Golovchenko offers a queer reconsideration of two Pre-Raphaelite paintings through their symbolism of water, vegetation, and the female body.
Margaryta Golovchenko
Margaryta Golovchenko (she/her) received her PhD in art history from the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on human-animal relationships in visual and material culture from the eighteenth century to the present. Her research on the subject has been published in the edited volume Going Feral: A Proposition for a Speculative Animism in the Arts and is forthcoming in the book Environmental and Cultural Destructions at Imperial Margins. She has also written on topics related to popular culture, poetry, and affect theory for publications such as Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, The Journal of Posthumanism, and Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Inquiry. Margaryta is a sessional lecturer in art history at Alberta University of the Arts and the University of Calgary, an associate editor for Material Culture Review and the reviews editor for Arc Poetry, as well as a poet and literary and arts critic.
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