Hilary Robinson
Hilary Robinson is Professor of Feminism, Art, and Theory, and Director, Centre for Doctoral Training: Feminism, Sexual Politics, and Visual Culture, Loughborough University. She trained as a painter (Newcastle University); her MA is in Cultural History (RAC); her PhD was supervised by Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds). She worked at the University of Ulster1992-2005, teaching the history and theory of contemporary art to studio Fine and Applied Art students. She became Professor of the Politics of Art and then Head of School there. She became Dean, College of Fine Arts, Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh PA, USA; 2005); and in 2012 she became Dean, School of Art and Design, Middlesex University (London). She moved to her present position in 2017. While in Pittsburgh her board memberships included The Andy Warhol Museum and The Mattress Factory Museum. In the UK she was an advisory board member for the AHRC-funded project Black Artists and Modernism (P.I.: Sonia Boyce).
Hilary’s publications include Visibly Female: Women and Art Today (ed.; 1987); Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women (2006); Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014 (ed.; 2015); Art of Feminism (co-authored; 2nd. ed., 2022); A Companion to Feminist Art (co-ed: Maria Buszek; 2019); Feminisms-Museums-Surveys (co-ed: Lara Perry; 2025).