Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes

Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, University of Amsterdam. She recently directed the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture. Until 2014 she was Professor of Iconology in Belfast, where she led a Research Graduate School. She researched her PhD as a Zurich James Joyce Foundation Scholar and defended it in Cologne. She held an Irish Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship at University College Dublin.Her research focuses on social art practices, art(istic) research, word and image studies, visual legacies of (Irish) writers, performance art, the historiography of art, and curation.