Annelies studies women’s strategy of self-fashioning in the early modern period, specifically through their self-portraits. She examines the prejudices embedded within the practice of women looking at themselves in a mirror through vanitas prints and paintings. She is particularly interested in learning how women artists circumvented those prejudices in their self-portraits and how they came up with methods of self-representation that would avoid accusations of vanity or pride.
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Topic: The role of medicine in investigating stigmata, the (re)appearance of Christ’s Holy Wounds on various bodies, in the context of Catholic canonization procedures....
Topic: Why come back to graduate studies now? Overview: After a successful career as a journalist for the CBC and then a member of...
In this episode of Grad Chat, host Colette Steer sits down with Julia Hale who just defended her Master of Education thesis on the...
