Name: Abigael van Alst

Professional Category: Postdoctoral Researcher (IHA Fellowship)

Research Project: Decolonizing the Avant-Garde: The Aesthetic Imagination of Global Cultural Geographies in the non-Western Avant-Garde

Supervisor: Mariana Pinto dos Santos (IHA-NOVA FCSH / IN2PAST)

Thematic areas: Avant-Garde Studies; Modernity and Modernisms; Global Art History; Inter-artistic Practices

Position within IHA: SC Member | RG Member [Art Theory, Historiography, and Criticism]

Contact: avalst@fcsh.unl.pt

CIÊNCIA ID: 241A-9B25-B225

ORCiD: 0000-0003-4653-852X

Biography

Abigael van Alst is a postdoctoral researcher at the Art History Institute at NOVA FCSH. She obtained her PhD in 2023 (KU Leuven) with a thesis entitled: “Avant-Garde Cosmogonies: World Creation and the Gesamtkunstwerk in the Early Twentieth Century Avant-Garde.” 

Her current research project studies the neo-avant-garde within a global context and focuses on cultural geographies and maps put forth in the second half of the twentieth century by artists and writers who were operating outside of the traditional Euro-American centres of cultural power.

She has published in Fabula LHT, and in De Gruyter’s book series on Comparative studies (Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft), and European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies.

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Abbreviations:
SC – Scientific Council; RG – Research Group