Emily Poore

Emily Poore is undertaking a PhD in Art History at The University of Queensland (UQ), where she is investigating the therapeutic functions of Renaissance images of Christ’s wounds. In 2015 she completed her Bachelor of Arts (Art History) at UQ and received First Class Honours for her thesis ‘The Portable Pox: The Iconography of the French Disease in German Woodcuts (1496–1530)’. Emily has also worked in the museum sector; in 2015 she co-curated the exhibition Wunderkammer: The Strange and the Curious at The University of Queensland Art Museum, and worked as Curatorial Assistant on exhibitions including Peter Hennessey: Making it Real (2015) and Five Centuries of Melancholia (2014). Emily also has a Bachelor of Science (Medical Science) from Queensland University of Technology and has ten years’ experience as a laboratory scientist focusing on bacterial agents of disease