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Background and fields of interest

Miriam van Rijsingen studied Art History, Philosophy and Film and Theater Studies at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, and graduated with a thesis on Eva Hesse and French Philosophy in 1984. She was appointed at the University of Amsterdam in 1985 as a specialist in Feminist Art History in the inter-department for Feminist Studies in the Humanities (untill 1992) as well as the Department of Art History. She received her PhD in 1999 with her dissertation Melancholische spiegels - Voorstellingen van gebrek en verlangen, vrouwelijkheid en kunstenaarschap in het werk van Anselm Feuerbach. Since then she developed several specialities, notabaly in the field of Contemporary Art and Art&Science.

Miriam is a specialist in Feminist Art History, Historiography and Art Theory, Art&Science,                Representation(al) Theory, Spectatorship and Phenomenology, Representation of the Body, Contemporary Artistic Strategies and New Media.

Faculty functions

• Chairperson of the BA Exam Committee of the Department of Art History (since 2005).                                                                           
• Delegate for the Art History Department of the Graduate School Exam Committee.                                                  

Boards and memberships

• Member of the Institute for Culture and History (ICG)
• Co-director of The Arts & Genomics Center (TA&GC) (since 2004)
• Boardmember Genootschap voor Esthetica (2002-2005)
• Advisory Board Niet Normaal/Difference on Display Foundation (2008-2010)