Elyse Speaks

Associate Professor of the Pracitce
Affiliated Faculty - Gender Studies
Art, Art History, and Design

Research Interests

Contemporary global art history, sculpture and gender, theories of value

Related Courses Taught

ARHI30531- Art, Vision, and Difference; ARHI30489 - Art Now (this course covers more than 50% artists of color and the topics of racial identity and related themes are explicitly discussed throughout)

Biography

Elyse Speaks teaches contemporary art history at the University of Notre Dame. Her areas of focus include sculpture, installation, process, and gender from the 1960s through today, with a particular interest in issues of value and hierarchy in the arts. These topics have been explored in publications on artists such as Karla Black, Lee Bontecou, and Louise Nevelson in publications such as Art Journal, The Sculpture Journal, and American Art. She is working on projects on installation art and gender in the 1990s, and on the innovative multi-media sculpture of African-American Paris-based artist Barbara Chase-Riboud.