Golovchenko offers a queer reconsideration of two Pre-Raphaelite paintings through their symbolism of water, vegetation, and the female body.
Margaryta Golovchenko
Margaryta Golovchenko is a PhD candidate in the art history department at the University of Oregon. Her research, which is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, examines women-animal relationships in French and British art and the visual and material culture of the 18th and 19th centuries. Her scholarship has appeared in publications such as Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Fantastika Journal, Symbolism: An International Annual of Critical Aesthetics, Journal of Posthumanism, and Capacious, with book chapters forthcoming in the edited volumes Environmental and Cultural Destruction at Imperial Margins (DeGruyter), Going Feral: A Proposition for a Speculative Animism in the Arts (Vernon Press), and Fairies: A Companion (Peter Lang). She is also an art and literary critic.
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