Temple University

Emily Schollenberger (she/her) is a PhD candidate at Temple University, where she specializes in Modern and Contemporary Art. Her dissertation analyzes contemporary artists’ use of landscape photography to engage with memory of colonial histories in the Americas and the Atlantic World. Her research interests include materiality, memory, trauma, and anti-colonial theory. She has presented her work publicly at numerous conferences and through the Library Company of Philadelphia’s Fireside Chat series. Her research has been supported by fellowships and grants from The Huntington Library, The Bancroft Library, the Temple University Graduate School, and the Tyler School of Art and Architecture. 

In addition to her research, Emily 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 designed and taught courses on multiple topics, including global survey courses, Post-War Art, representations of violence in art, and most recently a course on the history of photography at Saint Joseph’s University. Her museum experience includes working at the Creative Discovery Museum, Please Touch Museum, The Phillips Collection, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. 

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

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

Advisor: Erin Pauwels, PhD