Katherine Guinness

Katherine Guinness is a theorist and historian of contemporary art and visual culture. She is the author of Schizogenesis: The Art of Rosemarie Trockel (Minnesota, 2019), the co-author of The Influencer Factory: A Marxist Theory of Corporate Personhood on YouTube (Stanford, 2024). Katherine has taught in a wide range of departments and programs across the globe, including the University of Sydney (in their Digital Cultures program), the University of New South Wales (where she taught Architectural History within their school of the Built Environment), North Carolina State University (Women’s and Gender Studies programs), and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Art History). Her research spans a variety of topics within visual culture, all of which she approaches with a Marxist-feminist lens.