Rachel Pollack

Rachel Pollack is a visiting professor in the University Writing Program and has taught courses for the Corcoran School of Arts and Design and The University Honors Program. She has a PhD in Art History from The University of Maryland where she specialized in Northern Baroque art with a subspecialty in Greco-Roman sculpture. Her research and courses include a variety of topics across the disciplines of art history, archaeology, classics and material culture. She is an honorary member of GW’s Delta Iota Gamma, a fraternal organization for students studying in the field of anthropology and classics. Most recently, she curated two micro exhibitions at The Textile Museum:  Embroidering The Crown (May 2023) and Garden of Love (February 2024). This research is featured in the Folger Shakespeare Library blog Shakespeare and Beyond, and further publications are forthcoming for The Textile Museum Journal.

Prof. Pollack is also a watercolor artist. Beginning in 2018, she participated in the art residency program at the Arte Studio Ginestrelle in Assisi and annually exhibits her work in Italy at Art Gallery Le Logge. As both an artist and an art historian, she encourages her students to reach across disciplinary boundaries and interpret art from their own perspective.