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Catherine Taylor

  • Senior Lecturer
  • Codirector, M.F.A. in Image Text and ITI Press
Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Department

Academic Research Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Print media
  • Experimental and hybrid forms
  • Literature
  • Visual art
  • Writing

Catherine Taylor is the author of Image Text Music, a collection of essays on visual culture; You, Me, and the Violence; and Apart, a mixed-genre memoir and political history that combines prose, poetry, cultural theory, and found texts from South African archives. Her first book, Giving Birth: A Journey Into the World of Mothers and Midwives (Penguin Putnam), won the Lamaze International Birth Advocate Award. Her essays, poetry, and reviews have appeared in the Seneca Review, The Colorado Review, Witness, The Believer, and elsewhere, and she is a founding editor of Essay Press, an independent press dedicated to publishing innovative essays in book form. Taylor was a cofounder and producer of The Human Rights Watch Film Festival, and she has received residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, the Millay Colony, and others. Taylor received her Ph.D. from Duke University. Taylor is a founding codirector of the Image Text M.F.A. and ITI Press.

woman with long grey hair wearing a blue blouse and smiling at the camera

Academic Research Areas

  • Collaborative practice
  • Interdisciplinary art
  • Print media
  • Experimental and hybrid forms
  • Literature
  • Visual art
  • Writing
Book cover of Image Text Music by Catherine Taylor with smaller image of a tiger figurine with a large pink tongue sticking out.
Image Text Music by Catherine Taylor.

Publications

  • Image Text Music

    Taylor, Catherine. Milan: SPBH Editions, 2022

  • You, Me, and the Violence

    Taylor, Catherine. Columbus, OH: 21st Century Essays, Ohio State University Press, 2017

  • Apart

    Taylor, Catherine. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2012, 2016

Selected Exhibitions and Presentations

  • Reading

    Tate Modern, London, 2022

  • Reading

    Bruno, Venice, Italy, 2022

  • Lecture

    Royal College of Art, London, 2022