Tessel Bauduin

Tessel Bauduin (1980) is an interdisciplinary scholar of art and cultural studies. She received a BA in Art History in 2003 and an MA in Cultural Studies in 2004, both cum laude and from the University of Amsterdam. During this MA Tessel worked as a trainee at the Museum of Witchcraft, Cornwall, United Kingdom, on a Dutch collection of magical drawings and artefacts. In 2006 she graduated cum laude for the research-master of Art History, specializing in Art History of the Middle Ages, with a thesis on landscape in Carolingian portraits of evangelists. She has worked as a university teacher of Art History for two years. Currently Tessel is working on a PhD-dissertation concerning the relationship between early surrealism in Paris and western esotericism. In this interdisciplinary research project the focus will be on the relevance of esoteric sources for and relation to the so-called ‘surrealistic object’. In her spare time she gives courses in art history for adults. Another favourite pastime, besides work and visiting museums, galleries and art-fairs, is latin dancing; Tessel practises zouk, salsa and merengue, among other styles.


Photograph by Dennis Konijnenburg, www.denniskonijnenburg.nl

For more information see Tessel Bauduin's personal profile on academia.edu: http://uva.academia.edu/TesselBauduin