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Julia Skelly is a specialist in nineteenth-century British art, queer/feminist art, ethics of photography, global contemporary art, craft, textiles, excess, decadence, and addiction. Her notable publications include 'Wasted Looks: Addiction and British Visual Culture, 1751-1919' (Ashgate, 2014), 'Uses of Excess: Visual Material Culture, 1600–2010' (Ashgate, 2014), 'Radical Decadence: Excess in Contemporary Feminist Textiles and Craft' (Bloomsbury, 2017), and 'Skin Crafts: Affect, Violence and Materiality in Global Contemporary Art' (Bloomsbury, 2022). Skelly has a forthcoming book titled 'Intersecting Threads: Cloth in Contemporary Queer, Feminist, Anti-Racist Art,' under an advance contract with Bloomsbury Academic. She serves as an Assistant Professor (LTA) in the Department of Art History at Concordia University.
Administered by the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema; focuses on cinematic arts practice and research-creation.