Philip Kelleher, Ph.D.

Biography

Philip Kelleher joined the UHCL faculty as assistant professor of humanities in 2024 with a focus on art and activism. His teaching and research focus on the 20th and 21st centuries throughout the Americas. He offers undergraduate and graduate courses on campus and in the important Transforming Lives by Degrees program.

He received his PhD in art history from Rice University and an MA from Binghamton University, SUNY. He was previously a Helena Rubinstein Critical Studies Fellow in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Independent Study Program and a Critical Studies Fellow in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Core Program.

He has published articles in Woman's Art Journal and Art Journal, and he regularly writes exhibition reviews for the online publication Glasstire.com.

Publications

Philip Kelleher, "Curdling the Photographic Image: Ana Mendieta's Silueta," Woman'’'s Art Journal 44, no. 2 (Fall/Winter 2023): 13-21.

Philip Kelleher, "Paul Chan's RE: The Operation: Empathetic Portrait or Revenge Fantasy?," Art Journal 78, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 85-101.