Emmy Monaghan

Biography

Emmy Monaghan is a 4th year PhD candidate who studies contemporary Indigenous Australian art under the direction of Professor Henry Skerritt. She is currently an Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow in Indigenous Studies and a former Praxis Fellow in Digital Humanities at the UVa Library Scholars' Lab. Her research focuses on intermedial installation, the moving image, and Indigenous curation. 

During her time as a graduate student, she has published several essays on artistic and curatorial practice from the Tiwi Islands. She also assisted in the organization of the Indigenous Print Curatorial Workshop at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection which was funded by the Getty Paper Project. 

Before entering the University as a doctoral student, Emmy worked as the Assistant Registrar at Kluge-Ruhe where she catalogued and researched the Basil Hall collection of over 1,300 prints. She contributed to many exhibitions at the Kluge-Ruhe, including co-curating Performing Country and Boomalli Prints & Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective.She received her B.A. in Art History from the University of Virginia.