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Rachel Epp Buller (1974- ), born in Lincoln, Nebraska, is a US-based art historian, visual artist, author, professor, and curator. She has contributed significantly to the study of feminist art and the maternal through her scholarly, curatorial, and artistic research and practice. In addition to releasing three books, Buller is widely published in top journals, edited collections, and catalogues.

Buller is the daughter of Dianne Waltner Epp (1939-  ), retired chemistry teacher, and Anthony R. Epp (1941-2011), Professor of French and German, Nebraska Wesleyan University. She married Timothy Buller in 1995 and they have three children.

Education and career
Buller holds Bachelor’s degrees in studio art, history, and German from Bethel College (1996). As an undergraduate, she spent a semester at Philipps-Universität in Marburg, Germany (1995).

She earned an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute, University of Plymouth (2016), and completed an MA in Art History at University of Kansas (1999). During graduate school Buller worked at the Spencer Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Buller's PhD dissertation in Art History, titled Fractured Identities: Photomontage Production by Women in the Weimar Republic (2004), focuses on the work of Hannah Höch (1889-1978), Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), and Alice Lex-Nerlinger (1893-1975).

She is a Professor of Art History and Studio Art at Bethel College (DATE- ), and is a certified practitioner of Deep Listening (2020) through Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

In 2011 Buller took part in a Fulbright research fellowship to Berlin, working at the Archives of the Akademie der Kuenste,  and in 2022 was a Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Arts and Humanities at the University of Alberta.

Books
In 2012, Buller published Reconciling Art and Mothering, a groundbreaking edited volume that puts the voices and scholarship of art historians and artists from six continents into dialogue on a then-scarcely studied topic –- the maternal in art. The book was published by Ashgate (2012), reprinted in paperback by Routledge (2016), and is a touchstone for scholarship on this increasingly popular topic.

In 2013, she published two edited volumes, Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding, and Mothering Mennonite, co-edited with Kerry Fast. Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity (2019, co-edited with Charles Reeve), surveys the state of the fast-shifting field of maternal art, following on the heels of her first collection.

Book sections

 * New Maternalisms Redux (2018, ed. Natalie Loveless)
 * The Maternal in Creative Work: Intergenerational Discussions on Motherhood and Art (2019, eds. Elena Marchevska and Valerie Walkerdine)
 * Natal Signs: Cultural Representations of Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting (2015, ed. Nadya Burton)
 * Academic Motherhood in a Post-Second Wave Context (2012, eds. Andrea O’Reilly and Lynn Hallstein)
 * Performing Maternities: During and After Covid 19 (2022, eds. Kate Aughterson and Jessica Moriarty)

Academic journals

 * n.paradoxa: international journal of feminist art
 * Studies in the Maternal
 * Woman’s Art Journal
 * Journal on the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement

Reviews
'Inappropriate Bodies: Art, Design, and Maternity'', ed. with Charles Reeve. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2019.'''
 * Review by Ksenya Gurshtein, “The Central, Yet Invisible, Labor of Motherhood in Art,” Hyperallergic, May 8, 2020. https://hyperallergic.com/562684/inappropriate-bodies-art-design-and-maternity/
 * Review by Chrissy LaMaster for Cultural ReProducers. May 9, 2020. https://www.culturalreproducers.org/2020/05/inappropriate-bodies-art-design-and.html
 * Review by Laura Dennis in Mom Egg Review: Literature and Art Journal, May 13, 2020. http://momeggreview.com/2020/05/13/inappropriate-bodies-art-design-maternity-edited-by-rachel-epp-buller-and-charles-reeve/
 * Review by Laurie Paravati Phillips in Literary Mama, July 2020. https://literarymama.com/articles/departments/2020/07/review-of-inappropriate-bodies-art-design-and-maternity
 * Review by Kim Rondeau in RACAR: revue d’art canadienne / Canadian art review, vol. 45, no.2 (2020): 170-172. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/racar/1900-v1-n1-racar05734/1073958ar.pdf

'Reconciling Art and Mothering'', ed. Surrey, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2012; reissued in paperback by Routledge, 2016.'''
 * Review by K. Rhodes in Scholar’s Choice, vol. 50, no.9 (May 2013): np.
 * Review by Elizabeth Darocha Berenz, Art Libraries Society of North America Journal, (2013): np.
 * Review by Joanne Heath, Art Journal, vol. 72, no.4 (Winter 2013): 84-86.
 * Review by Niku Kashef, Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 35, no.2 (Fall/Winter 2014): 53-55.
 * Review by Miriam Schaer, Studies in the Maternal, vol. 9, no.1 (2017): 10. http://doi.org/10.16995/sim.242

'Mothering Mennonite'', ed. with Kerry Fast. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2013.'''
 * Review by Hannah Heinzekehr, The Femonite blog, August 19, 2013: http://www.femonite.com/2013/08/19/book-review-mothering-mennonite/
 * Review by Joanna Shenk, MCUSA Women in Leadership, September 16, 2013: http://www.mennoniteusa.org/2013/09/16/mothering-mennonite-a-book-review/
 * Review by Cindy Wallace, Mennonite Church USA, September 16, 2013: http://www.mennoniteusa.org/mothering-mennonite-a-book-review-2/
 * Review by Valerie Weaver-Zercher, Mennonite World Review, October 14, 2013: http://www.mennoworld.org/archived/2013/10/14/mothers-ideal-and-otherwise/?print=1
 * Review by Susie Guenther Loewen, Canadian Mennonite, February 26, 2014: http://www.canadianmennonite.org/articles/mothers-carriers-culture-and-faith
 * Review by Kimberly Schmidt, Mennonite Life, vol. 68 (Summer 2014): http://archive.bethelks.edu/ml/issue/vol-68/article/review-of-kerry-fast-and-rachel-epp-buller-eds-mot/
 * Review by Di Brandt, Direction, vol. 43, no.1 (Spring 2014): 122-27.
 * Review by Elsie Rempel, Faith Bytes blog, January 22, 2014: http://elsiehannahruth.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/mothering-mennonite-book-review/
 * Review by Joanne Epp, Rhubarb Magazine, 36 (Fall 2014): 37-38.
 * Review by Ann Hostetler, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvment, vol.5, no.2 (Fall/Winter 2014): 200-202.
 * Review by Gayle Gerber Koontz, Conrad Grebel Review, vol. 32, no.3 (Fall 2014): 306-308.
 * Review by Dorolen Wolfs, Journal of the Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia, 2015, http://www.mhsbc.com/bookreviews/mothering_mennonite.pdf
 * Review by Heather Belnap Jensen, Studies in the Maternal, vol.8, no.1 (May 2016): 9. http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/articles/10.16995/sim.209/

'Have Milk, Will Travel: Adventures in Breastfeeding'', ed. Toronto: Demeter Press, 2013.'''
 * Review by Camille-Yvette Welsch, Literary Mama, October 28, 2013: http://www.literarymama.com/reviews/archives/2013/10/a-review-of-have-milk-will-travel-adventures-in-breastfeeding.html
 * Review by Claire Lindstrom, Adventures of Lactating Girl, 25 July 2014, http://theadventuresoflactatinggirl.com/2014/07/25/finding-support-through-a-book/
 * Review by Berneil Rupp Mueller, Studies in the Maternal, vol. 6, no.1 (2014) http://www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk/documents/Mueller_SiM_6(1)2014.pdf
 * Review by Melanie Fraser, Journal of the Motherhood Initiative for Research and Community Involvement, vol.5, no.1 (Spring/Summer 2014): 334-35.