Speakers
- Mia L. Bagneris
- Tulane University, Associate Professor
Mia L. Bagneris is Associate Professor in the Newcomb Art Department and affiliated faculty in the Africana Studies Program at Tulane University. Concentrating primarily on 18th- and 19th-century British and American art and visual culture, Dr. Bagneris’s scholarship explores the representation of race in the Anglo-American world and the place of images in the histories of slavery, colonialism, empire, and the construction of national identities. Her first book Colouring the Caribbean: race and the Art of Agostino Brunias was published by Manchester University Press in 2018. She is currently at work on Imagining the Oriental South: The Enslaved Mixed-Race Beauty in British Art and Visual Culture, c. 1865-1880 and, with Anna Arabindan-Kesson, Beyond Recovery: Reframing the Dialogues of Early African Diaspora Art History, c. 1700-1900. Her scholarship has been supported by such institutions as the W.E.B. DuBois Institute, the Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, and the A.C.L.S.