About The Author

Andrea Terry

Dr. Andrea Terry has researched and engaged in critical feminist art histories and art practices for the past fifteen years. She received her BA (Hons) in Art History from McMaster University in 2002. She then went on to complete her MA (2005) and PhD (2010) in Visual and Material Culture at Queen’s University. She has received numerous awards and research fellowships, such as the Gray Graduate Fellowship in Canadian Art (2007), the Margaret Angus Research Fellowship at the Museum of Health Care at Kingston (2007), and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, held in the School of Canadian Studies at Carleton University (2010–12). She has also taught art history courses at universities across Canada, including Queen’s University, Carleton University, Mount Allison University, and Lakehead University.

 

Terry is the Director of the StFX Art Gallery at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia. She has previously curated exhibitions at Thunder Bay Art Gallery and Definitely Superior Art Gallery. Her research, teaching, and curatorial practice explore historic, modern, and contemporary visual and material cultural production in Canada, critical museum studies, and participatory installation practices. She has published articles in international peer-reviewed academic journals such as Gender and History, Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review, the Journal of Heritage Tourism, and FUSE magazine, and has contributed chapters to books. Her first sole-authored book, Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums, was published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2015.