Leisa Rundquist specializes in modern and contemporary art and theory. Among her publications are The Power and Fluidity of Girlhood in Henry Darger’s Art (2021) and “Valorizing Gee’s Bend Quilts: Affinity, Adjacency, and the Modern Eye” in A Companion to Textile Culture (co-authored 2021). Rundquist has published essays, curated exhibitions, lectured, and offered courses on self-taught and vernacular art, modern and contemporary visual culture, and museum studies. Her recent exhibitions include Betwixt and Between: Henry Darger’s Vivian Girls (2017) and the 2021 co-curated series Henry Darger: The Room Revealed, at Intuit, Chicago. Rundquist was the recipient of the 2013 Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities Award.
Education
PhD, Modern and Contemporary Art, UNC Chapel Hill
MA, American Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
BFA, Art History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
