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Catherine Speck is an art historian, writer, critic and curator. She is Professor Emerita of Art History and Curatorship at the University of Adelaide, and a Fellow of the Academy of Humanities of Australia. She convened and taught postgraduate programs in Art History and Curatorial and Museum Studies with the Art Gallery of South Australia from 2002 to 2020. She is a member of the Fay Gale Centre for Research into Gender, the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice, and the Adelaide Critics Circle (Visual Arts). She is also a regular exhibition reviewer for The Conversation. Recent essays include: ‘The 1970s: Progressive, Passionate and Provocative’ (with Jude Adams) in Margot Osborne (ed.), The Adelaide Art Scene 1939–2000 (2023); ‘The Total War and the Role of Women’, in Timothy Benson, The Great War and Global Media, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2023); and ‘On working as an Aboriginal Museum Director and Curator of the Berndt Museum’, in Sarah Scott, Helen McDonald and Caroline Jordan (eds), Crosscurrents in Australian First Nations and Non Indigenous Art (2023).