Dr. Heather Graham

Heather Graham (she/her) is a co-founder and the Practitioner of ARTSQ. She is also an Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Art at California State University, Long Beach. Before that she was an Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado. She earned her BA at Loyola Marymount University and an MA and PhD in the history of art from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research and publications explore early modern Italian art as it intersects with the history of the body and of the emotions, gender, and religion.

Heather is co-editor with Dr. Lauren Kilroy-Ewbank and contributing author for Visualizing Sensuous Suffering and Affective Pain in Early Modern Europe and the Spanish Americas (Brill, 2018) and  Art, Religion, and Emotions in the Transatlantic World, 1450-1800 (Brill, 2021). Her monograph, Bodies of Mourning: Grief, Maniera, and the History of Affect, c. 1520–1550 (forthcoming 2025), considers sixteenth-century Italian images of biblical mourning over Christ in light of the history of gender, the body, and the emotions. She is Co-Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies at CSU, Long Beach, and organizer of the CSULB Center for Medieval and Renaissance Study’s conference, Afterlives: Reinvention, Reception, Reproduction, held biennially at Forest Lawn Museum in Glendale, CA. Read more about Heather.