Phone: (250) 807-9797
E-mail: carolyn.machardy@ubc.ca
As an art historian, I spend a lot of time looking at art and thinking about it. Sometimes I have my camera with me, sometimes I don’t.

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In academe we teach courses in our area of specialization; thus I teach courses in Canadian and Modern Art History, Global Contemporary Art History, and Disability Studies and Art History. 

However this doesn't mean that I only look at art within these parameters: I look at all art and visual culture, from Romanesque sculpture to contemporary works by Latin American artists, and on a recent trip to London, at the Islamic Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.  What matters to me is bringing a critical eye to bear on art history and visual culture, engaging contemporary theoretical models to extend understanding of this thing we call ‘art’.

For me, teaching and research are intertwined: teaching is, in many ways, modeling for students how they can further develop their interests in their various fields of study. It all starts with looking, and a healthy dose of curiosity is a tremendous help.

My current research interests revolve around mapping early visual  representations of the Okanagan Valley, and in  investigating the role of the tourist-artist in documenting the changing cityspace of Paris around 1900.

• Art History Program
• Selected Publications

Banksy Vs Robbo, London

Barry Flannagan, Hare

St. Martin's Church, York

Doris Salcedo,  Shibboleth

 photography by Carolyn MacHardy