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Faculty of Culture, Creative and Performing Arts

Department of Cultural Studies

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Dr. Therese Hadchity

Dr. Therese Hadchity

Temporary Lecturer in Cultural Studies

Department: Cultural Studies

Bio

Therese Hadchity arrived in Barbados in 1990 with a degree in art history from the University of Copenhagen. Having settled into Barbados and added two more citizens to the population, she started to immerse herself into the local art community, first as an observer, then as a writer and curator. In 2000 she opened the Zemicon Gallery in Bridgetown which, for a decade, showcased the work of our most ambitious artists. In that period, she worked tirelessly as a writer, curator, and advisor, specializing in Barbadian art, but maintaining a keen interest in art of the region at large. When she returned to academia in 2009, it was to more deeply understand the political and intellectual changes she had witnessed, through the arts, over the previous decade. Her doctoral dissertation, which was awarded a high commendation, was eventually published as The Making of A Caribbean Avantgarde by Purdue University Press.

Therese Hadchity has been a temporary full time lecturer in the Cultural Studies Department since 2021. She continues to write on Caribbean artists and art history, curate exhibitions, document private and public collections and is occasionally asked to serve as an judge, evaluator or art consultant for public and private entities.  Her research interests include the Caribbean anti-colonial traditions and its cultural expressions and aesthetics; artists and artists’ organizations; intersections between contemporary critical and scientific thought; as well as environmental humanities and the arts.

Qualifications

PhD Cultural Studies (UWI, Cave Hill), 2016

Research Areas

Caribbean visual art, cultural policy, anti-colonial thought, postmodern theory, diaspora, post-nationalism, networks, humanism and its antagonists.

Teaching Areas

  • Critical Foundations in the Arts
  • Aesthetics, Theory and Criticism
  • Introduction to Caribbean Cultural Studies
  • Global Media and Caribbean Culture
  • Exhibiting Cultures
  • Theorizing Caribbean Culture (various iterations)
  • Dynamics in Caribbean Culture
  • Theory and Conceptualization of Culture

Select Publications

“When the old is dying and the new has not yet been born: Un-concealing a moment in Barbadian art history.” Faire Mondes/Making Worlds, issue 5, January 2025. https://fairemondes.com/moment-cle-histoire-art-barbadien/#en

“Has the Case for Cultural Resistance Expired? From Nationalism to Cosmopolitanism in the Visual Arts of the Anglophone Caribbean”. Caribbean Quarterly. Volume 63. 2017. Issue 1, pp. 29-61.

“Criticality and context: migrating meanings of art from the Caribbean” Sustainable Art Communities: Creativity and Policy in the Transnational Caribbean Issue 5, Summer 2016, pp. 23-39 (https://openartsjournal.org/issue-5/

Forthcoming (2025/26): BRILL volume on Caribbean Modernism, co-edited w. Carlos Garrido Castellano and Aaron Kamugisha.

Forthcoming (2025/26): Contribution to The Routledge Companion to Global Art Histories 

Forthcoming (2025/26): Contribution to The Routledge Companion to Gender and Feminist Studies in the Caribbean

 

Keywords

Caribbean cultural theory, aesthetics, art history, and policy, postcolonial and posthumanist thought, environmental thinking and policy.