Hannah Feldman

Associate Professor Department of Art History

Northwestern University

1800 Sherman Avenue, Suite 4400 Evanston, IL 60208

h-feldman@northwestern.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Major Research Interests

Art and visual culture of the 20th and 21st centuries, especially art and urban space post-1945; art and war, especially theories and cultures of decolonization and postcolonial conflict with a regional focus on

Middle East and North Africa; the public sphere and its institutions; photography and theories of

representation.

Education Columbia University, Ph.D., Art History and Archaeology, 2004, with distinction

Dissertation: “National Negotiations: Art, Historical Experience, and the Public in Paris, 1945- 1962” (Advisors: Benjamin H. D. Buchloh and Rosalind Krauss)

Columbia University, M.Phil., Art History and Archaeology, 1997, with distinction

Columbia University, M.A., Art History, 1995 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Critical Studies, 1992-1993

Harvard University, A.B., summa cum laude in concentration, magna cum laude, 1992

Awards, Honors and Fellowships

Post-doctoral Recognitions and Research Support

Andrew W. Mellon New Directions Fellowship, 2015-2017 Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Visiting Scholar, 2014 (Spring/Summer)

Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Institute Affiliate Program, 2011-

2012; 2013-2014 Getty Research Institute Residential Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2008-2009

University Research Grant, Northwestern University, 2008-2009

Residential College Faculty Research Assistant Fellowship, Northwestern University, 2006-2008; 2009-2010

Fulbright Visiting Specialist Program: Direct Contact with the Muslim World (Institutional; author and principal investigator), 2006

Pre-doctoral Recognitions and Fellowships

Departmental Dissertation Fellowship, Art History, Columbia University, 2002-2003

Samuel H. Kress Foundation 2-year Fellowship in Art History (Paris), 2000-2002 Bourse Chateaubriand, Ambassade de France aux États-Unis, 1999-2000

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Marandon Dissertation Fellowship, SPFFA, New York, 1999-2000

Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Columbia University, 1998-1999 Horst Frenz Prize for Best Graduate Student Paper, ACLA, 1997

Nelson Blitz Summer Research Fellowship, Columbia University, 1997

Presidential Fellowship, Columbia University, 1994-1998 Helena Rubinstein Fellowship, The Whitney Museum of American Art ISP, 1992-1993

University Employment

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

Associate Professor, Department of Art History, 2012-

Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2011- Core Faculty Member, Program in Middle East and North African Studies, 2013-

Core Faculty Member, Program in Comparative Literary Studies, 2011- Steering Committee, French Interdisciplinary Group, 2009-

Participating Faculty, PhD Program in Screen Cultures, 2005-

Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, 2006-2012 Core Faculty Member, Program in Comparative Literary Studies, 2011-2012

Affiliated Faculty, Middle East and North Africa Working Group, 2007-2012

Affiliated Faculty, Program in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 2007-2012 Affiliated Faculty, Graduate Interdisciplinary Cluster in Critical Theory, 2006-2011

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences College Fellow, 2005-2006

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, 2004-2005 Lecturer, School of Continuing Studies, 2002

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY

Visiting Lecturer, Department of Art History, 1997

Columbia University, New York, NY

Preceptor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, 1995-1997; 2000

Publications

Books In-Progress

‘Petite Planète’: Algiers and the Globalization of Urban Space

Taking its name and its methodological investment in the traveling circuits of cross-cultural

exposure from a series of books that the French filmmaker and artist Chris Marker edited in the

late 1960s and 1970s, this book-length study addresses the transversal patterns of aesthetic, ideological, and economic influence that animated art and urban practice in the wake of the

internationally celebrated anti-colonial campaigns waged in Africa and Asia throughout the early 1960s. Focusing specifically on the afterlives of the Algerian War of Independence from

the mid-1960s through the present, the study is split in two parts. It begins with an examination

of the cultural platforms, institutional networks, and urban development schema that were cultivated by both local and foreign interests to commemorate the war in situ. The second half

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of the book considers the impact that these ideologically and formally hybrid developments had

on local, diasporic, and international art practices, which circulate across a network of pan-Arab, pan-African, and pan-Socialist alliance (expected completion date: 2019).

The History of the Future: Visual Public Spheres and Arts Institutions in the Middle Eastern City, 2001-2011

This book-length study examines several artist-developed and overseen arts institutions in four

North African and Middle Eastern cities (Tangier, Algiers, Beirut, and Ramallah) with an eye to

historicizing the contemporary relationship between visual culture and the urban public sphere as it was developed in the Middle East and North Africa during the decade between 9/11 and

the “Arab Spring.” Case studies include institutions such as the Cinémathèque Tanger, the

Arab Image Foundation, Ashkal Alwan, ARIA, MAMA, and the International Art Academy in Palestine (expected completion date: 2018).

Book

From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962. Duke University Press, 2014.

[Reviewed: Jan Baetens, Leonardo Reviews, May 2014. http://leonardo.info/reviews/may2014/feldman-

baetens.php; Allesandra Amin, H-AMCA, H-Net Reviews, May 2015. http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=43959; Michèle Cone, American Historical Review,

December 2014; Ismail Ferhat, Lectures, September 2015. http://lectures.revues.org/17188;

Megan Luke, Art Bulletin, 97:2, June 2015; Mani Sharpe, Modern & Contemporary France, 22:4, June 2015; Thomas McDonough, July 2015. http://www.h-

france.net/vol15reviews/vol15no95mcdonough.pdf; Sung Eun Choi, History: Reviews of New Books, 43:4, September 2015]]

Articles In-Progress

“After Decolonization”

This journal article explores the transnational cultural influence—from places as diverse as

Canada, China, and the Arabian Gulf—that has shaped the design and realization of three different urban plans centered around museums and architectural monuments meant to

commemorate the War of Liberation in Algiers from the mid-1970s to the present (expected

completion date: 2017).

“Yto Barrada’s Model”

This journal article analyzes recent photographic work by Yto Barrada in relationship to the

formulation of historical time and urban space that is proposed by her renovation and

stewardship of the Cinémathèque Tanger. It argues that Barrada’s image-based practice models the city as a private performance, and, in so doing, produces an abstract, decolonial urbanism

that is both pleasurable and distinctly resistant (expected completion date: 2016).

“Ten Thoughts on the Future of Contemporary Art History”

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This text offers a polemical account of contemporary art history’s present and future in order to

argue for the shifts in both method and object that are increasingly necessary in order to accommodate the diasporic (and in other ways non-national), popular, and contingent factors

that shape art production and its reception today. It hopes to address the conditions of writing

contemporary art history in a period marked by the uneven and heterogeneous consequences of territorial conflict and geopolitical inequality, while also situating this endeavor in polemical

relation to the diminished place that the Humanities occupy within the contemporary university context (expected completion date: 2015).

Articles in Journals and Books

“The Rules of the Game.” In Seductive Exacting Realism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and the

Renaissance Society; New York: Sternberg Press (2015).

“The Thought of Sex—The problematic presentation of Let it Be in Beirut (with Akram Zaatari, Stuart

Comer, and William E. Jones).” In Queer Geographies: Beirut, Tijauna, Copenhagen , ed. Lasse Lau, Mirene Arasanios, Felipe Zuñiga-González, and Omar Mismar, 28-43. Staendertorvet,

Denmark: Museet for Samtisdkunst, 2014.

“Flash Forward: Pictures at War.” In Photography’s Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation, edited by Ali Behdad and Luke Gartlan. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute

(2013).

“New Writing Systems/Writing New Systems.” In Specters of Artaud: Language and the Arts circa

1952, edited by Kaira Cabañas. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (2012).

[Essay and catalogue reviewed: Alan More, “A Scream is Named: Excursions in Artaudian Culture,” post.thing.net. http://post.thing.net/node/4087]

“As the World Constricts: Kader Attia’s Pictures of Spacelessness.” nka: Journal of Contemporary

African Art 26 (2010): 60-69.

“Words, Actions, Inactions, and Things: Reality Between La Résistance and L’insoumission.” In New Realisms, edited by Julia Robinson, 41-52. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina

Sofía and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.

[Essay and catalogue reviewed: Jaimey Hamilton, “New Realisms in the 1960s,” Art Journal 71, no. 2

(Summer 2012): 117-120; Rachel Haidu, “New Realisms: 1957-1962” Artforum October 2010).]

“Excavating Images on the Border.” Third Text 23, no. 3 (2009): 309-322.

“Orchestral Maneuvers in the Light.” In Allora & Calzadilla, edited by Beatrix Ruf, 29-39. Zurich:

JRPRingier, 2009.

“In This Place on These Days.” In Akram Zaatari: Earth of Endless Secrets, edited by Karl Bassil and

Akram Zaatari, 124-127. Frankfurt: Portikus, 2009.

“On Being Significant During War.” October 123 (2008): 45-48.

“Life on the Surface of Everywhere.” In Kader Attia, edited by Régis Debray, 93-97. Huarte, Spain:

Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, 2008.

“Mining War: Fragments of a Conversation Already Passed.” With Akram Zaatari. Art Journal 66, no.

2 (2007): 48-67.

“Of the Public Born: Raymond Hains and La France déchirée.” October 108 (2004): 73-96.

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“On Not Being Venezuelan.” In Gego 1957-1988: Thinking the Line, edited by Nadja Rottner and Peter

Weibel, 59-65. Cologne: Hatje Cantz, 2006.

[Catalogue reviewed: Monica Amor, “Gego: Exploding the Field.” Art Journal 66, no. 4 (Winter 2007).]

“More than Confessional: Testimonial and the Subject of Rape.” In The Subject of Rape, edited by

Monica Chau, Hannah Feldman, Jennifer Kabat and Hannah Kruse. 12-41. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993.

Articles and Criticism in Art Periodicals

“Focus: The Way of the Shovel,” Artforum International February 2013.

“Focus: This Will Have Been,” Artforum International Summer 2012.

“Time to Speak.” Frieze 118, October 2008.

“Michael Rakowitz and the Tactics of Being In-Between and Everywhere Else.” Art & Australia,

October 2008.

“Sound Tracks: The Art of Allora and Calzadilla.” Artforum International 45:9, May 2007.

“Focus: Rudoph Stingel.” Artforum International 45:8, April 2007.

“Desert of the Real: The Art of Mai-Thu Perret.” Artforum International 44:10, Summer 2006.

“Salons de Refuse: Raymond Hains and Arman.” Artforum International 44:6, February, 2006.

“Dan Peterman: Plastic Economies, Standard Kiosk (Chicago), Works and Projects.” caa.reviews,

September 2004. doi: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2004.80

“‘Too Jewish?: Challenging Traditional Identities,’ at The Jewish Museum.” World Art, Fall 1996.

“Kienholz and the Kienholzes.” Contemporary Art 3, no. 3, Late Spring 1996.

“Rachel Whiteread at Luhring Augustine Gallery.” World Art, Fall 1996.

“Interzone: Interview with Jonathan Crary.” World Art, Fall 1995. [Reprinted as “Das Verschwinden des historischen Denkens.” Neue Bildende Kunst 2, 1996.]

“Some Like It Haute: Interview with Marjorie Garber.” World Art, Spring 1995.

“Offense in Venice.” World Art, Fall 1995.

“The Lolita Complex,” World Art, Winter 1996.

“Francesca Woodman,” World Art, Winter 1994.

Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries

Review of Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity, by Cynthia Becker. Middle East

Journal 61, no. 4 (2007): 728-730.

“Eddie Adams.” “Urs Lüthi.” “Piet Zwart.” In Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography, edited by

Lynne Warren, 14-15; 973-976; 1718-1719, New York: Routledge, 2005.

Review of Unseen Warhol, by John O’Connor and Benjamin Liu. Contemporary Visual Arts 14 (1997):

82-83.

“The Bottom Line.” Review of Art and Money, by Marc Shell and The Author, Art, and the Market: Rereading the History of Aesthetics, by Martha Woodmansee. Art Journal 55, no. 2 (1996):

107-108.

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Professional Talks

Invited Presentations

“Curating in the Future Anterior,” inaugural lecture, Jabre Lecture Series, Department of Art History,

American University of Beirut, March 2016. “Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt,” Department of Visual Arts, University of Chicago,

February 2016.

“The Decolonial Modern,” Wilson Center for the Humanities and Arts, University of Georgia, December 2015.

“Our Green Mirror (with Ika Haiduk),” Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms (14th Istanbul Biennial),

Istanbul, September 2015. “Aesthetics and other erasures : l’art durant la guerre d’indépendance algérienne,” Généalogie d’un

Territoire, Institute National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), June 2015. “Civilization Redux,” CREDOC, University College London, March 2015.

“Yto Barrada’s Model,” Centre for the Study of Contemporary Art, University College London, March

2015. “Pillar of Salt,” Department of Art History, Yale University, April 2015.

“Decoloniality as Model,” The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, April 2015.

“The Politics and Aesthetics of Memory,” Dialogue with Marianne Hirsch, Program in European Cultural Studies, Princeton University, February 2015.

“Of Models and Metalepsis: Yto Barrada’s Cinematheque Tangier,” Department of Art, Art History,

and Design, Michigan State University, November 2014. “Opening Pandora’s Box,” (Keynote) Department of Art, Art History, and Design, Undergraduate Art

History and Visual Culture Symposium, Michigan State University, November 2014. “Comparative & Interdisciplinary Approaches in the Field of Turkish Studies,” Northwestern

University, October 2014 (discussant).

“Model Spaces and Model Publics in Post-Independence Maghrebi Cities,” Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada, July 2014.

“Model Cinema: Public Spheres and Private Histories in Yto Barrada’s Album,” Department of Visual

and Cultural Studies, University of Rochester, April 2014. “Interiors/Exteriors: Avant Garde Itineraries,” Department of Art History and the Smart Museum of Art,

University of Chicago, February 2014 (roundtable speaker). “Michael Rakowitz, the Break-Up: Conversation with Jessica Winegar and Sukhdev Sandhu ” Rhona

Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, February 2014.

“Object/Subjective: Hannah Feldman and Zach Cahill,” Smart Museum, University of Chicago, November 2013.

“After Decolonization: Commemorative Aesthetics and the Politics of Remembrance and

Recuperation,” Department of Art History and Communications, McGill University, Montreal, April 2013.

“The Global American Artist: In Conversation with Michael Rakowitz,” Chicago Humanities Festival,

November 2012. “Model Theory, Model Practice,” Scale Models, University of Chicago and Northwestern University,

November 2012 (moderator and respondent). “Art By Telephone and Other Adventures in Conceptualism: In Conversation with Iain Baxter&,”

Chicago Humanities Festival, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 2011.

“The Tower(s) that Revolution Built,” Institute of African Studies, Emory University, April 2011.

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“Post-War Histories: Which War?” Modern Arab Art: Objects, Histories, and Methodologies, Doha,

Qatar, December 2010. “Art and Opposition: Leon Golub and Shirin Neshat,” Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University,

Evanston, November 2011. (moderator).

“Flash Forward: Pictures at War,” Zoom Out, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, May 2010. “In Plain Sight,” University of Illinois at Chicago/Gallery 400, March 2010.

“Pictures of Politics and the Politics of Pictures,” Inaugural lecture, “Re-Vision,” a year-long series commemorating 10 years of the Visual Studies Program at University of California, Irvine,

January 2009.

“Decolonizing Spectacle,” Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, January 2009. “Staging the Diachronic City: Space and Simultaneity in Hagia Sophia,” with Cecily Hilsdale,

Northwestern University Keyman Family Program Workshop on Modern Turkish Studies,

Istanbul, June 2008. “What would it mean to ‘Let it be’ here and now?,” Homeworks IV, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon,

April 2008. “Shooting Protest,” Violence, Political and Sacred, Northwestern University and University of Pisa,

Evanston, April 2008.

“The Art of Decolonization,” School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, February 2008.

“Aesthetics of Action: Les Emeutes and the Space of Vision in the Paris Suburbs,” French

Interdisciplinary Group, Northwestern University, Evanston, February 2006. “Art During War: Visible Space and the Aesthetics of Action, Paris 1954/2004,” Department of the

History of Art and Architecture and Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard

University, Cambridge, 2004. “A Tale of Two Nations: Art and Action in Postcolonial Paris,” Department of Art and Art History,

DePaul University, Chicago, 2004. “Paris, 1961: Spatial Politics and Urban Representations,” Department of Art and Art History,

University of Missouri, St. Louis, 2002.

Select Conference Papers Delivered

“Profound Dissonance: Art After Liberation, Paris 1945-2015,” Les Arts à Paris Après la Libération, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschicte/Centre Allemand d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, June 2015

(invited). “Petite Planète,” (Keynote address), Relectures postocoloniales des échanges artistiques et culturels

entre Europe et Maghreb (Algérie, France, Italie, Maroc, Tunisie), Musée national du Bardo,

Tunis, May 2014. (Cancelled) “What Does Decolonization Look Like?: Transverality and the Recuperation of Revolution, Algiers,

1964,” at “The Global Sixties: Art and the Cold War,” CAA, Chicago, February 2014.

“Avant ’68: France and the Transnational Flow of Culture in the Global Long Sixties,” CAA, Los Angeles, February 2012 (respondent).

“Rebuilding Revolution,” at Nation Building: Politics of Space in the African City, CAA, New York,

February 2011. “Ten Thoughts on the Future of Contemporary Art History,” at The Future of Contemporary Art

History, CAA, Chicago, February 2010 (invited). “Shooting Protest,” Violence: Political and Sacred, Northwestern University and the University of Pisa,

Evanston, April 2008 (invited).

“Virtually Utopia,” at Virtualities: Contemporary Art Between Fact and Fiction, CAA, New York, February 2007.

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“The Space of Disagreement and the Spaces of its Displacement” at Spaces of War: France and the

Francophone World, European Studies Consortium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St. Paul, October 2006.

“The Right to the City: Contre le couvre-feu, Paris, October 17, 1961,” at Cultural Encounters in Urban

Space, The European Association of Urban Historians, 8th International Conference on Urban History, Stockholm, Sweden, August 2006.

“Art During War: The Street, the City, and the Nation in La France déchirée,” at Art and the City: A Conference on Postwar Interactions with the Urban Realm, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May

2006.

“Veiled Visions: The Politics of the Image after 9-11,” at Art after 9-11, Art History Association Annual Meeting, Leeds, UK, April 2006.

“From a Nation Torn: Décollage, Urban Space, and the Reclaimed Public Sphere,” Space Tactics:

Modern Meditations on the Third Dimension, Yale University, New Haven, February 2001. “Isidore Isou and Lettriste Poetry: Beyond Words to History,” at American Comparative Literature

Association, Montréal, Canada, April 1999.

Sessions Chaired

“Avant ’68: France and the Transnational Flow of Culture in the Global Long Sixties,” co-chair with

Noit Banai, CAA, Los Angeles, February 2012.

“Public Disorder: European Art and Its Publics After WWII,” co-chair with Noit Banai, AAH Annual Meeting, Manchester, UK, April 2009.

“Towards a Political Art of the 21st Century,” co-chair with Judith Rodenbeck, CAA Annual Meeting,

Dallas, February 2008. “Power and the Gendered Imagery of Contemporary Global Politics,” respondent and co-chair with

Carol Duncan, CAA Annual Meeting, Dallas, February 2008. “Regarding Decolonization,” co-chair with Stephanie Schwartz, CAA Annual Meeting, Boston,

February 2006.

Invitational Seminars and Workshops

“Terrorist Transgressions: Gendered Representations of the Terrorist Body in Modern Culture,” chaired by Sue Malvern (University of Reading, UK) and Gabriel Koureas (Birkbeck College,

University of London, UK) 2010-2012, with funding from the AHRC (UK). “Orientalist Photography,” two-year workshop, chaired by Ali Behdad, UCLA, Getty Research

Institute, Los Angeles, 2008-2010.

“Fluxus Workshop,” two-day invitational workshop, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2008.

Conference and Seminar Organization

“Before the Contemporary: Arts and their Institutions in the Middle East, North Africa, and

Turkey,” Northwestern University, -June 2015 (sole convenor).

“Postcolonial Rereading of artistic relations between France, Italy and the Maghreb," the Ecole du

Louvre, the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Medici), the Ecole française de Rome, The University of Bordeaux, and the Laboratory Heritage of Tunis-La Manouba, 2014-2015 (appointed member of the

comité scientifique).

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“The Aesthetics of Engagement, 1968/2008.” Northwestern University, June 2008 (sole

convener).

Editorial, Peer-Review and Related Activities

Editorial and Professional Boards

Book Placement Editor, H-France, Society for French Historical Studies 2014-

Chair, Art Journal Best Essay Prize Committee, 2013-

Member, Art Journal Best Essay Prize Committee, 2012- Chair, Art Journal editorial board, 2008-2010

Member, CAA Publications Committee, 2008-2010

Member, Art Journal editorial board, 2006-2010 Field (Commissioning) Editor for New York and International Regions, Exhibition Reviews,

caa.reviews, 2005-2007

Peer Review

Art Journal, Duke University Press, Rutgers Art Review, Wadsworth, Middle East Studies Journal,

Oxford University Press.

Academic Review

MA in curatorial studies, American University of Beirut, 2016

Grant and Prize Evaluation

Mellon International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Sciences Research Council, Selection

Committee, 2014- American Academy in Berlin, Reviewer, 2015

National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowships Panel Jurist, 2015

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; invited project assessor, 2013 Rhonda Saad Prize for Best Graduate Paper in Modern Arab Art, Association for Modern and

Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey; chair, 2011-2013 Propeller Grant, Three Walls/Gallery 400/Andy Warhol Foundation; juror, 2010

Arts Writers Grant Program/Andy Warhol Foundation; Evaluator Jurist, 2006

MFA Evaluation

Department of Art Theory and Practice, Northwestern, critic, 2014 Department of Visual Art, University of Chicago, Visiting Critic, 2013

MFA studio critique, University of Chicago; Visiting Critic, 2010

MFA studio critique, School of the Art Institute; Visiting Critic, 2007

Curatorial Work

encore, with Huey Copeland, Gallery 40000, Chicago, 2007.

The Subject of Rape, with Monica Chau, Jennifer Kabat, and Hannah Kruse, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1993.

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Leaves of Absence

Mellon New Directions Fellowship, 2015-2017

Postdoctoral Fellowship, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA 2008-2009

Teaching Experience

Teaching Areas

20th and 21st century art and visual culture; French art and cinema; art and urban space; art and

decolonization; art and war; participatory practice; theories of modernism and postmodernism; theories

of representation and photography; post- and decolonial visual culture; contemporary art in/about the Middle East and North Africa; the public sphere and its institutional histories.

Courses Taught at Northwestern

Graduate Seminars:

Art During War: Re-visioning Modernism

Art and the City from 1960-present Site/Street/Screen: Art and Visual Culture in France, 1945-present

Methods and Meanings

Istanbul Imagined (on-site; with Cecily Hilsdale) The Dissertation

Document, Image, Object: Photographs of Catastrophe Art Historical Writing

De-linking and Decoloniality

Indexing the Contemporary | Reading the Now

Undergraduate Courses:

Looking at War (1st year seminar)

Introduction to Contemporary Art History (large lecture) The Art of Participation (mid-size lecture)

Postmodernism from Before and After (discussion-lecture)

Contemporary Art Beyond the White Box (discussion-lecture) Re-visioning the 20th Century (discussion-lecture)

Art in/from/about the Middle East (mid-size lecture)

Contemporary Art from the Islamic World (seminar; with Akram Zaatari) Spaces of Chicago (on-site seminar; with David Van Zanten)

Humanities in the World: Global Orients (Kaplan Scholars in the Humanities; with Rebecca

Johnson and Jessica Winegar; seminar and mid-size lecture) Interpreting Culture (Comparative Literature mid-size lecture)

“What is a place? Art and the Visual Public Sphere in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa” (advanced seminar, cross-listed with MENA, CLS, and AH)

Teaching Support and Awards

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Award for Excellence in Mentoring Undergraduate Research, Northwestern University, 2015

Faculty Honor Roll, Associated Student Government, Northwestern University, 2010-2011 Searle Fellow, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern University, 2010-2011

“Spaces of Chicago,” Inaugural Barbara and Richard Franke Course in the Humanities, 2007

Junior Research Seminar Course Enhancement Grant, 2007 Course Enhancement Grants, 2005-2007

Hewlett Course Development Award for Middle Eastern Art Course, 2006

Advising Experience

Ph.D. Completed (Primary Adviser)

Alison Fisher, Art History, “Experimental Collectivity: Housing, Technology and Architectural Research in France, 1952-1978,” 2014 (2006-; co-director with David Van Zanten). Harold and

Margo Schiff Assistant Curator of Architecture, The Art Institute of Chicago. Lily Woodruff, Art History, 2012, “Disordering the Establishment: Decentralization in the Art of Post-

1968 France” (2007-; co-tutelle with EHESS; Bourse Chateaubriand, 2008; Bourse Marandon,

2008). Assistant Professor, Michigan State University (2012-) Chad Elias, PhD Art History, 2011. “Surviving Images: The Art and Visual Culture of the Lebanese

Wars.” (SSRC Graduate Dissertation Research Fellowship, 2008). Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral

Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, University of California at Los Angeles (2011-2012); Lecturer (permanent faculty) of Art History in the

Department of Art History at the University of York, UK (2012-2015; Dartmouth University,

2016-).

Ph.D. in-progress (Primary Adviser)

Rory Sykes, “We Are All Fedayeen”: The Project of Reshaping Palestinian National Identity and

Documenting Revolutionary History, 1967-1982.” (Fulbright Fellow (Jordan), 2015. Erin Reitz, “The Political Geographies of the Black Panthers: From Oakland to Outer Space, 1966-

1982,” (Paris Critical Theory Program, 2013-2014).

Emma Chubb, Art History, “Tangier Trash and Rif Awbache: Art, Cinema, and the Geography of Moroccan National Identity,” (Presidential Fellow, Northwestern University, 2015-2017; AIMS

Long Research Fellowship 2013-2014; Paris Program in Critical Theory, 2012-2013; Crown Family Middle East Research Travel Award, Northwestern University, 2011; Shanley Fund

Fellowship for Pre-Dissertation Research, Northwestern University, 2011; CLS Fellowship, US

Department of State, 2010). Brynn Hatton, Art History, “By Way of Vietnam: Racial Critique and Social Collapse in Transnational

Protest Art. (SSRC-IDRF Dissertation Fellowship, 2014-2015; Schiff Fellowship for Critical

Architectural Writing, Art Institute of Chicago, 2011; Shanley Fund Fellowship for Pre-Dissertation Research, 2011).

Nancy Lim, Modern and Contemporary Art History, (2008-). Curatorial Assistant, Museum of Modern

Art, 2011-.

Dissertation Committee Work

Ph.D. Completed:

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Elizabeth Benjamin, Art History, 2106. “Caillebotte’s Things: People and Posessions Entangled.” (2nd

reader) Nancy Demerdash, ““Tunisia, 1940-1970: The Spatial Politics of Reconstruction, Decolonization, and

Development,” Art History, Princeton University, 2015. (external reader)

Angelina Lucento, Art History, 2014. “Debating Visual Politics: The Conflict between Painting and Photography in Soviet Art, 1926-1937.” (2nd reader)

David Calder, Theatre and Drama, 2014. “Visible Machinery: Street Theatre and Deindustrialization in Contemporary France.” (2nd Reader)

Jill Bugajski, Art History, 2014. “Exhibiting the East: Publics, Politics and the ‘Bloc’ in the United

States 1940-1970.” (2nd Reader) Patrick Tomlin, Art History, 2013. “The Origins of Abstraction.” (Member)

Jacob Lewis, Art History, 2012. “From Repetition to Reproduction: Charles Nègre (1820-1880) In

Pursuit of the Photographic.” (Member) Victor Espinosa, Sociology, 2012. “Borderlands: Art and Immigration.” (2nd Reader)

Jennifer Cazenave, Comparative Literary Studies/EHESS, 2011 with Highest Honors. “L’image et son absence: souvenirs de femmes dans Shoah.” (2nd Reader)

Amber Travis Tang, Art History, 2009. “Theatres of War, Torture, and Disappearance: Leon Golub’s

Mercenaries, Interrogations, and White Squads, 1976-1987.” (2nd Reader) Meredith TeGrotenhuis, Art History, 2009. “Stabilizing the City: Berenice Abbott's Photographs and

Urban Representation in the 1930s.” (Member)

Stephanie Schwartz, Art History, Columbia University, 2007. “A Frontier Town Still: Cuba's Urban Republic, 1925-1933.” (External Reader)

Ph.D. In-progress:

Jake Leveton, “Blake’s Ecological Modernism” (2015-) Ashlie Sandoval, “Performing Disorientation: Urban Art Interventions and the Commons.”

(Performance Studies) (2015-)

Antawan Byrd, “Sound, Technology, and the Politics of Listening in Afro-Atlantic Art.” (2014-) (2nd Reader)

Kathleen Tahk, Art History, “A Revolution Without Borders: The Soviet Art of the Latvian Riflemen”

(2012-) (2nd Reader) Faye Gleiser, Art History, “Guerilla Tactics and the Aesthetics of Resistance in the U.S., 1969-1979,”

(2012-) (2nd Reader) Emilie Boone, Art History, “Developing a Legacy Through Photography: James Van Der Zee and the

Making of Harlem’s Visual Narrative,” (2012-) (Member)

Elisabeth Ross, Rhetoric and Public Culture, “Visual Rhetoric of Cold War Privacy,” (2008). (Member)

Ph.D. Qualifying Exam Committees

Ashlie Sandoval, Performance Studies, “Public and Urban Art,” (Examiner), 2015

Jake Leveton, Art History, “Ecological Modernism,” 2015 (Examiner)

Rory Sykes, Art History, “20th and 21st Century Art,” 2013 (Primary Advisor and Examiner) Erin Reitz, Art History, “Theories of Space and Site,” 2013 (Primary Advisor and Examiner)

Grace Deveney, Art History, “Theory and History of Photography,” 2013 (Secondary Field Examiner) Emma Chubb, Art History, “20th and 21st Century Art,” 2012. (Primary Advisor and Examiner)

Brynn Hatton, Art History, “20th and 21st Century Art,” 2012. (Primary Advisor and Examiner)

Emilie Boone, Art History, “Theories of Photography,” 2012. (Secondary Field Examiner) Faye Gleiser, Art History, “20th and 21st Century Art,” 2012. (Major Field Examiner)

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Kathleen Tahk, Art History, “20th and 21st Century Art,” 2012. (Major Field Examiner)

David Calder, Interdisciplinary PhD in Drama and Theatre, “Space and Place,” 2010. (Examiner) Rhonda Saad, Art History, Art History, “Modern and Contemporary Art in Palestine,” 2010. (Primary

Advisor and Examiner)

Molly MacKean, History, “Artistic Engagement with the Modern City,” 2010. (Minor Field Examiner) Angelina Lucento, Art History, “Art of the 20th Century,” 2009. (Major Field Examiner)

Jill Bugajski, Art History, “Post-WWII Performance,” 2008. (Primary Advisor and Examiner) Lily Woodruff, Art History, “Art of the 20th Century,” 2007. (Primary Advisor and Examiner)

Robert Cavanagh, Screen Cultures, “Cultural and Collective Memory,” and “Dissemination” 2006.

(Examiner)

Advisees In Coursework/Exams:

Douglas Gabriel, Contemporary Korean Art, 2013-

Thomas Love, Contemporary Art, 2014- Talia Shabtay, Contemporary Art, 2014-

Undergraduate Advising

Honors Theses Directed and in Progress

Sinéad López, “On ‘loving the light switch next to the Miro’: Louise Lawler and Emily Hall Tremaine,”

2015. Winter URG 2015.

Claire Dillon, Honors in Art History, 2014. “Felix Gonzales Torres and the Problem of Biography.” Summer URG, 2013; Winter URG 2014; Phi Beta Kappa, 2014; Carson Webster Prize for Best

Honors Thesis. Betsy Feuerstein, Honors in Interdisciplinary Studies (Art History and Political Science), 2012. “Dakar

Graffiti: Incitement Towards Political Change.” URG summer 2011; Katherine L. Krieghbaum

Scholarship, 2011; Phi Betta Kappa 2012. Angela Wang, Honors in Art History, 2012. “Cross-Pollinating the Grassroots: A Study of Collective

Artistic Practice in Punk Communities.” URG summer 2011.

Julia Detchon, Honors in Art History, 2011. “Membering/Dismembering/Remembering: The Body as Site of Resistance to Argentina’s Military Dictatorship.” URG, Winter 2010.

Sophia Mancall-Bitell, Honors in Art History, 2011. “In Search of Los Angeles: Myths, Movies and Maps in the Work of Ed Ruscha.” URG Winter 2011; Carson Webster Prize for Best Honors

Thesis in Art History.

Elliot Reichert, Honors in Art History, 2010. “Unretractable Social Marks: The Critical Spatial Practice of Street Art.” URG, Summer 2009; Katherine L. Krieghbaum Scholarship, 2009; Phi Beta

Kappa, 2009; URG, Spring 2010; Carson Webster Prize for Best Honors Thesis in Art History.

Madelaine Eulich, Honors in Art History, Anthropology, 2008. “The Influence of Display: Non-European Art and Its Presentation at the Musée de Quai Branly.” URG winter 2007; Phi Betta

Kappa, 2008; American Undergraduate Research Society Award, 2008.

Amanda Wasielewski, Honors in Interdisciplinary Studies: Art History and Art Theory and Practice, 2007. “The Aesthetics of Accessibility in Post-Industrial Urban Space.” Carson Webster Prize

for Best Honors Thesis in Art History, 2007. Alexis Klein, Honors in Art History, 2006. “Blur: 20th Century German Photography and Identity.”

URG 2006.

Rachel Wolff, Honors in Art History, Journalism, 2006. “Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Andy Warhol, and the Mechanisms of Iconic Reference.” URG, Winter 2005.

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Lauren Wright, Honors in Art History, 2005. “Time-based to Time-bearing: Temporality in Recent Film

and Video Art,” Co-Advisor with Lyle Massey. Carson Webster Prize for Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis in Art History.

Undergraduate Research Grant Summer Projects Supervised

Claire Dillon, Art History, “Biography vs. Bibliography: Felix Gonzalez Torres’ Cuban Roots,” (Havana, 2013)

Betsy Feuerstein, Art History and Political Science, “Dakar Graffiti: Incitement Towards Political

Change,” (Dakar; 2011). Angela Wang, Art History and Art Theory and Practice, “Cross-Pollinating the Grassroots: A Study of

Collective Artistic Practice in Punk Communities,” (New York, Maine, Utah; 2011).

Elliot Reichert, Art History, “The Writing on the Wall: Stencil Graffiti on Context, Commodity, and the Fate of the Art Object,” (London; 2009).

Caitlin Bruce, Philosophy, “Public Art, Street Art, and Conflict: Dialogues in Chicago” (Chicago; 2006).

Undergraduate Research Grant Term-Time Projects Supervised

Sinéad López, “On ‘loving the light switch next to the Miro’: Louise Lawler and Emily Hall Tremaine,”

(Washington DC; 2015). Claire Dillon, “Felix Gonzalez Torres,” (New York; 2014).

Julia Detchon, “Cuerpos de la Resistencia: Reclaiming Bodies from South American Dictatorships of

the 1970s,” (Buenos Aires; 2010). Elliot Reichert, “Taking Back the City: Street Art, Site-Specificity, and the Battle for Urban Space,”

(London; 2010). Madelaine Eulich, “The Influence of Display: Non-European Art and Its Presentation at the Musée de

Quai Branly,” (Paris; 2008).

Amanda Wasielewski, “The Aesthetics of Accessibility in Post-Industrial Urban Space,” (Chicago; 2007).

Alexis Klein, “Blur: 20th Century German Photography and Identity,” (Cologne, Dusseldörf; 2006).

Rachel Wolff, “Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, Andy Warhol, and the Mechanisms of Iconic Reference,” (Paris; 2006).

Independent Studies and Directed Readings (by year)

2015-2016

Undergraduate (AH 399)

Oona Ahn, Art History: Museum Internship (fall)

Graduate (AH 499)

Douglas Gordon, Art History: 20 and 21st century art and theory

2014-2015

Undergraduate (AH 396; 399)

Sinéad Lopez, Art History: Thesis research (Louise Lawler, postmodernist affect) (fall, winter) Mariam Al Askari, Art History: Museum Internship (winter)

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Graduate (AH 499) Jake Leveton, Art History: Ecological Modernism (fall; winter)

2013-2014

Undergraduate (AH396; 399) Kathryn Watts, Art History: Museum Internship

Sarah Hanson, Art History: Museum Internship

Claire Dillon, Art History: Thesis research (Cuban art) (fall, winter)

2012-2013

Graduate (AH499)

Rory Sykes, Art History: Contemporary Art and Theory (fall, winter, spring) Grace Deveney, Art History: Theories of Photography (fall, winter)

Erin Reitz, Art History: Theories of Space (fall, winter, spring)

Undergraduate (AH396)

Michelle Brooks, Art History: Museum Internship

Sophie Jenkins, Art History: Museum Internship Claire Dillon, Art History: Thesis Research (Cuban art)

2011-2012

Graduate (AH499): Emma Chubb, Art History: Contemporary Art in the Mediterranean (fall, winter, spring)

Brynn Hatton, Art History: Postcolonial Art in the Former French Empire (fall, winter, spring)

Emilie Boone, Art History: Theories of Photography (winter)

Undergraduate (AH399 and AH 396):

Betsy Feuerstein, Art History/Political Science: Graffiti and Urban Art (fall, winter) Angela Wang, Art History/Art Theory and Practice: Collectivism in Contemporary Art (fall, winter)

2010-2011

Graduate (AH499): Caitlin Bruce, Rhetoric: Documentary Film and Affect

Bradley Akin, Theatre: Activist Theater

Undergraduate (AH 399):

Julia Detchon, Art History: Art, Dictatorship, and Trauma (fall, winter)

Sophia Mancall-Bitell, Art History: Art and Urban Space in Los Angeles (fall, winter)

2009-2010

Graduate (AH 499):

Rhonda Saad, Art History: Nationalism and Art; Art in Palestine (fall, winter, spring) David Calder, Theatre and Drama: Space and Place (winter)

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Undergraduate (AH 399)

Elliot Reichert, Art History: Street Art and Urban Space (fall, winter)

2007-2008

Graduate (AH 499):

Jill Bugajski, Art History: Post-WWII Performance & Cultural Exchange (fall, winter)

Undergraduate (399):

Joelle Contorno, Art History and Theatre: Arts Writing (winter) Madelaine Eulich, Art History and Anthropology: Postcolonial Museology (fall, winter)

Undergraduate Museum Internship (AH 396):

Joelle Contorno, Art History/Theatre: Internship in the Arts (Art Institute) (winter)

2006-2007

Graduate (AH 499): Lily Woodruff, Art History: Post-WWII French Art and Theories of Utopia (winter, spring)

Bo Zheng, Art History: Activist Art and Oppositional Practice in Chicago (spring)

Undergraduate (AH 399):

Amanda Wasielewski, Art History and ATP: Urban Space and Resistance (fall, winter) Joe Schermoly, Art History and Theatre: Avant-garde art and theater (winter)

2005 -2006

Graduate (AH 499):

Evans Chan, RTVF/Screen Cultures: Postmodern Theory (fall) Chad Elias, Art History: Media Theory and Video Art (winter, spring)

Alison Fisher, Art History: Theories of Space and the Public Sphere

Undergraduate (AH399):

Alexis Klein, Art History: 20th Century German Photography (fall, winter) Rachel Wolff, Art History and Journalism: Female muses in 20th Century Art (fall, winter)

Service

Departmental Offices

Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2011-2014

Honors Coordinator, 2011-2014 Teaching Assistant Coordinator, 2010-2011

Faculty Liaison to Digital Services, 2009-2010; 2007-2008

Acting Director of Undergraduate Studies, fall 2007 Undergraduate Honors Coordinator, 2006-2007

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Graduate Fellowship Advisor, 2005-2007

Standing Departmental Committees

Committee on Undergraduate Affairs (chair and member) 2011-2015 Committee on Undergraduate Honors (chair and member) 2011- 2015

Committee on Curriculum, 2010-2015 Graduate Studies Committee, 2010-2011

Graduate Admissions Committee, 2010-2011

Committee on Undergraduate Affairs, 2007-2008

Ad-hoc Departmental Committees

Committee on Warnock Gift Allocation, 2014-2015

Search Committee Member, Crowe Professor of Art History, 2013-2014 Art Institute of Chicago Graduate Symposium Prize Committee, 2012

Graduate Program Restructuring Committee, member 2005-2007; 2009-2010

Search Committee (Medieval) 2009-2010 Hiring Plan Committee, summer 2008

Pick-Laudati Arts Computing Fellowship Committee, 2007-2008

MA Exam Question Committee, 2007; 2008 Prospective Graduate Student Weekend Committee, co-chair, spring 2007

Audio-visual purchase committee, Art History/Visual Media Center, 2006

Graduate Student Writing Competitions Nominating Committee, 2006

Program Committees

Undergraduate Studies Committee, CLS 2011-2012; 2014-2015

Middle Eastern and North African Studies Program Committee, 2014-2015 Middle Eastern and North African Studies Graduate Admissions Committee 2012-2013

College Committees (Standing and Ad-hoc) and Offices

1st Year Undergraduate (“Freshman”) Advisor, 2010-2011; 2012-2013; 2014 Undergraduate Research Grant Committee, 2009-2015

Steering Committee Member, French Interdisciplinary Program, 2009-

Search Committee External Member, Art Theory and Practice, 2005-2006

University Committees

Kresge Renovation Faculty Committee, 2013-

Provost’s Long Distance Learning Working Group, 2012-2013

Search Committee, Humanities Institute, Media Convergences, 2012-2013 Search Committee, University Library, search for Visual Resources Librarian, 2008

Search Committee, Department of Radio, TV, Film, School of Communications, 2005-2006

Teaching Mentorships Antawan Byrd, 2014-2015, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern

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Faye Gleiser, 2012-2013, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern

Rory Sykes, 2012-2013, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern Alison Boyle, 2011-2012, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern

Nick Miller, 2011-2012, Searle Center for Teaching Excellence, Northwestern

Student Relations

Art History Honors Colloquium, Convenor, 2011-2015

Nominated Residential College Master, CCS, 2012

Faculty Fellow, Jones Residential College 2006-2012 Faculty Advisor, Northwestern Art Review, 2007-2008; 2009-2010

Undergraduate Honors Poster Session Judge, June 2007

Professional Society Memberships

College Art Association

Association of Art Historians (UK)

Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey American Institute of Maghrebin Studies (AIMS)