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Charlotte Matter is a Professor in Art History at the University of Basel, where she specializes in contemporary art and feminist perspectives. She obtained her doctorate in art history from the University of Zurich in 2021, focusing on the role of plastics in art from the 1960s and 1970s through a feminist lens. Matter has actively contributed to the academic discourse around art history as a co-director of the research group 'Rethinking Art History Disability' and as a founding member of CARAH (Collective Anti-Racist Art History). In 2023, she co-edited the Sculpture Journal published by Liverpool University Press. Prior to her role at the University of Basel, she was a researcher and lecturer at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich, where she coordinated the master's program 'Art History Global Context' from 2015 to 2024. Additionally, she was a fellow during the 2019/2020 academic year at the Istituto Svizzero di Roma, part of the research initiative 'Rome Contemporary' at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome. Her research interests include artistic practices from the 1960s to the present, feminist art theory, materiality, class, labor, non-productivity, and intersectional perspectives in disability studies.
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