Student profile

Juliette Bergeron

Faculty

Program

Juliette Bergeron (she/her/hers) was born on the Atikamekw territory of Nitaskinan and lives on Kanien'kéha territory of Tiohtià:ke. Her PhD research looks at how textile came to function as an artistic medium in Quebec. She is interested in the ideological, material, political conditions for the emergence of a medium.

Thesis Title: TBD

Supervisor: Dr. Elaine Cheasley Paterson

Research Interests:

Craft history
Textile history
Modernism
Historiography

Teaching Assistantships:

ARTH350 - ASPECTS OF THE HISTORY OF CERAMICS: CERAMIC “BODIES” (Dr. Rachel Gotlieb)
ARTH367 - Studies in 20th‑Century Art and Architecture: Performance from 1960 to Present Day (Dr. Vanessa Parent)
ARTH380 - Histories of Art History: Craft History (Dr. Susan Surette)
ARTH201 - Perspectives of Art History (Dr. Anna-Maria Moubayed Albasha)
ARTH202 - Perspectives of Art History (Dr. Julia Skelly)

Publications, conferences and exhibitions

"Voicing The Urgency and the Radical Potential of Caring," 'Voices: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Canada', Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery, Waterloo, ON (2022).
"Favoriser l’approche ratée: La productivité discursive de l’échec vue à travers des œuvres de tricot, Colloque," Symposium 'Repenser l’échec', Université du Québec à Montréal, May 2022.
"Performing in the Site of Exchange : ‘Janet Morton’s 1995 Newsflash: Madam Defarge Eat Your Heart Out’", Presentation for ARTH 367, Concordia University, June 2021.
Le Wartime Knitting Circle par "Sabrina Gschwandtner : stratégies d’intervention féminine dans la politique mondiale", Symposium « Repenser les genres et les sexualités dans les arts, de la Renaissance à aujourd’hui », Université de Montréal, December 2020.