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European and US-American art and visual culture from the nineteenth century to the present; issues of gender, history, and theory; and the history of photography, film, and media culture
My work is based in a profound belief in art and visual culture’s capacity not only to reflect the past and the present but also to imagine and shape a better future.
Education
PhD, The History of Art, The University of Michigan
MA, Art History, Queen's University, Canada
BA, Art History, Oberlin College
Books
Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics, MIT Press, 2019.
Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective (with Patrick Rössler), English edition: Bloomsbury UK; German edition: Knesebeck Verlag, 2019.
Tempo, Tempo!: The Bauhaus Photomontages of Marianne Brandt, Jovis Verlag/Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Museum of Design; Harvard Art Museums; and the International Center for Photography, New York, 2005.
Edited books
Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School, (with Patrick Rössler), Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2019.
4 "Bauhausmädels": Gertrud Arndt, Marianne Brandt, Margarete Heymann, Margaretha Reichardt (with Patrick Rössler, Kai-Uwe Schierz, and Miriam Krautwurst), Sandstein Verlag, 2019. Bilingual catalogue to the co-curated exhibition at the Angermuseum, Erfurt, and in Berlin at the Thuringian State Federal Representaton Building. Exhibition
Passages of Exile (with Burcu Dogramaci), 2017, Edition Text + Kritik, 2017.
New Woman International: Representations in Photography and Film from the 1870s through the 1960s (with Vanessa Rocco), The University of Michigan Press, 2011.