Dr Nathalie Dietschy

Nathalie Dietschy (PhD) is tenure-track assistant professor at the Department of Art History at the University of Lausanne.
Specialized in contemporary art, her research focuses on photography from a cultural perspective. Her interests include the representations of Christian themes in contemporary art and photography, the history of photobooks and artists’ books, as well as the relationship between contemporary art, photography and digital culture. She is the author of The Figure of Christ in Contemporary Photography (Reaktion Books, 2020), and the coeditor of Le Christ réenvisagé (Infolio, 2016) and Jésus en representations (Infolio, 2011). She has published several papers, among them “After Robert Frank’s Photobook The Americans: Remakes, Variations, and Iconoclasm” (Photographies, 2020), and “ From Urine to the Hammer: Andres Serrano and the Stigmata of Scandal” (in: Michel Draguet (ed.), Andres Serrano: Uncensored Photographs, 2016).