Julia Allerstorfer-Hertel

Professional experience and teaching activities

  • from - until occupation, employer(institution), place, country
  • 2009-2013 Lecturer at the Katholisch-Theologischen Privatuniversität Linz, Austria
  • 2007–2009 Assistant, Galerie Area53, Gumpendorferstraße 56, 1060 Vienna, Austria
  • 2005–2009 Assistant, Galerie Schütz Kunst & Antiquitäten GmbH, Gluckgasse 3, 1010 Vienna, Austria
  • 2003 Internship, Kunstmuseum LENTOS Linz, Upper Austria
  • 2002 Internship, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Upper Austria
  • 2000–2005 Tour guide and travel manager in Greece, Italy, France and England

Research focus

  • Modern and contemporary art in Iran and in the Iranian diaspora
  • Self-portraits and visual representations of identity
  • Artistic practices in the context of migration, postcolonialism and transculturality
  • Transdisciplinary approaches and methods in art history with a focus on postcolonial studies
  • Exoticism, Orientalism and Primitivism

Research stays, erasmus+ mobilities

  • from - until research topic (Type of mobility - teaching or staff mobility), institution, place, country
  • July 2014 Research visit and lectures in Tehran, Iran
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