Rebecca Taylor FRSA is a cultural strategist, educator, researcher, and writer, with more than two decades of experience in the arts & culture sector, including leadership roles at MoMA PS1 and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA); The Getty; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA); and beyond.
Rebecca is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and a part-time lecturer in the Department of Arts & Humanities at Teachers College, Columbia University — the #1 Graduate School of Education in the U.S.
Academic Publications
Taylor, R. (Abstract accepted; full paper under review). Rethinking Deep Learning in Education: Toward Humanist Onto-Epistemologies in an Age of AI. Studies in Philosophy and Education. Special issue: Epistemic Implications of AI for Education.
Taylor, R. (in press; expected 2027). The Museum as Postdigital Learning Space: Re-presencing Through Works of Art. In: M. Savin-Baden and J. Ball (Eds.), Learning Everywhere: Repositioning Learning Spaces in a Postdigital World. Routledge.
Taylor, R. (in press; expected 2026). Teaching for Radical Hope: A Poetics of Education for a Time of Fear & Uncertainty. Journal of School and Society.
Taylor, R. (in press; expected 2026). Re-presencing: Aesthetic Education of the Soul in the spirit of James, Dewey, and Greene. Journal of Aesthetic Education.
Taylor, R. (in press, expected 2026). Re-presencing: Ritualized Aesthetic Experience for Meaning-Making & Growth Amidst Perpetual Crises. In: E. Bianchi and Z. Wang (Eds), Contemporary Issues in Aesthetics. Special Issue: Rethinking Emergency Through Aesthetics and Arts. De Gruyter-Brill.
Taylor, R. (in press; expected 2026). Attracting and Engaging Teens: Lessons from Research and Practice. Journal of Museum Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/10598650.2026.2614267
Taylor, R. (2025). Re-presencing: A Pedagogical Framework for Ritualized Engagement with Art Grounded in Deweyan Experience. Education and Culture 41(1), 62-91. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/978527.
Taylor, R., & Ball, J. (2022). Re-presencing Through Artistic Reverie: Implications for Postdigital Theology. In Postdigital Theologies (pp. 233-248). Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-09405-7
Additional Writings
Taylor, R. (2022). You are what you see. Recalibrating (or as I prefer to call it, Re-presencing) through art. aJAR, February 21. https://ajar.substack.com/p/you-are-what-you-see
Taylor, R. (2015). Marina Abramovic, The Artist is Present. Smarthistory, August 9. https://smarthistory.org/marina-abramovic-the-artist-is-present/.
Taylor, R. (2015). Anselm Kiefer, Shulamite. Smarthistory, August 9.
https://smarthistory.org/anselm-kiefer-shulamite/.
Taylor, R. (2010). Christian Marclay Conquers Times. The Huffington Post, 28 October.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/christian-marclay-conquer_b_774451
Taylor, R. (2010). Spiral Jetty: A Monument to Paradox & Transience. The Huffington Post, 28 September. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spiral-jetty-a-monument-t_b_741301
Additional Writings
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