Dr Elizabeth A. Hodson is an anthropologist, researcher and writer. She lectures in the Fine Art Critical Studies department in the School of Fine Art and is the PhD Coordinator for the School of Design, at The Glasgow School of Art. She completed her PhD in Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in 2012, working with Professor Tim Ingold, focusing on drawing in contemporary Icelandic art. Her doctoral research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and The Royal Anthropological Institute. She also held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Aberdeen with the European Research Council project ‘Knowing From the Inside’ (2013-2018). Her research is concerned with the interstices between contemporary art practice, anthropology and art history. As a trained anthropologist with an ethnographic focus on art in Iceland and Scotland, she explores a range of topics including drawing, interdisciplinarity, alterity, the imagination and materiality. She writes journal articles as well as teaches, curates exhibitions, attends residences and conferences, and gives public lectures on her work and research interests. Her most recent published work has addressed ideas around skin and fur within contemporary performance art, and the role of water as zones and borders with the non-human. She is currently working on the themes of loss, absence and the figure of the ghost, and feminist and posthuman strategies of readdress. She regularly collaborates with artist Emily Joy, and is the founder of the On Feminism reading group with filmmaker and artist, Margaret Salmon. Recent presentations and publications of her work include: a book chapter titled ‘Mining the Animal’ in Practicing Landscape Field Guide No. 1: Landscape of Energy and Extraction (eds. S. Brind and M. Mersinis, 2024); a book chapter titled ‘Reflections on Joining’ in Queereal Secretions: Artistic Research as Exquiste Practice (eds. N. Coutts and H. Rogers, 2023); a paper titled ‘Symbiosis Through the Skin: Of Longing for Fur and Feather’ as part of the Animal Drag panel at the Association for Art History Conference (2023); co-convenor for a panel entitled ‘New Material Encounters - New Materials and New Materialism’ for the On Not Knowing – How Artists Teach Conference (2023); a paper titled ‘Affrug o’ the Sea’, at the Waterworlding: Reflections on Multiple Waters conference, University of Marburg (2020); an artist’s talk and storytelling circle for the project Land, Earth, Empathy with Emily Joy, Hardwick Gallery, University of Gloucestershire (2020); a paper titled ‘The Posthuman Sublime: The Art Practice of Katie Paterson’, at the Practising Landscape: Land, Histories and Transformation Symposium, the Glasgow School of Art (2020); panel convenor, for ‘Confluences of Art History and Anthropology’, at the Art, Materiality and Representation conference, British Museum (2018); paper ‘The Painter’s Discipline: Aesthetics and Form in Scottish Painting’, invited lecture for UCL’s Research Seminar for Material, Visual, and Digital Culture (2017). She has also curated a number of interdisciplinary exhibitions nationally and internationally including: ‘Class Matters’ (2024), Annex Gallery, GSA; ‘Queereal Secretions’ (2023), Annex Gallery, GSA; ‘Jaðarsýn’ (2010), at Kling og Bang Art Gallerí, Iceland; ‘Beyond Perception’ (2015), University of Aberdeen; ‘Drawing the Anthropological Imagination’ (2016), University of Durham.