- Awarded the title of Emeritus Professor in 2024
- Recipient of the Distinguished Feminist Scholar Award, CAA 2023
- Appointed Lecturer in Art History, 1998; Reader from 2000, Professor from 2008
- Director of the School of the Arts, 2005 -11
- Associate Dean, School of the Arts, English and Drama, 2014 – 2017
- Director, Institute of Advanced Studies, 2018 – 2024
- Professorial Fellow, Stockholm University, 2023
- International Visiting Fellow University of Cape Town, South Africa, 2015
- Visiting Professor, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2011
- Senior Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, 2002
- Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, National Gallery of Art, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington DC, 2001
- AHRC Research Leave Award, 2001-2
- Series Editor, Rethinking Art’s Histories, Manchester University Press, from 2008
- Series Editor, Drawing In, Bloomsbury, from 2014
- Editorial Board, Art History, 2017 - 2024
- Senior Fellow, Higher Education Academy, from 2018
- Fellow, Royal Society of the Arts, from 2017
Marsha Meskimmon is Professor Emerita of Transnational Art and Feminisms at Loughborough University (UK). Her research creates dialogues between globality, planetarity and the arts by drawing together decolonial, ecocritical feminisms and vital materialist aesthetics. In addition to publishing books and articles, Meskimmon has curated exhibitions, and participated in interdisciplinary research projects and practice-led artistic collaborations.
Marsha's Meskimmon's current project is a Trilogy, Transnational Feminism and the Arts, published by Routledge. Two volumes have been published: Transnational Feminisms, Transversal Politics and Art: Entanglements and Intersections (2020) and Transnational Feminisms and Art’s Transhemispheric Histories: Ecologies and Genealogies (2023). The final volume is in progress: Transnational Feminisms, Planetary Aesthetics and Nonviolence: Resonance and Riffing.
Earlier publications include the authored volumes, The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century (1996), We Weren't Modern Enough: Women Artists and the Limits of German Modernism (1999), Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics (2003), Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination (2010), and Drawing Difference: Connections between Gender and Drawing (co-authored with Phil Sawdon, 2016). Co-edited anthologies include Visions of the Neue Frau: Women and the Visual Arts in Weimar Germany (with Shearer West, 1995), Breaking the Disciplines: Reconceptions in Knowledge, Art and Culture (with Martin L Davies, 2003), Women, the Arts and Globalisation: Eccentric Experience (with Dorothy Rowe, 2013), Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies (with Marion Arnold, 2016) and Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration (with Maria Photiou, 2021).
In addition to books and articles, she has been involved with various curatorial projects, including: Domesticity and Dissent: The Role of Women Artists in the Weimar Republic (Leicester, 1992), City Limits (Stoke-on-Trent, 1997), Materialisations (NYC, 1999, with Åsa Andersson and Esther Sayers), and the international ‘feminist blockbuster’ curated by Connie Butler, WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution (LA MOCA, et.al., 2007). More recently, Meskimmon contributed essays for Empowerment: Art and Feminism (Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, 2022) curated by Andreas Beitin, Katharina Koch and Uta Ruhkamp, and Radical! Women Artists and Modernism, 1910-1950 (2024-5, Arnhem, Saarbrucken and Vienna). With Jane Chin Davidson, Rachael Grew and Alpesh Patel, she is co-editing a Special Issue of Art Journal.
- 2023 Transnational Feminisms and Art’s Transhemispheric Histories: Entanglements and Intersections, London and NY: Routledge. Vol. 2 of the Trilogy Transnational Feminisms and The Arts.
- 2021 Art, Borders and Belonging: On Home and Migration co-edited with Maria Photiou, London: Bloomsbury
- 2020 Transnational Feminisms, Transversal Politics and Art: Entanglements and Intersections, London and NY: Routledge. Vol. 1 of the Trilogy Transnational Feminisms and The Arts.
- 2016 Drawing Difference: Connections Between Gender and Drawing, co-authored with Phil Sawdon, London: Bloomsbury
- 2016 Home/Land: Women, Citizenship, Photographies, co-edited with Marion Arnold, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
- 2013 Women, the Arts and Globalization: Eccentric Experience, co-edited with Dorothy Rowe, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
- 2010 Contemporary Art and the Cosmopolitan Imagination, London and NY: Routledge.
- 2003 Women Making Art: History, Subjectivity, Aesthetics, London and NY: Routledge.