Birgit Haehnel received in 2004 her Ph.D. from the University of Trier, 2004. She lives as an independent scholar of art history in Vienna. She is the author of Regelwerk und Umgestaltung. Der Nomadismusdiskurs in der Kunst nach 1945 (2007). She has published extensively on contemporary art and on art of the 17th, 19th and 20th centuries with a special focus on gender and post-colonialism.
