Rate My Professor Chari Larsson

Larsson's academic research centers on theories of images and representation, twentieth-century French intellectual history, philosophical approaches to spectatorship, trauma studies, photography and war, biography, life-writing, and visual life narratives during periods of war and conflict. Her current research project investigates visual life narratives amid conflict. She is the author of the monograph Didi-Huberman and the Image (Manchester University Press, 2020), the first extensive English-language study of Didi-Huberman's research on images, which was supported by the Australian Academy of the Humanities Publication Subsidy Scheme. Other key publications include the book chapter "Quiet Trauma and the War in Ukraine" in Psychosocial and Cultural Perspectives on the War in Ukraine (2024); "Scandal in the museum: a symptomatic response" in Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society (2022); "Didi-Huberman and art history's amicable incursions" in the Journal of Art Historiography (2020); "Against a Melancholic Art History: The Afterlife of Images" in The Persistence of Melancholia in Arts and Culture (2019); "Making Monsters in László Nemes’ Son of Saul" in Senses of Cinema (2016); and "And the Word Becomes Flesh: Georges Didi-Huberman’s Symptom in the Image" in emaj: issue 8 (2015). Larsson has contributed 17 articles to The Conversation on topics ranging from iconic war images like 'Accidental Napalm' to contemporary art exhibitions. She has delivered public lectures, including "Diaries of War and Life" in 2024, and participated in collaborative research funded by the British Academy. Her scholarship advances critical engagements with images in art history and cultural theory.