Elise Dupré (°1993) is a PhD candidate and teaching assistant at the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies at Ghent University.
She is currently working on a PhD project on the use of photographic reproductions of artworks and visual strategies in art books published between 1945 and 1985. She has written for De Witte Raaf and other magazines and was recently awarded the Getty Research Library Grant for her research on Ludwig Goldscheider. In addition to her doctoral research, Dupré assists with courses on modern and contemporary art, photographic reproductions, heritage, architectural theory, and architectural history and teaches several courses on academic writing.
Dupré holds a bachelor's degree in graphic design from LUCA School of the Arts and a bachelor's and master's degree in art history from Ghent University. Prior to pursuing her doctoral studies, Dupré completed a graduate program that focused on land art at the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University (2018) and has worked at various cultural institutions such as VRT, MER. Paper Kunsthalle and ZUT ALORS! Inc New York. She is a guest critic on the radio program Pompidou (Klara VRT) and reviews exhibitions on photography and contemporary and modern art.