Biography
Diane O'Donoghue is the Director of the Program for Public Humanities and Senior Fellow for the Humanities at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts. She has been the Visiting Professor of Public Humanities at Brown University (2018-2023), and a Visiting Fellow at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard for the 2023-2024 academic year. A scholar member and faculty of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, she chairs their Division of Interdisciplinary Studies and directs the Ecker Fellows Program. An art historian, she has chaired the Department of Visual and Critical Studies (now Visual and Material Studies) at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, and since joining Tisch College in 2015 her scholarship and public-facing projects frequently intersect.