Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the AHRB Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (a co-sponsor of this event) at the University of Leeds. Over twenty-five years she has developed 'feminist interventions in art's histories' challenging and 'differencing' canons of knowledge and representation. Co-author of Old Mistresses; Women, Art and Ideology (1981) and Avant-Gardes and Partisans Reviewed (1996), recent publications include Generations and Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings (1996), Mary Cassatt; Painter of Modern Women (1998) Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art's Histories (1999) and Looking Back to the Future: Essays on Art, Life and Death (2000). Her forthcoming books are Towards the Virtual Feminist Museum, and The Theatre of Memory or Autobiography as Allo-biography: Leben oder Theater 1940-42 by Charlotte Salomon. Born in South Africa, she became a Canadian citizen when she lived in Quebec and Toronto. She now lives and works in Britain.