Astrid Schmetterling

Astrid Schmetterling, born in Durban in 1962, is an art historian and author. Having grown up in Germany, she studied art history and literature in Jerusalem and London and was a Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London until 2026. Her writing focuses on the relation between history, culture, and memory, and is informed by the insights of diaspora, postcolonial and transcultural memory studies. She is co-chair of the Memory and Arts Working Group of the Memory Studies Association (MSA).