Julie McGee
Associate Professor, Africana Studies
Associate Professor, Art History
431 Ewing Hall
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-4288
[email protected]
Biography
Julie L. McGee Julie L. McGee is Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Art History, and Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, at the University of Delaware. She has curated exhibitions for the David C. Driskell Center, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, and Guga SThebe Community Arts Centre in Langa (Cape Town), South Africa. With Vuyile C. Voyiya, McGee co-produced the 2003 documentary film The Luggage is Still Labeled: Blackness in South African Art. In 20112012, she held the Dorothy Kayser Hohenberg Chair of Excellence in Art History at the University of Memphis. She was a 2019 Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. researching the American-Dutch artist Sam Middleton (19272015) and transnational art history. In collaboration with the High Museum of Art and the Portland Museum of Art, she curated of David Driskell: Icons of Nature and History (2021). Her extensive scholarship on Driskell includes the monograph David C. Driskell: Artist and Scholar (Pomegranate Communications, 2006) curatorial essays, artist interviews, and analyses of Driskells writings.