Rebecca Wolff
Department of Fine Art and Art History
Assistant Professor
Torggler Fine Arts Center 319
(757) 594-7883
rebecca.wolff@cnu.edu
Education
- Ph D in African Art, Modern Latin American Art, University of California, Los Angeles
- MA in Modern Art History, Columbia University
- BA in Art History and English Honors, University of Texas, Austin
Teaching
African Art
Global Modernisms
Latin American Art
Research
Modern and contemporary African art
Nigerian art
Art as it intersects with the postcolonial state
The relationships between art and propaganda
Manifestations of memory and trauma in art
Biography
Dr. Rebecca Wolff is an art historian with a focus on modern and contemporary African art. She is currently working on a book manuscript titled "Experience and Memory: The Nigerian Civil War (1967–1970) and Nigerian Contemporary Art," which examines how artistic production intersects with armed conflict through the lenses of testimony, trauma, and memory. Her research has been supported by the Smithsonian Institution, the American Council of Learned Societies, the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Fowler Museum at UCLA. Her writing on African and African Diasporic art has appeared in numerous journals and international exhibition catalogues.
Selected Accomplishments
- Roy Sieber Dissertation Award, Arts Council of the African Studies Association. (2024)
- Rebecca Wolff, "One Month Fellowship for research for "Experience and Memory: The Nigerian Civil War and Nigerian Contemporary Art"," Sponsored by The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin