Emily Doucet

Emily Doucet is a writer, editor, and historian of photography and visual culture, based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She runs Framing Devices, offering developmental editing services for academic writers in the humanities. From June to September 2024, she will be a CCA-WRI research fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. After receiving a PhD in Art History from the University of Toronto in 2020, she held postdoctoral fellowships in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University (2022-2023), the Institute of Advanced Study in the Humanities in Essen, Germany (2021), and at The Image Centre at Toronto Metropolitan University (2021). She has taught undergraduate courses in art history at the University of Toronto and McGill University.

Her research and writing consider the history and visual culture of media technologies, with a focus on photography. She writes on historical and contemporary culture for both academic and wider audiences regularly, publishing essays, interviews, and reviews for a variety of publications including BlackFlash, Border Crossings, C Magazine, Canadian Art, Communication + 1, Grey Room, Lady Science, and Public Parking, and for arts organizations such as the Blackwood Gallery, Circuit Gallery, Fonderie Darling, Gallery 1C03, and Truck Contemporary.

Her research has been funded by the Association for Art History, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Centre for the Studies of France and the Francophone World (University of Toronto), the Eccles Centre for American Studies (British Library), the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, the Manitoba Arts Council, the Northrop Frye Centre (Victoria College), the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Image Centre.

She is on the board of directors and editorial committee of BlackFlash magazine and is a co-organizer of the Public Writing in the Humanities working group sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Center at the University of Toronto.

For more about my work as an academic developmental editor or to work with me, see my editorial website here.