• Research

    Research Interests

    I am currently pursuing two main areas of research. My most recent work examines Nordic contemporary artists responding to histories of Nordic colonialism. Artists such as Marja Helander, Liselotte Wajstedt, Jeanette Ehlers, Jorma Puranen, and Mattias Olofsson all explore various facets of Indigeneity, whether derived from their own cultures and histories of colonialism or a version with which they are intimately familiar. Their art speaks to the merging of juxtapositions and a new worldview, often using forms of resistance against the dominant narratives and visualities in Nordic cultures.

     

    The second area of research focuses on controversial political monuments in Germany in the second half of twentieth-century, with a particular focus on the official memorials of the former G.D.R. How did unified Germany in the early 1990s struggle with sight of the Marxist-Leninist public monuments scattered across the eastern parts of Germany, especially in Berlin? Monuments to Karl Marx, Lenin, Thälmann, and border guards provoked the most violent language, at times resulting in acts of iconoclasm from both above and below. Participants in the iconoclasm were not merely seeking to destroy an image and eliminate it from public view. They were also forming new images, alternative visual suggestions and ways to articulate a viewpoint in public space.

    Select Publications

    “Disobedience in Sámi Artist Marja Helander's Film Birds in the Earth,Third Text 177, Vol. 36, no. 4 (2022): 295-310. https://doi.org/10.1080/09528822.2022.2074198

     

    “The Sámi in Two Nordic Art Projects: Mattias Olofsson’s Stor-Stina and Jorman Puranen’s Imaginary Homecoming,Konsthistorisk Tidsskrift/Journal of Art History, Vol. 91, no. 2 (2022): 95-115.

    https://doi.org/10.1080/00233609.2022.2037702

     

    Review of Narratives Unfolding: National Art Histories in an Unfinished World, edited by Martha Langford, Sehepunkte 18 (2018), No. 12.

    The review also appears in Kunstform 18 (2018), No. 12.

     

    “Monumental Attack: The Visual Tools of the German Counter-Monument in Two Works by Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz, and Horst Hoheisel,” Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture, Vol. 9 (2016): 122-139.

     

    “A Perfectly Nebulous Experiment: C.T.R. Wilson’s Cloud Chamber,” in Art, Technology and Nature, edited by Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam and Jacob Wamberg. London: Ashgate, 2015. Pp. 175-184.

     

    Review of Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin by Emily Pugh, Sehepunkte 15 (2015), No. 6.

    The review also appears in Kunstform 15 (2015), No. 6. 

     

    “Vittigheden som politisk våben” (Wit as a Political Weapon), Special Issue on Image Wars, Periskop – forum for kunsthistorisk debat 15 (2012): 98-123.

     

    “Reframing The Workers’ Militia Monument in Post-Unification Berlin,” Special Issue on 3D-Sculpture-Installation-Monuments, Passepartout 32 (2011): 229-247.

     

    Quid pro Quo: Assessing the Value of Berlin’s Thälmann Monument,” in Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture, edited by Elaine Kelly and Amy Wlodarski. Volume 74 of the German Monitor Series. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2011. Pp. 65-89.

     

    “What Ever Happened to Ernst Barlach? East German Political Monuments and the Art of Resistance,” in Totalitarian Art and Modernity, edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jacob Wamberg. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2010. Pp. 147-169.

     

    Review of “Theories of Memory: A Reader” edited by Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead, Ekfrase: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture 1 (2010): 72-73.

     

    “Politisk ikonoklasme og idolatri i den moderne visuelle kultur” (Political Iconoclasm and Idolatry in Contemporary Visual Culture), in Visuel kultur – viden, liv, politik, edited by Hans Dam Christensen and Helene Illeris. Copenhagen: Multivers, 2009. Pp. 329-348.

     

    Critics Roundtable Discussion: Mark B. N. Hansen, W. J. T. Mitchell, and Bernard Stiegler. “Media’s Critical Space.” Conversation with Kristine Nielsen, Jason Paul, and Lisa Zaher. Chicago Art Journal 16 (2006): 82-99.

     

    “Image.” The Keywords of Media Theory, Chicago School of Media Theory, 2003.

     

    Other Work in Progress

    October 2019, I participated in a three-day seminar, Teaching East German Culture: From the GDR to the Present, held at the annual German Studies Association conference, Portland, OR.

     

    I gave a talk at the 2018 German Studies Association in Pittsburgh, PA, on the panel Marx at 200 - Visual Culture After 1990, organized by the GDR and Socialism's Network. My paper “Spaces Unfolding: Deimantas Narkevičius’ The Head (2007)” examines the short film The Head (2007) by contemporary Lithuanian artist Deimantas Narkevičius. His film uses found footage to revisit the making of Lev Kerbel's Marx head for Karl-Marx-Stadt in 1971. Narkevičius edits the segments together to both naturalize and denaturalize the found film, originally made as propaganda for East German television. As a result of Narkevičius’ film editing, The Head documents not only the process of art making, but the manipulative staging of spaces. I argue that these spaces operate semantically and politically like the Fold.

     

    May 2019, I presented at the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, in Madison, WI. My paper explores the discipline of art history from the optics of Danish-Caribbean artist Jeannette Ehlers.

    Project Descriptions

    SMy article "Monumental Attack: The Visual Tools of the German Counter-Monument in Two Works by Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz and Horst Hoheisel" was published September 2016 in the journal Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. My paper argues that iconoclasm serves as the visual tool of choice for Jochen Gerz and Esther Shalev-Gerz in their Memorial Against Fascism (1986) and for Horst Hoheisel in his Negative Form (1987). The West German historians’ debate of the late 1980s established an image prohibition by framing the representation of the Holocaust as an unimaginable and sacred event. The Counter-Monuments rely on this ban on images. They attack monumentality and visibility as both fascist and capitalist characteristics, designated as such during the Cold War. The essay contends that the formal choices inherent in conceptualizing these two Counter-Monuments comprise familiar historical modes of iconoclasm. It ultimately questions the need to rely on iconoclasm in the Counter-Monuments as well as contemporary German memorialization of the Holocaust.

     

     

    My 2015 essay, "A Perfectly Nebulous Experiment: C.T.R. Wilson’s Cloud Chamber," explores the early projects of one of the significant contributors to the scientific understanding of cloud formation. C.T.R. Wilson was a meteorologist who discovered a means to render the path of electrons visible, thereby visually proving their material existence. Wilson’s aesthetic interests with the cloud chamber is examined in detail by the historian of science Peter Galison. When Galison questions why Wilson eventually purified the air in his chamber when dust is naturally present in the atmosphere, he concludes that Wilson’s goal had turned from imitating to dissecting nature. But from its very beginning, the achievements of Wilson’s cloud chamber reveal no clear distinction between what we might conceive as “matters of fact” and “matters of concern,"  or between the realms of science, art and metaphysics. I argue that Wilson’s earliest cloud chamber project sought to idealize the place he identified as home and recreate an exemplary nature from his experience on Ben Nevis, thus confirm his geocentric picture of the world. By reproducing local nature as perfectly pure, however, his early cloud chamber experiments relied on a metaphysically oriented scientific practice dominant before the mid-nineteenth century, one that had turned quite outmoded by the end of the century when Wilson was thinking through his project. This essay was presented at the international conference The Artwork between Technology and Nature, held at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen, in connection with the UN Climate Change conference. A peer-reviewed book anthology followed the conference, Art, Technology and Nature: Renaissance to Postmodernity in the series "Science and the Arts since 1750."

     

     

    My 2010 book chapter "What Ever Happened to Ernst Barlach? East German Political Monuments and the Art of Resistance" explores the ways in which western art history has rewritten East German art as an art of resistance after 1989. Using the examples of Fritz Cremer's Spain Fighter monument from 1968 and Sibylle Bergemann's photographs of the Marx and Engels Monument from 1984-86, the essay shows how Cremer's and Bergemann's citation of the art of Ernst Barlach suggests political interests that counter the narratives constructed by later exhibitions such as the "Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures," 2009-10, curated by Stephanie Barron of the LACMA and Eckhart Gillen of Kulturprojekte Berlin. Cremer and Bergemann suddenly become "dissident" East German artists, framing their projects as against the politics of the GDR and aligning them with a western narrative of resistance to the east. My essay concludes that "The goals of artists in the GDR were more compliant and sympathetic to various aspects of the politics in the GDR than current historiography tends to admit. The recent trend in the reception of East German art thus imposes a discursive form onto the visual arts which seeks to save artists for Western art history by placing them in the category of subversive GDR artists. The result is that the history of art of East Germany is being re-written as a history of and tribute to resistance." (p. 166)

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    Disobedience in Sámi Artist Marja Helander's Film Birds in the Earth

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    Art, Technology and Nature: Renaissance to Postmodernity

    Routledge, 2015

    A book anthology in the series Science and the Arts since 1750, edited by Camilla Skovbjerg Paldam and Jacob Warmberg, based on an International Conference held at the National Gallery of Denmark, focuses on the merging of art, nature, and technology. My chapter, "A Perfectly Nebulous Experiment: C.T.R. Wilson's Cloud Chamber," argues that Wilson's early scientific project was thoroughly mimetic in nature, based on his aesthetic and idiosyncratic worldview.

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    Periskop 15 (2012)

     

    This issue of the art history journal Periskop, thematizes image wars (billedstrid). My article, in Danish, "Wit as a Political Weapon," considers the ways that wit (satire, parody) serves as a verbal and visual tool at moments of political and aesthetic confrontation.

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    Art Outside the Lines: New Perspectives on GDR Art Culture

    Rodopi, 2011

    This book anthology, edited by Elaine Kelly and Amy Wlodarski, explores new research on the cultures of the GDR. My own chapter, "Quid pro Quo: Assessing the Value of the Thälmann Monument," argues for a new perspective on the GDR monument, seeing it as a participant in the social exchange of a gift given by the leadership and both accepted and rejected by its citizens.

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    Passepartout 32 (2011)

     

    An issue of the art history journal Passepartout concerned with the art history of three dimensionality: "3D/monumentskulpturobjektinstallation." My article, "Reframing the Workers' Militia Monument in Post-Unification Berlin," explores the artistic techniques of deconstruction, alienation, and detachment exercised on an unwanted monument, dismantled in Berlin after 1990.

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    Totalitarian Art and Modernity

    Aarhus University Press, 2010

    Edited by Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jacob Wamberg, this book anthology

    examines political art of past dictatorships often historically labeled 'totalitarian'. My chapter, “What Ever Happened to Ernst Barlach? East German Political Monuments and the Art of Resistance,” contends that current art historiography is in the process of reframing East German art, often questionably, as an art of resistance. The history of East German art is being rewritten as subversive art.

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    Visuel Kultur - viden, liv, politik

    Multivers, 2009

    This major anthology (Visual Culture - Knowledge, Life, Politics), edited by Hans Dam Christensen and Helene Illeris, investigates contemporary visual cultures. My chapter in Danish, "Political Iconoclasm and Idolatry in Contemporary Visual Culture," demonstrates how the two concepts of iconoclasm and idolatry remain thoroughly embedded in our contemporary world.

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    Images: A Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture

    Volume 9, no. 1 (2016)

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    Sehepunkte

    Volume 15, no. 6 (2015)

     

    Book Review of Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin by Emily Pugh, Sehepunkte 15 (2015), No. 6. The review also appears in Kunstform 15 (2015), No. 6.

     

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    Ekfrase: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture

    Volume 1 (2010): 72-73.

    Book Review in Danish of Theories of Memory: A Reader edited by Michael Rossington and Anne Whitehead.

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    Is Art History Global?

    Volume 3: The Art Seminar (2007)

    Translation of Hans Dam Christensen's “Which Art History?” in Is Art History Global? Volume 3 of The Art Seminar, edited by James Elkins. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 298-309.

  • Teaching

    Courses I have taught in recent years:

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    World Art after 1989

     

    The process of globalization since 1989 has radically shifted the focus away from the eurocentricity of a Western culture defined by North America and western Europe, and toward the so-called margins of culture, Africa, Asia, Oceania and South America. Moreover, the Internet, which emerged with financial support in the 1980s and 1990s, continues to provide new networking technologies and worldwide access to information, fundamentally changing our knowledge foundations. The collapse of the Wall in 1989 and the end of the Cold War brought about global transformations in institutions of power and finance, as well as greater proximity between the developing world and the West in terms of health and prosperity. These geographical, technological, socio-historical, and economic conditions have thoroughly changed the nature of contemporary art and graphic design.

     

    Thus, this seminar will examine the impact of globalization on the work of contemporary praxis. First and foremost, we will consider the pertinent theories and strategies emerging as part of a globalizing effect through the use of new media, concepts of place, postcolonialism’s impact on art, and the dissemination of images and language. We will look at numerous contemporary artists, active between 1989 and the present, and major world exhibitions and biennales. Our objective is to gain an awareness of the basis on which we conceptualize and appreciate contemporary art today in a global context:  Does the art’s location determine our response? Does globalization result in a culture of standardization or does it produce, instead, the fragmentation of multiple local cultures?

     

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    Iconoclasm and the Monstrous

     

    This seminar explores the destruction and production of art via the main theoretical issues at stake in the iconoclastic gesture, considering also why these issues might matter for us today. Cases explored will come from a range of historical eras and cultural regions—icons in Byzantium, the iconoclasm of the Protestant Reformation, colonial idolatry, European notions of African fetishism, Revolutions—French, Mexican, Post-communist—and their storming of pictures, the avant-garde, modern and contemporary art as iconoclasm. We will examine the ideas surrounding the crucial theological as well as secular terms pertinent to any study of iconoclasm and relate these to art and art history. The terms include idolatry, icon/idol, fetishism, censorship, aura, the other, im/materiality, transcendence, transubstantiation, as well as the monstrosity of images. Key questions framing the course material include: What are the psychological and social aspects at stake in breaking an image? Why is the problem of an image’s materiality and immateriality at the heart of iconoclasm? What role does the imagined ‘animate’ object perform? Why is iconoclasm impossible without an idolater? How do politics, ethics and justice play a part in attacks on art? When do critique, deconstruction and judgment become iconoclastic, and why is violence seemingly the preferred way to neutralize the monstrous idol? Students will write a substantial research paper based on individually developed and original research questions.

     

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    Visual Literacy

     

    Images are central to our life, but do we know how to critically read them? Being visually literate means understanding how visual content communicates effectively. This colloquium will explore the ways one can decode the underlying ideas of image producers and consider the nature of perception and visuality, our culturally and historically determined ways of seeing. The course will develop skills in writing and articulating the visual academically, including thinking of images as documents, visual evidence, and even as “arguments.” Students will gain knowledge in ascertaining how the visual serves aesthetic, cognitive, perceptual, and ideological purposes, through extensive writing about images and discussion on visual culture.

     

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    Cold War Art & Media Cultures

    The course explores the ideas and concerns of the cold war era, 1945-1992, through visual and media cultures. We will examine the visual arts of East and West, media theories, and cultural-political events across borders and in an international context. Topics include the politics of abstraction and figuration, television and suburbia, fashion and fear, utopian projects, revolution and protest, the 1955 Family of Man exhibit and the first western German Documenta exhibit of the same year, the Berlin Wall, official and unofficial Soviet art, and Eames’  multimedia architecture. How were cold war ideas, hopes, goals, fears, and concerns mediated into visible form?

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    Aesthetics and Politics

     

    The graduate seminar explores seminal texts by German social theorists and philosophers writing on art, media, mass culture and politics in the early twentieth century. Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, Herbert Marcuse and other left-wing intellectuals sought to put theories into practice with the aim of transforming society and liberating it from oppressive political systems. These theorists writing before, during and after the political turmoil of mid-20th century Europe created a significant social role for aesthetics. Their cross-disciplinary research involved all dimensions of culture, including literature, music, the visual arts, and mass media. In the 1920s and 30s, Kracauer and Benjamin examined photography, film, and the role of images in ways that linked the social focus of the Frankfurt School with the cultural focus of the Hamburg School (Warburg Institute). Marxist ideas on the role of art and its relationship to culture diverged into distinct avenues, especially in the late twentieth- and early twenty-first centuries. The seminar is primarily a reading course designed to familiarize us with some of the most important early texts. But it will also draw on later European theorists, such as Peter Bürger and Jacques Rancière, only tangentially drawing on the ideas of the Frankfurt School but fundamentally concerned with the politics of aesthetics.

     

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    History, Memory and Monuments in 20th Europe

     

    This seminar explores history and cultural memory through a focus on visual documents. Using monuments and memorials in modern Europe—primarily in France and Germany—as our key points of reference, the course investigates recent ideas about collective memory and cultural identity as they relate to cultural history. It will draw its primary examples from visual media (art, film, public statues) as well as politics, place and landscape, and consider also the counter-monument and the post-national, the destruction and preservation of monuments, the commemoration of war victims as well as the cinematic representations of the Holocaust. It will question how current and past memorials and other visual documents relate to the concept of memory, while investigating the stakes involved culturally, politically and ethically in these media in the service of official public remembrance and forgetting.

     

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    Global Contemporary Art

    Global Contemporary Art takes as its starting point art after World War II, during the era of the Cold War and processes of decolonization. Through critical essays, films, class lectures and discussion, the course will investigate postwar art’s conceptually and spatially expanding and contested arenas in the second half of the twentieth century. The course will focus thematically on the significance of gender, body, and subject positions in the art of the 1970s and 1980s, postmodern art appropriations, the cultural impact of the collapse of communism in 1989-90, institutional critiques in and of the art museum, the effect of transnationalism in a changing art world increasingly centered on the former peripheries of Asia, Africa, and South America and arguably further differentiated from modern art by technical transformations that question what constitutes an artistic medium.

     

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    Global Modern Art

    The course surveys major developments in global modernisms from the late nineteenth to the mid twentieth century in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Key topics include the artistic responses to two World Wars, European Imperialism and colonialism, the development of artistic trends and new technologies, the rise of avant-gardism and how postcolonial artists respond to European modernism by creating their own.

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    Art & Theory

    What does it mean to approach a work of art theoretically, and what form might such a theory take? What problems could arise in “speaking on behalf” of an art object? This Writing-Intensive and research-focused seminar introduces students to some of the major methodological approaches to the visual arts in the late twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These frameworks include social, semiotic, feminist, psychoanalytic, and post-structuralist theories, which often serve as the conceptual tools of contemporary artists, designers, industry specialists, curators and art historians. Students will write a major research paper and be responsible for short presentations.

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    Introduction to Art History

    Introduction to Art History seeks to develop skills in perception and comprehension when dealing with a variety of visual art forms. Students will explore the range of questions and methods appropriate to the explication of a given artwork and examine the intellectual structures basic to the systematic study of art. The course objective is to study select works of art in a global context and examine a chronology of historical eras and events. Through this study, the goal is develop an understanding of art as a visual language and effectively translate that understanding into verbal expression, both oral and written.

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    Nineteenth Century Art

    This course explores European art from 1750 to the turn of the century, focusing on artistic transformations in relation to the intellectual, scientific, industrial, social, and political revolutions of the time—that is, the key events in the formation and history of modern European art. How were ideas about romance, love, nation, nationalism, empire, colonialism, class, family, education, religion, country and city expressed in visual terms and artistic styles such as Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism, Realism and Impressionism, Symbolism and Primitivism? How did modernity materialize visually among artists such as David and Géricault, Cassatt and Cézanne, Carpeaux and Rodin? The objectives of the course are to provide an overview of European art from the Enlightenment to the Industrial age and to develop skills in description and interpretation, presentation, argument and writing.

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    Visual Cultures of 'Totalitarianism'

    This undergraduate seminar seeks to investigate "totalitarianism" as a contested term and understand its application in historical texts and current scholarship. Focusing on officially sanctioned visual cultural projects the course will explore theories of propaganda and dictatorship as they pertain to the cultures of the Third Reich and German Democratic Republic. It will stress the ways in which these two regimes, relying on the promise of technology and mass politics, used visual productions, art and media, as tools of seduction. The course takes its primary examples from painting, sculpture, architecture, posters, photography, and film, as well as collective experiences that emphasize presence, such as sports events, inaugural ceremonies for public monuments, speeches, marches, and art exhibitions. Course topics include the role of terror, the importance of a cult leader, the depiction of the male hero in Nazism and Stalinism, and the reception and resistance to these models. Key questions framing the course material concern, then, the idea of governing through images and society in toto: How did the regimes attempt to portray complete subservience to the system? What is the relationship between form and content in transmitting a controlled message? And, finally, how might we reframe the concept of totalitarianism today?

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    Editorial board member

    Ekfrase: Nordic Journal of Visual Culture is a leading scientific journal for studies of visual culture and aesthetic expression in the Nordic countries, presenting interdisciplinary research from visual and intermedial disciplines within the arts and media fields. It publishes articles in Danish, English, Norwegian, and Swedish. The target audience is researchers, teachers, and students within all aesthetic disciplines at Nordic places of study, specialist and research libraries, and other relevant institutions. The journal is owned by the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen and is published with financial support from the Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils, the Nordic Publishing Committee for Journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and the Nomadikon Project.

    Referee

    2009-present

    I serve regularly as a referee for journals and book anthologies, most recently for Sehepunkte and the International Journal of Islamic Architecture.

  • Academic positions

    Associate Professor of Art History

    2018-present

    Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

    Sabbatical, 2018-2019

    Assistant Professor of Art History

    2012-2018

    Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

    Tenure-track appointment in the Joyce Eichhorn Ames School of Art. I teach courses in modern and contemporary art, the senior seminar, introductory-level courses, and seminars in my areas of specialization. I was selected for the IWU Faculty Colloquium Speaker Series, 2015-16, and presented a chapter from my book manuscript, “Division and Unity: Cold War Memorials in East and West Berlin.” Fall 2014, I participated in the interdisciplinary symposium, organized by IWU's International Studies program and sponsored by a Re-Centering the Humanities Mellon grant, "The Freedom to Speak, Create and Dream."

     

    Mellon Humanities Fellow, 2015-1016

    Junior Faculty Leave, Spring 2015

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    Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities

    2010-2012

    Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH)

    University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois

    The position included an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures and the School of Art and Design. During my fellowship, I co-organized together with Dianne Harris and Christine Catanzarite, the interdisciplinary symposium, "Memory and the Visual," sponsored by the IPRH.

     

    In 2011, I received a grant from the Getty Research Institute and was a Fellow in the Stone Summer Theory Institute's workshop on Farewell to Visual Studies. The book is edited by James Elkins, Gustav Frank, and Sunil Manghani and based on the workshop.

  • Education

    Ph.D., Art History

    University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    2010

    Specialization in modern and contemporary art, with a minor in theory, criticism, and historiography

     

    Dissertation Title: “Gestures of Iconoclasm: East Berlin’s Political

    Monuments, from the Late German Democratic Republic to Postunified Berlin”

    Director: W. J. T. Mitchell. Readers: Darby English, Jaś Elsner, and Horst Bredekamp

    My dissertation research was supported by University of Chicago's Lipman Fellowship, two generous grants from the Visiting Committee on the Visual Arts, the Humanities Division Travel Grant and the Getty Research Institute.

     

    M.A., Art History

    University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

    2003

    With my interest in image studies and visual studies, and with W.J.T. Mitchell as my advisor, I explored what iconoclasm might mean in the visual cultural context of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. My graduate studies and travel were supported by the University of Chicago's Century Scholarship and University Grant, and a Kathleen J. Shelton Memorial Travel Fellowship.

    Cand.mag., Art History

    Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark

    2001

    Continuing my interest in the historiography of art history and visual studies, I wrote my cand.mag thesis on the ekphrastic approaches of the discipline, the re-presentation of images in a discursive framework, arguing for iterability as the necessary foundation of art history.

    Erasmus Programme Study Abroad

    Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

    2000

    Completed the course "Iconographia e iconologia" taught by Dr. Claudia Cierivia in the Department of Art History at 'Sapienza' and conducted independent research at various libraries and archives in Rome, including the Bibliotheca Hertziana. My main independent project focused on the urban landscape and Imperial art of ancient Rome. My research was generously supported by the Sokrates-Erasmus Foundation, two grants from the University of Copenhagen, and a grant from Knud Højgaards Fond.

    B.A., Art History, Linguistics

    Københavns Universitet, Copenhagen, Denmark

    1999

    My major in Art History with a minor in Linguistics led to an investigation of semiotics and poststructuralist thought, delving into theories of perception and visuality. I also developed a passion for the methods and historiography of art history.

  • Contact

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