Lily Scott

Lily F. Scott is a doctoral candidate in Art History at Temple University, Philadelphia, and earned their BA in Art History from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania. 

Their areas of interest and expertise include American art and visual cultural of the 19th and 20th centuries, American Modernism, queer artists, women artists, expatriate artists, trans-Atlantic artistic exchange, queer theory, feminist theory, and performance theory. 

Scott is currently writing a dissertation that analyses the work of sapphic American artists who created queer portraiture in Paris between World Wars I and II and explores ideas of queer temporalities, material agency, female masculinity and queer precarity. 

Prior to specializing in the modern world’s art history, Scott was a Byzantinist and completed their master’s work on sixth-century mosaics and iconographic trends relating to the dissemination of hymns throughout the Byzantine Empire. 

Experience

Scott also teaches at Tyler School of Art & Architecture at Temple University in Philadelphia, where they have offered survey, specialized lecture and writing-intensive courses. 

Additionally, they work at The Barnes Foundation as an art educator in the galleries. 

Contact
lilscott@uarts.edu
215-717-6835