Kathryn M. Floyd, PhD

Kathryn Floyd teaches courses in modern and contemporary art history, the history of African art, and the history of photography. She studied art history at Vanderbilt University (B.A.), the University of Georgia (M.A.), and the University of Iowa (Ph.D.). 

Professor Floyd researches twentieth-century German art with a focus on the history and theory of art exhibitions and their mediation in catalogues, photographs, and film. She has written about contemporary biennials and the postwar history of documenta, the subject of her 2006 dissertation and an in-progress book manuscript. She also writes often about exhibitions in early twentieth-century Germany including publications on the display of artworks by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Käthe Kollwitz, and the German Dadas.

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Contact:
210 Biggin Hall
Department of Art and Art History
Auburn University

kmfloyd [at] auburn.edu
334.844.3393