Tiffany Floyd is a lecturer of modern and contemporary art at the University of North Texas. She received her PhD in art history from Columbia University with a dissertation centred on understanding the relationship between Iraqi modern art and its rich, antique past. Her dissertation was a co-winner of the 2022 Middle Eastern Studies Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award.
Tiffany’s research interests include the politics of archaeology and time, petromodernity, postcolonial theory, modes of affective reception and the destruction and preservation of Iraq’s cultural heritage. She has participated in several field projects, including the Modern Art Iraq Archive (2010-2011) and the Getty-funded Mapping Art Histories in the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (2020-2023). Her forthcoming publication, entitled Absence and Ruin in Hanaa Malallah’s The God Marduk, is an object biography that contextualises Iraqi artist Hanaa Malallah’s art book The God Marduk (2008).
