Carine Chelhot Lemyre is a writer and historian of visual culture based in Beirut, Lebanon, with a PhD in Art History from the University of St Andrews (2023). Lemyre studies were supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (CCSF), as well as several travel grants from the Society for the Study of French History (SSFH) and the Society for French Studies (SSFH), amongst others. She holds a BA in Studio Art with a minor in Philosophy from the American University of Beirut (2016), and an MA in Art History from the University of Toronto, which was supported by the W. Bernard Herman Scholarship in Art (2017).

Her doctoral research explored the works and visual technologies employed by the nineteenth-century photography studio, La Maison Bonfils (1867-1914), based in Beirut, Lebanon and established by the French photographer Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) and his wife Marie-Lydie Cabanis (1837-1918). Her broader research interests include visual materials such as photography and painting and their manifestation through the relationships between travel, commerce, and colonialism in the Ottoman Empire during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 

Currently, she is teaching at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in Beirut and working on a retrospective monograph on the Lebanese artist Jamil Molaeb (b. 1948) which is set to be published by Kaph Books in the Fall of 2024.