Donna West Brett

Donna West Brett is an Associate Professor and Chair of Art History at the University of Sydney. She is author of Photography and Place: Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 (Routledge, 2016); and co-editor with Natalya Lusty, Photography and Ontology: Unsettling Images (Routledge, 2019) and co-editor with Deborah Ascher Barnstone, Modernist Aesthetics in Transition: Visual Culture in the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany (Bloomsbury, 2024). Brett is a recipient of an Australian Academy of the Humanities, Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award, 2017; Research Leader for the Photographic Cultures Research Group; Editorial Member for the Visual Culture and German Contexts Series, Bloomsbury; and a Sloan Fellow in Photography, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, 2024.