Dr 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), which was awarded the 2020 Art Association of Australia and NZ Best Anthology Book Prize. Her recent research has been published in Photography and Culture, Photographies, and Passagen des Exils: Exilforschung:Ein internationales Jahrbuch. Brett is a recipient of the 2017 Australian Academy of the Humanities, Ernst and Rosemarie Keller Award, Research Leader for the Photographic Cultures Research Group, and Editorial Member for the Visual Culture and German Contexts Series, Bloomsbury.
