Temple University

Emily Schollenberger (she/her) is a PhD candidate specializing in Modern and Contemporary Art of the Atlantic World, with a focus in the history and theory of photography. Her dissertation considers contemporary artists’ reimagining of landscape photography to engage with traumatic histories, archival records, and afterlives of colonialism. She has presented her work at numerous academic conferences and through the Library Company of Philadelphia’s public programming. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from The Huntington Library, New College, Oxford, The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the Temple University Graduate School, and the University of Michigan William L. Clements Library.

In addition to research, Schollenberger sees teaching as an important expression of her art historical practice. She earned the Teaching in Higher Education Certificate from the Center for the Advancement of Teaching in 2021 and received the Art History Department’s Art History Graduate Teaching Award in 2022. She has taught courses on multiple topics at Temple and at Saint Joseph’s University, including global art history surveys, post-war art, representations of violence in art, the history of photography, and memory in contemporary art. Her museum experience includes working at the Creative Discovery Museum, Please Touch Museum, The Phillips Collection, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Currently she is a graduate writing tutor and trainer at Temple’s Student Success Center.

BA, Art, Art History Concentration, Covenant College, 2017 

Dissertation Title: “Shifting Sediments: Photography, Memory, and Imperial Landscapes in Contemporary Art” 

Advisor: Erin Pauwels, PhD