Graduate Student Profile

Emma Oslé is an advanced Ph.D. Candidate in Art History at Rutgers University—New Brunswick, and the 2024-2025 Terra Foundation for American Art Predoctoral Fellow and Big Ten Academic Alliance Smithsonian Fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. Her research has received support from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Terra Foundation, and the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), among others. Her writing has appeared in catalog publications, the Woman’s Art Journal, Rutgers Art Review, and in the NYU Latinx Project’s digital journal, Intervenxions. Oslé’s dissertation, “The Space In-Between: Latinx Art and the Maternal,” provides an entryway to conceptualizing contemporary Latinx art through the central role of family. Addressing how artists utilize motherhood as a discursive springboard, the project argues that Latinx artists treat maternity as a deeply fluid zone, enabling them to oscillate between culture, nation, self, and other.