The Department of Art History is excited to welcome the newest member of our faculty, Dr. Hayley O'Malley, Assistant Professor of Art History, to Rice!
Dr. O’Malley will be teaching two courses in the fall: CMST 202: History of Cinema & Media II and the new seminar HART 677: Film History Now (upper level undergraduates may enroll in this course with instructor permission).
Previously serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Cinematic Arts and an affiliated faculty member in the Department of English at the University of Iowa, Dr. O’Malley is a film and literary historian, and her interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on African American film and literature, feminist thought, and political activism through the arts, with a particular emphasis on Black women’s writing and filmmaking since the 1960s. She is also interested in the history and practice of the public humanities, and she regularly curates public programming and film series at universities, film centers, and museums.
Professor O’Malley was recently named a 2024-25 scholar-in-residence at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York City.
Before heading to Iowa, she was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow with the Black Arts Archive Sawyer Seminar at Northwestern University, and she earned a PhD in English, with a certificate in African American and Diasporic Studies, from the University of Michigan.