Dr. Megan Driscoll

Megan Driscoll is an historian of modern and contemporary art. Before coming to Richmond, she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in the National Gallery of Art. Her research explores the intersections between postwar photographic and time-based media and discourses on race in the African diaspora, focusing primarily on North America. Recent publications can be found in the Rhizome Net Art Anthology, The Art Happens Here; VoCA Journal; and The Black Scholar, and she is currently undertaking a new study of the practice of contemporary artist Sondra Perry. Dr. Driscoll has presented this work at a wide range of professional conferences and symposia, including ASAP and CAA, and she is on the Executive Board of the CAA-affiliated Society of Contemporary Art Historians. She is also working on a book manuscript, Art on the Internet and the Digital Public Sphere, which examines artworks from the long 1990s that interrogated the popular notion that the internet represents a new, digital, and potentially global public sphere. The book makes the case for the critical role of art in understanding how and why we experience publicness online and the consequences of how digital publicness is defined.