer. She is Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Edinburgh, where she directs the MSc in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating & Criticism and supervises PhDs on relevant subjects. Her monographs include Gender, ArtWork and the Global Imperative (2013), Art and Globalisation: From the Postmodern Sign to the Biopolitical Arena (2013, in Greek) and Feminism, Art, Capitalism (forthcoming from Pluto Press in 2025). She has edited the books Politics in a Glass Case: Feminism, Exhibition Cultures and Curatorial Transgressions (2013, with Lara Perry), Economy: Art, Production and the Subject in the 21st Century (2015, with Kirsten Lloyd) and, forthcoming in 2025, Depression Era: A Collective Lens in the Age of Crisis (with Alexander Strecker). She is a Corresponding Editor of Historical Materialism and an Editor of Third Text, including for the special issues on social reproduction and art (2017) and antifascism/art/theory (2019). The author of numerous chapters and articles on globalisation, labour, feminism, Marxism, and art institutions, among other subjects, Angela was on the Scientific Committee of the Horizon 2020-2024 project FEINART on socially engaged art in Europe.
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Website: https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-angela-dimitrakaki
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- University of Edinburgh
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