Dr Zehra Jumabhoy
BA, MA, MA, PhD
Expertise
Zehra Jumabhoy is an art historian and curator specialising in modern and contemporary South Asian art; exploring its socio-political connections to Empire, diasporic identity and (post)colonial landscapes.
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Biography
Zehra received a Joint Honours BA in English Literature & Philosophy from Durham University (2001), a Masters in English Literature & Philosophy from Warwick University (2003) and a Masters in Art History from The Courtauld Institute of Art (2006), where she was awarded the Stavros S. Niarchos Trust Scholarship. Subsequently, Zehra was a Steven and Elena Heinz Scholar at The Courtauld, where she completed her PhD on Indian art and nationalism (2017). She speaks regularly at academic conferences, Biennales, museums, art fairs and literary festivals. For more information see: www.zehrajumabhoy.com
Research interests
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
The Imperial Subjects: (Post)Colonial Conversations between South Asia & Wales Seminar Series
Principal Investigator
Description
The Imperial Subjects Seminar Series won a £12,000 bursary from the British Art Network (Tate & Paul Mellon Centre for British Art) for 2020. Spearheaded by Glynn Vivian Art gallery…Managing organisational unit
Department of History of Art (Historical Studies)Dates
01/01/2020 to 01/10/2020
Publications
Recent publications
01/02/2023“Making Place for People?
How Secular is Art?
Dark Suns: S.H. Raza
New Left Review
S.H.Raza: Dark Suns
New Left Review
Tilting at Thresholds
The 1947 Partition of British India
Teaching
At The Courtauld, Zehra lectured on and helped design undergraduate and postgraduate programmes (2016-2020). She has been a visiting lecturer at various academic institutions in the UK, India, Pakistan and Singapore, including teaching on MA programmes dedicated to Asian art and theory at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London (2017-22) and leading core modules in the “Asian Art Histories” MA at Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore (2021-22).
Current Units at UoB:
BA1 - Making & Materiality: Painting (Co-designed and Co-Taught with Dr Sophie Kelly)
BA2: Art & Empire
BA3: Approaches to the Artist
BA2: Theorising the Object (Unit Coordinator for this Team-Taught Unit)