Revisiting her connection with Saint Rosalia, Jay offers a new materialist reflection on religion, femininity and screen technology.
Emily Jay
Emily Jay is an Assistant Professor of Art at Ohio Northern University. She earned her BFA from Ohio Northern University, her MFA from Bowling Green State University, and is currently finishing work on her Ph.D. through Texas Tech University, where she is utilizing arts-based research methodologies and new materialist philosophies to uncover the relationship between the city of Palermo and her patron saint, Rosalia. Emily’s scholarship and art practice are centred on engaging with Italy’s past in creative ways so as to disrupt binary ways of thinking while also re-centring female perspectives into historical narratives.
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