Emmy Monaghan

PhD Student


Emmy Monaghan is a doctoral student 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 Praxis Fellow in Digital Humanities at the UVa Library Scholars' Lab.

During her time as a graduate student, she has co-curated the exhibition Issuing Modernisms: Modern Types, Stories, & Aesthetics at the Special Collections Library and served as a moderator for the panel “Yolŋu Short Films by the Mulka Project” as part of the opening of Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala at the Asia Society in New York. She also assisted on 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 the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection where she catalogued and researched the Basil Hall collection of prints. She contributed to several exhibitions at the Kluge-Ruhe, including co-curating Performing Country and Boomalli Prints & Paper: Making Space as an Art Collective. Emmy also served as the Curatorial Assistant for Oliphant: Unpacking the Archive at the Special Collections Library. She received her B.A. in Art History from the University of Virginia.