Gerta Moray has spent more than two decades tracing Emily Carr's career and her relationship with the First Nations of British Columbia. Her publications include a major award-winning study, Unsettling Encounters: First Nations Imagery in the Art of Emily Carr (2006), and Harold Town: Life and Work (Art Canada Institute, 2014), as well as numerous articles in journals, monographs, and exhibition catalogues. She is Professor Emerita at the University of Guelph and holds an MA from Oxford University, a Postgraduate Diploma from the Courtauld Institute, London, and a PhD from the University of Toronto.