Kris McGhee
Kris graduated from Saint Mary's College of California Magna Cum Laude with an emphasis on Art History and Theology & Religious Studies. Kris' primary areas of research focus on the roles of trauma, memory and historical constructions of truth in wartime imagery and German cultural production during the Interwar period. She also integrates her studies of religion into visual Theology, examining the relationships between seeing and the and how art affects worship in Christian imagery/architecture.
A Bay Area native, Kris has been an educator and sales liason for RH Contemporary Art, helped launch a local contemporary art agency and was a Gallery Attendant at The Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek. She also enjoys volunteering; previously with the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and the Seattle Art Museum. She recently joined Europeana Transcribe as a volunteer digital transcriber to decipher, transcribe and annotate handwritten stories from Europeana 1914-1918. Currently, Kris provides guest lectures for various Saint Mary's courses including Survey of Western Art History, Italian Civilization & Seeing Salvation: Visual Theology. The past two years Kris accompanied the SMC January Term travel course to Italy (Florence, Assisi, Ravenna, Orvieto & Rome) and France (Chartres, Bourges & Paris) where she gave tours at the world's leading museums including: the Bargello, Musee d'Orsay & the Louvre. She just completed six lectures at Saint Mary's for the Spring 2017 semester. Beginning September 2017, Kris will begin graduate studies with University College London in History of Art, Art Theory & Art Historiography. |
Publications & Conference Presentations
Fourth Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium 2013
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco
“Shadow Play: Social Commentary in German Expressionism during the Interwar Period”
Spectrum 2013
“Court Influence: How 18th Century Vienna Fueled One of Classical Music’s Greatest Rivalries”
Spectrum 2012
"Land of the Lost: Examining the Roles of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Government Social Services in the Social Readjustment of Vietnam Veterans”
DeYoung Museum, San Francisco
“Shadow Play: Social Commentary in German Expressionism during the Interwar Period”
Spectrum 2013
“Court Influence: How 18th Century Vienna Fueled One of Classical Music’s Greatest Rivalries”
Spectrum 2012
"Land of the Lost: Examining the Roles of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Government Social Services in the Social Readjustment of Vietnam Veterans”