Jill Bennett

Research Expertise
Associate Professor Bennett is an art theorist who published widely on contemporary art and new media, particularly regarding politics and trauma. She is the founding Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, UNSW, overseeing a dynamic conference and exhibitions program, and is a curator of international exhibitions. She has initiated a collaborative research project with prominent scholars in the Netherlands, USA and South Africa.

Qualifications
Ph.D, Courtauld Institute, London University, United Kingdom 1993
M.A, Courtauld Institute, London University, United Kingdom 1989
B.A (Hons.), Reading University, England, United Kingdom 1988

Current Appointment: Director of Postgraduate Research, College of Fine Art, The University of New South Wales and Director, Centre for Contemporary Art and Politics, The University of New South Wales.

Publications:
Significant Publications (1999-2004)
1. Bennett, J. Empathic Vision: Affect, Trauma and Contemporary Art. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2004.
2. Bennett, J. Dennis Del Favero: Fantasmi, Sydney: The University of New South Wales Press, 2004.
3. Bennett, J. and R. Kennedy eds, (2003) World Memory: Personal Trajectories in Global Time. London and New York: Palgrave, 2003.
4. Bennett, J. "The Aesthetics of Sense-Memory: Theorising Trauma through the Visual Arts." Trauma und Erinnerung/Trauma and Memory: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Eds. F. Kaltenbeck and P. Weibel. Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2000; Republished in Regimes of Memory. Ed. S. Radstone and K. Hodkin. New York: Routledge, 2003.
5. Bennett, J. "Stigmata and Sense Memory: the Topographic Body of St Francis as Affective Image." Art History, 24.1 (2001): 1-16.
6. Bennett, J. "Art, affect and the “bad death:” strategies for communicating the sense memory of loss." Signs 28:1 (2002): 333-351.
Career-best Publications
1. Bennett, J. and J. Dunn, J. Telling Tales. exhibition catalogue. Ivan Dougherty Gallery; Neue Galerie Graz exhibition catalogue, English and German. Sydney: Ivan Dougherty Gallery; College of Fine Arts, 1998. Also exhibition curator.
2. Bennett, J. "Leaving Nothing to Imagination: Obscenity and Postmodern subjectivity." The Rhetoric of the Frame. Ed. P. Duro. New York: Routledge, 1996. 242-257.