Monica Juneja

Monica Juneja (* 1955 ) is an art historian and professor at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . Since 2009 she has held the chair for global art history in the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at Heidelberg University.

Life

Juneja studied at a university in New Delhi and received her doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. She was a professor in Delhi and a lecturer at the universities of Bielefeld , Halle ad Saale and Heidelberg. Before coming to Heidelberg, she was visiting professor at Emory University in Atlanta .

Research priorities

Her research focuses on the areas of European and Indian studies and their practices in visual representation, the disciplinary pathways of art history in South Asia, gender and political iconography in modern France, as well as the interface between Christianization , religious identities and cultural practices of early modern South Asia . In 2011 Juneja published the article "Global Art History and the Burden of Representation", which was part of an anthology entitled "Global Studies: Mapping Contemporary Art and Culture" at Hatje Cantz Verlag Stuttgart.

Publications

Books

• The Universality of Art History, Theme Issue, Critical Reports. Journal for Art and Cultural Studies, Issue 2, 2012 forthcoming. (Edited with Matthias Bruhn and Elke Werner)
• Frames of Reception. Islamicate Visual Culture in Western Contexts , Theme Issue, The Medieval History Journal, February 15, 2012 forthcoming. (Edited with Vera Beyer and Isabelle Dolezalek)
• Multi-Centered Modernisms. Reconfiguring Asian Art of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries , Theme Issue, Transcultural Studies, 2010-11. (Edited with Franziska Koch)
• Religious Conversion in medieval and pre-modern societies , Theme Issue, The Medieval History Journal vol. February 12, 2010, London / Los Angeles / New Delhi: Sage Publications. (Edited with Kim Siebenhüner)
• Religion and Borders in India and Germany: Studies on a Transnational Historiography , Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2009. (Edited with Margrit Pernau )
• Text and image in the reports on non-European worlds , Theme Issue Zeitblicke, 2008. (Edited with Barbara Potthast)
• Coping with natural disasters in pre-modern societies , New Delhi, 2007. (Edited with Franz Mauelshagen)
• The lives of objects in the pre-modern World , Theme Issue The Medieval History Journal, 8.1, 2005. (Edited with Gabriela Signori )
• Architecture in medieval India. Forms, contexts, histories. (Reader in Series South Asian History. Theories and Interpretations), New Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001.
• Exploring Alterity in Pre-Modern Societies (ed.) , Theme issue The Medieval History Journal, 5 (2), 2002.
• Peindre le paysan. L'image rurale dans la peinture française de Millet à Van Gogh , Paris: Editions du Makar, 1998.
• I preparation
• Painters and Painting in pre-colonial India, commissioned for Series South Asian History - Readings and Interpretations , Permanent Black, New Delhi.
• Can Art History be made Global? A Discipline in Transition (working title of a monograph in preparation)
• Gender and the Body in the Contemporary Arts (Edited with Melanie Trede)
• “Archaeologising” Angkor? Heritage between Local Social Practice and Global Virtual Reality , Heidelberg, Springer Verlag (Edited with Michael Falser)

Web links

• Monica Juneja on the institute website of Heidelberg University
• “Nothing belongs to just one culture” , Frankfurter Rundschau, November 28, 2014