Rebecca Hanna John is a Berlin-based art historian and author invested in transnational perspectives on art. She studied art history, literature and media studies at the University of Konstanz, University Paris Diderot, Humboldt University of Berlin, as well as at the School of Arts and Aesthetics of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. In 2019, she joined the DFG-funded graduate program “Cultures of Critique” at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, with a PhD project on archival critique and transnational memory work in the artistic practices of Akram Zaatari, Jumana Manna, and Farah Saleh. In this context, she organized several academic workshops and co-edited the anthology On Withdrawal: Scenes of Refusal, Disappearance and Resilience in Art and Cultural Practices (Diaphanes 2023) as well as the illustrated zine Dr. Anxiety or What Haunts You Tonight (together with Nele Wulff and Ulrike Jordan). In 2024, she was a guest lecturer at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, where she taught a seminar on archives and their critique in art since 1990. Her writing has been published in several books, journals, museum blogs, and exhibition catalogues, such as Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaften 31 (September 2024), On Withdrawal (Diaphanes 2023), Why Art Criticism? A Reader (Hatje Cantz 2022), Schirn MAG (December 2022), roots§routes (July 2020), and Sirene (Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt 2020). She is a member of the working group Kunstproduktion und Kunsttheorie im Zeichen Globaler Migration at Ulmer Verein für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften e.V., which investigates art production and art theory in the context of global migration.