Gallery Talk: Dr. Andrea O’Reilly on Motherhood and Elinor Carucci | Hannah Altman
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Thursday July 17 | 6:30 - 7:30 PM
Dr. Andrea O’Reilly, full professor in the School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies York University, shares her responses to the exhibition Elinor Carucci | Hannah Altman. As an expert about motherhood, O’Reilly brings keen insights about Carucci – a daughter and a mother – who has been photographing her family since the age of 15, and her children from their birth to the present.
O’Reilly is internationally recognized as the founder of Motherhood Studies (2006) and its subfield Maternal Theory (2007), and creator of Matricentric Feminism, a feminism for and about mothers (2016) and Matricritics, a literary theory and practice for a reading of mother-focused texts (2021). She is founder/editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Motherhood Initiative and publisher of Demeter Press, as well as co-editor/editor of thirty plus books on many motherhood topics, most recently in 2024 The Mother Wave: Theorizing, Enacting, and Representing Matricentric Feminism and The Missing Mother and in 2025 Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity. She is author of three monographs including a collection of essays, In (M)otherwords; Writings on Mothering and Motherhood, 2009-2024 (2024). She has received more than 1.5 million dollars in funding for her research projects. And she is twice the recipient of York University’s Professor of the Year Award for teaching excellence.
