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JORDANA MENDELSON Department of Spanish and Portuguese New York University 19 University Place, 4th Floor New York, NY 10003 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Yale University, New Haven, CT. Ph.D., History of Art, 1999. Field: Modern European Art M.A., History of Art, 1993. Field: Modern European Art Boston University, Boston, MA. B.A., Summa cum laude with Honors, 1992 Major: Art History Minor: Spanish Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 1990-1991 EMPLOYMENT New York University, New York, NY Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2008-present Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, September 2012-Summer 2017 Global Coordinator, NYU Madrid (for Dept), September 2013 – Summer 2016 Affiliate Faculty, Art History and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Fall 2007 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL. Associate Professor, Art History, School of Art and Design, 2004-2007 Assistant Professor, Art History, School of Art and Design, 1998-2004 0% Appointment: Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; Program in Gender and Women's Studies; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Department of Slavic Languages and Literature Affiliated Faculty: Campus Honors Program; European Union Center; Russian and East European Center MACBA, Independent Study Programme (PEI), Visiting Professor, spring 2008 Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Art HistoryVisiting Professor, spring 2008 Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Navarra, Spain, Visiting Professor, 2002 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & HONORS Métodos de propangada activa en la Guerra Civil, MEPACT (I + D), Ministerio de Ciencia y Competitividad de España, Principal Investigator: Emilio Javier Peral Vega (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

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JORDANA MENDELSON

Department of Spanish and Portuguese New York University

19 University Place, 4th Floor New York, NY 10003

Email: [email protected] EDUCATION Yale University, New Haven, CT. Ph.D., History of Art, 1999. Field: Modern European Art M.A., History of Art, 1993. Field: Modern European Art Boston University, Boston, MA. B.A., Summa cum laude with Honors, 1992 Major: Art History Minor: Spanish Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 1990-1991 EMPLOYMENT New York University, New York, NY Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, 2008-present

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, September 2012-Summer 2017

Global Coordinator, NYU Madrid (for Dept), September 2013 – Summer 2016 Affiliate Faculty, Art History and Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Fall 2007 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), IL. Associate Professor, Art History, School of Art and Design, 2004-2007

Assistant Professor, Art History, School of Art and Design, 1998-2004 0% Appointment: Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese; Program in Gender and Women's

Studies; Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; Department of Slavic Languages and

Literature Affiliated Faculty: Campus Honors Program; European Union Center; Russian and East European Center MACBA, Independent Study Programme (PEI), Visiting Professor, spring 2008 Universitat de Barcelona, Department of Art HistoryVisiting Professor, spring 2008 Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Navarra, Spain, Visiting Professor, 2002 FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS & HONORS Métodos de propangada activa en la Guerra Civil, MEPACT (I + D), Ministerio de Ciencia y Competitividad de España, Principal Investigator: Emilio Javier Peral Vega (Universidad Complutense de Madrid).

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Finalist, “Art” category (for www.magazinesandwar.com), Webby Awards, April 2008. Finalist, “Art” category (for www.magazinesandwar.com, SxSW Interactive Festival, March 2008 University Scholar (highest honor at University of Illinois for most talented teachers, scholars and researchers),

UIUC, nominated and selected for 2007-2010 (declined) SEACEX (Sociedad Estatal de Acción Exterior), Exhibition Funding for “Other Weapons,” Summer 2007 Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and North American Universities, Exhibition Funding for “Other Weapons,” Spring 2007. Campus Research Board, Arnold O. Beckman Award (Subvention for "Other Weapons" at International Center of Photography, NY), UIUC, 2007 National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)/UIUC Faculty Fellow, 2006-2007 Faculty Research Excellence Award, College of Fine and Applied Arts, UIUC, 2006 Spain's Ministry of Education and Culture, Co-PI with Estrella de Diego (Universidad Complutense) and Julia

Domènch (NYU, Madrid), 3 year grant on visual tourism and the image of Spain, 2006-2009 Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton, NJ, member, Fall 2005 The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, Research Grant, 2004 Mellon Faculty Fellowship, UIUC, 2003 Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and North American Universities, Research Grant, 2002 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2002 European Union Center, UIUC, Research Grant, 2002 Center for Advanced Study, UIUC, Fellow, 2001 Humanities Release Time, Research Board, UIUC, 2000 William and Flora Hewlitt Summer International Grant, UIUC, 2000 Campus Research Board Grant, Scholar's Travel & Dean's Special Grant (for various projects), UIUC, 1998-2006 Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked Excellent by their Students, UIUC, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 GRADUATE FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS Whiting Foundation Fellowship, Yale University, 1997 Fulbright-Hays Award, Dissertation Research Grant, 1995 Program for Cultural Cooperation between Spain's Ministry of Culture and North American Universities, Dissertation Research Grant, 1995 Marsha Brady Tucker Fellow, Yale University Art Gallery, 1994 Andrew W. Mellon Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, 1993 Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, U.S. Department of Education, 1992-1996 PUBLICATIONS IN PREPARATION: In Circulation: Photography, Paper and the Politics of Print Culture in Spain, 1919-1939, book manuscript in progress.

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Exhibition on Miró and ADLAN (Amics de l'art nou), Co-curators Joan Minguet Batllori (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Muriel Gómez Pradas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya).for the Fundació Miró, Barcelona, tentatively scheduled for 2021. BOOKS: Encounters with the 1930s. Ed. Madrid; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and La Fábrica, 2012. (published simultaneously as Encuentros con los años 30). [432 pages] Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity. Ed with David Prochaska. Penn State University Press, 2010. Reviewed in caa.reviews by Robin Kelsey (Harvard), December 9, 2010; ARLIS/NA by Philip Dombrowsky (National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives), 2010; Fotogeschichte. Beiträge zur Geschichte und Ästhetik der Fotografie by Eva Tropper, February 2011. Revistas, Modernidad y Guerra/Magazines, Modernity and War. 2 volumes (one in Spanish and one in English). Ed. with introduction. Includes article length versions of lectures presented as part of the international, interdisciplinary symposium of the same title held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, January 2007. Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura, 2008. Magazines and War 1936-1939/Revistas y Guerra 1936-1939 (bi-lingual monograph + illustrated catalogue, bibliography, and selection of primary texts). Madrid: Ministerio de Cultura/Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2007.

Author and coordinator of accompanying web site developed with assistance from Campus Research Board and NCSA/UIUC Fellowship: www.revistasyguerra.com; www.magazinesandwar.com; website is a finalist in the “Art” category at the SxSW (South by Southwest: Interactive Festival), March 2008.

Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation 1929-1939. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2005.

Co-recipient of the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies 2007 Book Prize.

Short-listed finalist for Modernist Studies Association 2006 Book Prize. Reviewed in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Modernism/modernity, The Journal of

Modern History, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Virginia Quarterly Review, and forthcoming reviews in Revista Hispánica Moderna and Catalan Review Selections reprinted in: Public Photographic Spaces. Propaganda Exhibitions from Pressa to the Family of Man, 1928-55. Barcelona: MACBA, 2009. Translated into Spanish as: Documentar España. Los artistas, la cultura expositiva y la nación moderna 1929-1939. Trans. Elisenda Julibert and Miguel Martínez-Lage. Barcelona and Madrid: Ediciones de La Central, 2012.

Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York. Ed. with Josef Helfenstein. Champaign, IL.: Krannert Art Museum; distributed by University of Washington Press, 2001.

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Margaret Michaelis: Fotografía, Vanguardia y Política en la Barcelona de la República. Jordana Mendelson and Juan José Lahuerta with an essay by Helen Ennis. Valencia: IVAM Centro Julio Gonzàlez; Barcelona: CCCB, 1998. SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS Special annual visual arts issue of Hispanic Research Journal. Co-edited with co-authored introduction by Marjorie Trusted (Victoria Albert Museum, London) 8:5 (December 2007); 9:5 (December 2008). Recalcitrant Modernities: Spain, Difference and the Location of Modernism. Co-edited with co-authored introduction by Elena Delgado (Spanish, UIUC) and Oscar Vázquez (Art History, UIUC). Special issue of Tessarae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies13:. 2-3 (December 2007). “From Albums to the Academy: Postcards and Art History,” ed. and contributor, Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation 17:4 (2001). ARTICLES/CHAPTERS “Protest Ephemera and International Art Fairs: The ‘Mild’ Manifesting of Pablo Picasso and Alexander Calder during the Postwar” in Calder/Picasso, essay commissioned by the Musée Picasso on the occasion of the exhibition Calder/Picasso at the Musée Picasso, 2019. “Paper Fortifications: The Defense of Madrid and the Proliferation of the Press during the Civil War,” Trans. Isabel Cadenas Cañón as “Fortificaciones de papel: la defense de Madrid y la proliferación de la prensa durante la Guerra Civil,” Madrid, musa de las artes, Madrid: Museo de Arte Contemporánea, 2018. "Picasso, Miró, and Calder at the 1937 Spanish Pavilion in Paris," essay commissioned by the Calder Foundation on the occasion of the exhibition Calder and Picasso for the catalogue published by Almine Rech Gallery, 2017. “Eli Lotar’s Dissident Lens in Luis Buñuel’s Las Hurdes: Land without Bread,” commissioned article for the online magazine of the Jeu de Paume, “Le magazine”, published March 2017, in English with French translation. Link: http://lemagazine.jeudepaume.org/2017/03/jordana-mendelson-eli-lotars-dissident-lens-in-luis-bunuels-las-hurdes-land-without-bread-fren/ "Frivolities and the Seduction of Bridging Distances," Campo Cerrado: Arte español 1939-1953, exhibition catalogue, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2016, pp. 12-22. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/sites/default/files/publicaciones/textos-en-descarga/catalogo_campo_cerrado_1805.pdf "Beautiful Contradictions: News pictures and modern magazines" in Getting the Picture: The History and Visual Culture of the News, ed. Jason E. Hill and Vanessa R. Schwartz (Bloomsbury, 2015), pp. 154-160.

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"Divina. Superior: A Foreign (Avant-Garde) Audience for Advertising in Barcelona during WWI," Commissioned catalogue essay for Barcelona zona neutral, Ed. by Fèlix Fanés and Joan Minguet Batllori (Barcelon: Fundació Joan Miró, 2014). 2000 words. “Archival Excursions: Across the Atlantic and Into the Museum” for edited anthology on Contemporary Transatlantic Dialogues: Art History, Criticism, and Exhibition Practices in Spain and the United States, ed. Robert Lubar and María Dolores Jiménez-Blanco. (Madrid: CEEH, 2013). 20 pages. On-line publication: http://www.ceeh.es/media/docs/dialogos_trasatlanticos_web.pdf Reprinted in Esferas. The Undergraduate Student Journal of NYU’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese, issue 7 (May 4, 2017), pp. 135-147. “’Entre la vida y la muerte’: The High Stakes of Realism in 1930s Spain” in Años Treina: teatro de la crueldad, lugar del encuentro (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2013). 20 pages. "Episodes, Overlaps, and Dispersals: Revisiting Histories of the 1930s" in Encounters with the 1930s. Ed. Madrid; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía and La Fábrica, 2012. (published simultaneously as Encuentros con los años 30). 14 pages. “Staging a Subject: Gerda Taro’s Exploration of Civic Life in Valencia, spring 1937” in The Mexican Suitcase.Ed. Cynthia Young. (New York: International Center of Photography, 2010). "Introduction" with David Prochaska in Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity. Ed with David Prochaska. Penn State University Press, 2010. The Spanish Pavilion Paris, 1937 (Madrid: "Cuadernos Postal," La Central Librería/Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2009), pp. 3-39. “Introduction” and Dossier of selected primary articles for Desacuerdos 5. Sobre arte, políticas y ésfera pública en el Estado Español. Cultura Popular (Barcelona: MACBA, 2009). “Introduction,” Revistas, Modernidad y Guerra/Magazines, Modernity and War (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, January 2008), pp. 9-16. “Preparatory Collages and Paintings After Collage 1933” and “Drawing-Collages 1933-34” in Joan Miró (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2008). “Margaret Michaelis” in AC. La Revista del G.A.T.E.P.A.C. 1931-193. Ed. Antonio Pizza and Josep Maria Rovira (Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2008) “Las huellas de la cámara en el fotoperiodismo de Marín,” Marín (Madrid: Fundación Telefónica, 2008), pp. 137-151. “Creating a Public for Modern Architecture: Sert's Use of Images from GATCPAC to The Heart of the City" in Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design. Ed. Eric Mumford and Hashim Sarkis, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 38-53.

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with Marjorie Trusted, “Introduction” Hispanic Research Journal 8:5 (December 2007): 287-8. with Elena Delgado and Oscar Vázquez, “Introduction: Recalcitrant Modernities – Spain, Cultural Difference and the Location of Modernism,” Tessarae: Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies13: 2-3 (December 2007): 105-19. “Retrato de Rivas Cherif” and “El pintor Lekuona” in El retrato moderno en España 1906-1936, Itinerarios y Procesos, (Madrid: Fundación Santander and Real Academia de Bellas Artes, 2007). "Learning from Guernica,” Teaching Representations of the Spanish Civil War. Ed. Noël Valis, (New York: Modern Language Association, 2007), pp. 328-4. with Carmen Ripollés, "Photographs as History: The Illustrated Press during the Spanish Civil War," pp. 258-67 in Ramon Rius. Ed. Carlos Ramos, (Lleida, 2007). "Collective Archives/Individual Authority: Photography and the Misiones Pedagógicas” (translated as “Archivos colectivos y autoría individual: la fotografía y las Misiones Pedagógicas”), Misiones Pedagógicas, (Madrid, Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones Culturales, 2006), pp. 158-71. “Between Amateur and Avant-Garde: Commercial Photography in Barcelona” and “Against Logic: The Exposició Logicofobista and Surrealism in Catalonia,” Barcelona and Modernity 1868-1939, eds. William Robinson, Jordi Falgàs, and Carmen Belen Lord, (Cleveland Museum of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2006), pp. 354-60, 361-8. "Desire at the Kiosk: Publicity in Barcelona during the 1930s," Catalan Review (special issue on Barcelona and Modernity) XVIII: 1-2 (2004) [Pub. 2006]: 191-208. Contributor essayist for selected Spanish Civil War posters. Revolutionary Tides: The Art of the Political Poster 1789-1989. Ed. Jeffrey Schnapp. Milan: Skira, 2005. "'Craftsman Discovered by Photographer': Authenticity and American Art in the Twentieth Century," Bill Traylor, William Edmondson and the Modernist Impulse, ed. Josef Helfenstein, (Krannert Art Museum; distributed by University of Washington Press, 2004), pp. 107-17. "Dalí Documental," L’Avenç 292 (summer 2004): 37-41. English version appeared as "From the Banal to the Extraordinary: Dalí’s Anti-artistic Documentaries," Persistence & Memory: New Critical Perspectives on Dalí at the Centennial, eds. Hank Hine, William Jeffett and Kelly Reynolds, (Bompiani/Rizzoli, 2005), pp. 69-74. "Dalí and the City of Attractions” (translated as “Dalí y la ciudad de las atracciones”), Barcelona Metròpolis Mediterranea 63 (winter-spring 2004): 35-40. "From Photographic Fragments to Architectural Illusions at the 1929 Poble Espanyol in Barcelona," Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place, eds. D. Medina Lasansky and Brian Mclaren, (London: Berg, 2004), pp. 129-46. [Reprinted and translated in Arquitectura y turismo: Percepción, representación y lugar, eds. D. Medina Lasansky and Brian Mclaren, (Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2006)]

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"Inconspicuous Presence: The Photographer as Folklorist” (translated as “Presencia desapercibida: El fotógrafo como folklorista”), Joan Colom: Fotografías de Barcelona, 1958-1964, eds. Jorge Ribalta and David Balsells, (Madrid: Lunwerg and Fundación Telefónica, 2004), pp. 37-44. "Joan Miró's Drawing-Collage, August 8, 1933: 'Intellectual Obscenities' and the Collection of Mass Culture," The Art Journal (spring 2004): 24-29. "The Tragic Myth of Dalí and Postcards," pp. 226-31 in Dalí Mass Culture, ed. Fèlix Fanés, (Barcelona: Fundació "La Caixa," 2004). [Reprinted in English and translated into Dutch for the exhibition's appearance (It’s all Dalí) at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in 2005.] "Of Politics, Postcards, and Pornography: Salvador Dalí's Le mythe tragique de l'Angélus de Millet," Surrealism, Culture, and Politics, eds. Raymond Spiteri and Donald LaCoss, (London: Ashgate, 2003), pp. 161-78. "Architecture, Photography and (Gendered) Modernities in 1930s Barcelona," Modernism/Modernity 10: 1 (January 2003): 141-164. [Reprinted in Disciplines on the Line: Feminist Research on Spanish, Latin American, U.S. Latina Women, eds. Anne J. Cruz, Rosilie Hernández-Pecoraro, and Joyce Tolliver, (Newark, Delware: Juan de la Cuesta-Hispanic Monographs, 2003).] "Madrid-Moscow: The City Imagined in the Pages of Some Illustrated Magazines" (translated as “Madrid-Moscow La ciudad imaginada en las páginas de algunas revistas ilustradas”), Manuel Sánchez Arcas, ed. Carlos Sambricio, (Madrid: Fundación COAM, 2003), pp. 77-87. [Winner for the Best Book Published by Private Initiative, "Historia e Investigación Urbana," XVIII Premios de Urbanismo, Arquitectura y Obra Pública de 2003, Ayuntamiento de Madrid.] "La imagen de España en la década de 1930: Paradoja del documental e impulso etnográfico en la obra de José Val del Omar y Luis Buñuel,” Galaxia Val de Omar, trans. Sara Font, ed. Gonzalo Sáenz de Buruaga, (Madrid: Instituto Cervantes, 2002), pp. 18-57. [Reprinted in Val del Omar y las Misiones Pedagógicas, ed. Gonzalo Sáenz de Buruaga, (Murcia: Regíon de Murcia; Madrid: Residencia de Estudiantes, 2003).] "Introduction: Postcards from Albums to the Academy?" Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation XVII:4 (2001): 373-381. "Sailors, Bullfighters & Dancers: Lipchitz and Spain" and "Commentary: Ramón Gómez de la Serna," Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York, eds. Josef Helfenstein and Jordana Mendelson, (Krannert Art Museum & Washington U.P., 2001), pp. 13-26, 139-40. "'Las Misiones Pedagógicas en la prensa de 1935 a1938," trans. Marga González, Boletín Institución Libre de Enseñanza (Madrid), no. 40-41 (February 2001): 61-79. with Estrella de Diego, "Political Practice and the Arts in Spain," Art and Journals on the Political Front, 1910-1940, ed. Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt, (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997), pp. 183-214.

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"Contested Territory: The Politics of Geography in Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes: Tierra sin Pan," Locus Amœnus (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) 2 (1996): 229-242. REVIEW ESSAYS "Centennial Revisions: Luis Buñuel's Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan," Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (London) 1:2 (2000): 215-223. BOOK REVIEWS Ginés Garrido, Mélnikov en París, 1925 in Slavic Review vol. 73, no. 1 (Spring 2014): 226-227. Susan Larson and Eva Woods, eds. Visualizing Spanish Modernity in Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos (2007). Esther Raventós-Pons, Rupturas Espaciales: Palabra e imagen en textos catalanes postfranquistas in Catalan Review XVIII: 1-2 (2004) [Pub. 2006], 304-7. Josep M. Rovira, José Luis Sert 1901-1983; and Jan K. Birksted, Modernism and the Mediterranean: The Maeght Foundation in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 64:4 (December 2005): 584-6. Jo Labanyi, Ed., Constructing Identity in Contemporary Spain. Theoretical Debates and Cultural Practice; and Susan Kirkpatrick, Mujer, modernismo y vanguardia en España (1898-1931) in Modernism/Modernity 11:3 (September 2004): 17-20. Helen-Chantal Pike, Greetings from New Jersey. A Postcard Tour of the Garden State in Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation 18:4 (December 2002): 314-318. Selma Reuben Holo, Beyond the Prado: Museums and Identity in Democratic Spain in Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies (London) 3:2 (September 2002): 253-258. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS "Photography & the Problem of Rural Spain in the 1930s: Buñuel's Tierra sin pan & its Visual Context," Buñuel, siglo XXI, Coord. Isabel Santaolalla et. al. (Zaragoza: Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2004). "Touring Spain: Four Scenes of Literacy and Mapping," pp. 139-48 in Arquitectura, ciudad e ideología antiurbana. Actas preliminares. Pamplona, 14/15 Marzo 2002 (Navarra: Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Navarra, 2002). EXHIBITIONS Consultant, Reinstallation of the Permanent Collection, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, spring 2018-present Invited Head Curator, “Encounters with the 1930s,” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, October 2012-January 2013. Directed team of co-curators in major international

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exhibition. Coordinated exhibition catalogue and edited selection of essays. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/encounters-1930s Consultant for reinstallation of galleries around Picasso’s Guernica. Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, spring 2009 (reinstallation planned for May 2009). Research Advisor, “The Universal Archive: The Condition of the Document and Modern Photographic Utopia,” Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, February-March 2008. https://www.macba.cat/en/exhibition-universal-archive Curator, “Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture during the Spanish Civil War,” New York: International Center of Photography, September 2007-January 2008. Major funding through SEACEX (Sociedad Estatal para la Acción Cultural Exterior), Madrid and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. https://www.icp.org/exhibitions/other-weapons-photography-and-print-culture-during-the-spanish-civil-war Curator, “Revistas y Guerra 1936-1939/Magazines and War 1936-1939," Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, January-April 2007; Valencia: Museu Valencià de la Il.lustració i de la Modernitat, July-September 2007. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/exposiciones/revistas-guerra-1936-1939 Reviewed extensively in Spanish press on occasion of both Madrid and Valencia openings. Symposium organized to accompany opening of exhibition in Madrid (see above under publications and below under symposia). Co-curator, "Margaret Michaelis: Fotografía, Vanguardia y República en la Barcelona de la República," Valencia: Institut Valencià d’Art Modern Centro Julio Gonzàlez; Barcelona: Centre de Cultural Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain, 1998-99. https://www.ivam.es/en/publicaciones/margaret-michaelis/ Curator, "The Spanish Civil War in Print: Selections from Yale University," New Haven, CT: Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University, February-March, 1998. Exhibitions at UIUC/Krannert Art Museum Curator, “Surrealist Interventions: Selections from the Krannert Art Museum and the University of Illinois Library,” Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, August-December 2006. Curator (with student curators from Arth 391), "Laws of Abstraction," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, January-March 2005. Curator, "The Spirit of Mediterranean Pathos: The Early Work of Pierre Daura," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, August-November, 2003. Curator (with student curators from Arthi 291), "Creativity in Print: Artistic Interactions through the Work of Edward Weston," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, January-April 2003.

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Curator, "Architectural Scenes: Photography, Buildings and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, March-August 2001; I-Space, Chicago, November-December 2001. INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Scrapbooking Modernity: Adelita Lobo and the Administration of Modernity in Barcelona in the 1930s,” Language, Image, Power: Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, October 2019. “Un anuncio y cinco cartas: Visual economies of paper in 1930s Spain,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Rutgers University, April 3, 2019. “Provocations on Paper: Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí in NYC, “ Huber Colloquium on the Arts and Visual Culture of Spain and the Colonial Americas, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, March 7, 2019. “Provocations on Paper: Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí in NYC,” Panel presentation, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, November 2018. “Paper and the Visual Culture of Modernity in Barcelona during the 1930s” Invited Lecture and Faculty Workshop, Trinity College, Hartford, April 20, 2018. “Provocations in Paper: The Catalan Avant-Garde in NYC,” Invited speaker for symposium “America as Theater of Spanish Modernity,” Dartmouth College, October 26, 2017. Moderator, Panel with Sandy Calder and Joan Punyet Miró on the occasion of the Constellations series opening at Pace and Acquavella Galleries, Morgan Library, NYC, April 18, 2017 “Paper Traces of the Avant-Garde in 1930s Spain,“ “Romance Studies Speakers” Series, Invited by the Romance Studies Graduate Student Association, Cornell University, Public lecture and workshop, April 13-14, 2017 Film presentation as part of Series: “Distant Touch: José Val del Omar a retrospective,” Anthology Film Archives, NYC, March 19, 2017. “Margaret Michaelis in Barcelona: Photographic Conventions and the Erasure of Difference,” speaker in symposium “Kati Horna and Women Photographers in Exile,” Institute of Fine Arts (co-sponsored by Americas Society), November 9, 2016. “Avant-garde/Elite: Promoting New Art in the 1930s,” Modern Spanish Art from the Asociación Colección Arte Contemporáneo, Meadows Art Museum, Dallas, TX, October 7, 2016. "Sou Invitat, You're Invited: Elite Ephemera and the Social Construction of New Art in Barcelona during the 1930s," Keynote Speaker, "The Ephemera and What Remains: Things, absences, networks," NYU/Columbia Graduate Conference, April 22-23, 2016.

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"Albums and/as Magazines: The Commissariat de Propaganda's Photo Albums and the Design of the Picture Press during the Spanish Civil War," Print Matters: Histories of Photography in Illustrated Magazines, New York Public Library, April 8-9, 2016. "Álbumes y/como revistas: los álbumes fotográficos de la Commissariat de Propaganda y el diseño de la prensa ilustrada durante la Guerra Civil Española," Congreso Internacional Cultura y Guerra Civil: Formas de propaganda dentro y fuera de España , Facultad de Filología, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, April 4-6, 2016. (Paper in English) "Up in Smoke: Paper, Publicity, and the Avant-Garde in Barcelona," Keynote address, Tradition and Transition in the Spanish Avant-Garde, Graduate Student Conference, University of Michigan, Ann-Arbor, April 10-11, 2015. "In Circulation: Histories of Photography in Spain," Brown University, April 17, 2014. "The Iconicity of the Masses, and the Mass Appeal of an Icon: The Funeral of Buenaventura Durruti," for the symposium "Death of the Charismatic Leader," University of Belfast, April 4, 2014. "Magazines and the Visual Culture of War in Barcelona," Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Department of Art, and Department for Comparative Literature, University of Toronto, March 17, 2014. "Joan Miró: Paper/Painting as Encounter in Modern Spanish Art," Hispanic Studies Antonio Márquez Lecture Series, Vassar College, October 25, 2013. Film presentation, Cinema Català at Columbia University (presentation of film and discussion facilitator), December 5, 2012. Curatorial Round Table, Encuentros con los años 30, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, October 2012. “An Episodic History of Modern Art in Spain: Documentary Practices and International Dialogues,” Lecture Series, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Madison, Wisconsin, March 15, 2012. "Palimpsests: Documentary Practices and International Dialogue as Modern Art in the Second Republic," The Spanish Republic, 80 Years Later: A Symposium, University of Colorado, Boulder, April 23, 2011 (submitted and read at conference in my absence). "Following Pictures: The Porous Divide between the Museum, the Archive, and the Academy" Keynote lecture, 7th Annual International Graduate Student Symposium, University of Oregon, Eugene, April 21, 2011 (cancelled for family health emergency). Round Table Participant by invitation by Students and Emerging Professionals Committee, "Publishing from the Dissertation: Advice for the Tenure Track and the Job Market," College Art Association Annual Conference, February 12, 2011.

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"Flipping the Page, Gazing at Images: Thoughts on Writing an Interdisciplinary and Intermedia History of Spanish Civil War Magazines," Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), Birkbeck College, University of London, November 19, 2010. "The everyday lives of the Catalan avant-garde, from postcards and magazines to cafés and cocktails," as part of the two-day colloquium "New Publics, New Citizens: Cultural Interpellations in Pre-War Spain," Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University (sponsored by Institut Ramon Llull), November 4, 2010. "History on Display: Context, Controversy, and Picasso's Guernica," as part of the series "Lives, History, Memory. The Spanish Civil War 70 Years After," University of Washington, Seattle, May 25, 2010. "Reframing the Document: The Manifesto/Portraits of Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel in the 1930s," Keynote lecture for "In/Between Conference: Thoughts on Literature and Language," Foreign and Classic Languages, University of Illinois, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, April 23, 2010. Moderator and presenter ("Magazines as discursive spaces") for Symposium on Worker Photography, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, January 2010. “Exhibiting the 1930s: Photography, Print Culture, and Modernity.” “Speaking on Photography” Series. Concordia University, Montréal, November 5, 2009. Invited Conference Respondent, MoMA Miró symposium (in conjunction with Miró Scholars’ Day on November 11, 2008), January 10, 2009. “Arte y propaganda: El rol de la prensa ilustrada durante la guerra civil,” MNCARS, December 12, 2008. “Dalí, Buñuel, and Documentary Surrealism in Spain,” SUNY Purchase, November 18, 2008. “Week With…” (Public Lecture and Graduate Seminar), Department of Romance Languages, Washington University, St. Louis, October 29-31, 2008. “Propaganda and the Spanish Civil War,” Department of Spanish, University of Notre Dame, August 2008. “Las huellas de la cámara en el fotoperiodismo de Marín,” Lecture Series for exhibition on Ramón Marín, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, January 18, 2008. Round Table Discussion, “Memory Wars,” King Juan Carlos I Center, NYU, September 2008. "The Artist and the Intellectual in a Time of Social and Political Upheaval," Presentation and Round Table discussion with Casey Blake (Columbia U.) and Joshua Brown (CUNY) on the occasio nof the exhibition “Facing Fascism,” The Museum of the City of New York, June 5, 2007.

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"La consagració del barri Xino. Entre la construcció d'un mite i la denúncia social (in Spanish)," as part of the course "La construcció fotogràfica de Barcelona," organized by Jorge Ribalta (MACBA) and Joan Roca (ICE), Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, May 7, 2007. "Dalí, Buñuel y documental en España durante los años 30," Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, May 4, 2007. "Scratching the Surface: Dalí, Buñuel and 1930s Documentary in Spain," Department of Spanish and Portuguese, New York University, March 6, 2007. "Propaganda Laboratories: Spanish Artists and Civil War," King Juan Carlos I Center, New York University, November 21, 2006. “Object Suicide: Delmiro de Caralt’s Memmortigo? and Amateur Cinema in Barcelona,” 8th Modernist Studies Association Conference, Tulsa, Oklahoma, October 19-22, 2006. “Wartime Vernaculars: Photographs and Press during the Spanish Civil War,” Wellesley College, October 13, 2006. "From the Page to the Wall: Artists in Print during the Spanish Civil War," Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University, October 3, 2006. 2nd German-American Frontiers of Humanities Symposium, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Hamburg, Germany, 2005, participant. "Critical Judgment and Print Culture: The Periódico Mural during the Spanish Civil War," Disciplining Discourses: Contact, Conflict, Conversation and Issues of Authority in Spanish Cultural and Intellectual Life 1870-1950 (CRASSH sponsored conference organized by Alison Sinclair), Cambridge University, May 27-28, 2005. "From the Studio to the Front, and Back Again: Art Criticism during the Spanish Civil War," Vanguardias hispánicas: más allá de los "ismos," University of Toronto, Canada, April 8-9, 2005. "Propaganda Laboratories: Art, Magazines and War in Spain 1936-1939," Northwestern University, April 4, 2005; Southern Methodist University, November 17, 2005. "In Exile: Photography and Modernity in Barcelona," Rutgers University, March 31, 2005. "Return Trips: Photography, Memory, and Sense of Place," Center for the Humanities, UM-St. Louis, February 28, 2005. "Pintando Postales: Dalí y la Política del Kitsch," Salvador Dalí: Arte, antiarte y surrealismo, CUIMPB Centre Ernest Lluch, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, September 16, 2004.

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Respondent (Intervention), "Lectures on Ordinariness/Conferencias alrededor de lo cotidiano," Encuentros PHE (Photo España). II Debates en torno a la fotografía/IIDiscussions around Photography, Madrid, June 14-15, 2004. "Reading for Images: Modern Artists and the Illustrated Press during the Spanish Civil War," Modernism and Modernity Workshop, Depauw University, April 30-May 1, 2004. "Cómo Conducir a la Multitud: Publicity and Modernity in Barcelona during the 1930s," Harvard University (Barcelona i la modernitat/Barcelona and Modernity), April 2004. "Locating Spanish Civil War Magazines: From the Printing Press to the Street," Print Culture and the City, McGill University, March 2004. "Documental Dalí," Persistence & Memory: New Critical Perspectives on Dalí at the Centennial, Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, March 2004. "What an Architect Needs: Photography and the Promotion of Modern Architecture and Urbanism," Josep Lluis Sert: The Architect of Urban Design 1953-1969, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, October 2003. "Artists, Hybrid Media and the Politics of Public Display: The 'Periódico-Mural' in the Spanish Civil War," Second William A. Kern Conference on Visual Communication, Rochester, New York, April 2003. "A Public Viewing: Magazines as 'Propaganda Laboratories' in Spain, 1936-1939," Modernist Studies Association, Madison, Wisconsin, November 2002. "Touring Spain: Four Scenes of Literacy and Mapping," Arquitectura, ciudad e ideología antiurbana, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Universidad de Navarra, March 2002. "From Photographic Fragments to Architectural Illusions: The Poble Espanyol at the 1929 Exposition in Barcelona," 90th College Art Association Conference, Philadelphia, February 2002. "From Menjant Garotes (1930) to Tierra sin pan (1933): The Challenge of Rural Culture in Luis Buñuel's Documentary Practice," Instituto Cervantes, Chicago, November 30, 2001 "Documentary: Institutional and Avant-garde," Modernist Studies Association, Houston, October 2001. "Joan Miró's Drawing-Collages: Postcards and Music Halls in 1930s Barcelona, " Mid-West Art Historians Association Conference, Minneapolis, April 2001. "Drawing the Lines between Politics and Poetics in 1930s Barcelona: Joan Miró's 1933 Drawing-Collages," Modernist Studies Association Conference, Philadelphia, October 2000. "Photography & the Problem of Rural Spain in the 1930s: Buñuel's Tierra sin pan & its Visual Context," Buñuel 2000 Conference, London, September 2000.

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"Buñuel's Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan: Documentary and Difference in Spain during the 1930s," Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, Chicago, IL, March 2000. "Revisiting Archives, Defending the Republic: Photomurals at the Spanish Pavilion, Paris 1937, " 88th College Art Association Conference, New York, February 2000. "'Like a Pornographic Postcard': Dalí, Politics, and the Angelus," Colloquium on Spanish Art, Institute of Fine Arts, New York, February 1999. "Between Anonymity and Memory: Margaret Michaelis and International Photography in the 1920s & 1930s," Round Table, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, February 1999. "Las Hurdes: Tierra sin Pan de Luis Buñuel: las costuras y puntadas de lo político," El Surrealismo en España, Fundación Duques de Soria, III Seminario de Historia del Arte, Soria, Spain, July 1994. CONFERENCES (Organizer) "Encounters with the 1930s," two-day international symposium at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Organized and moderated all four round tables, March 11-12, 2011. “The Condition of the Document and Modern Photographic Utopia,” two-day international symposium organized for the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, March 7-8, 2008. “Magazines, Modernity, and War,” two-day international symposium organized for the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, January 17-18, 2007. "Modernist Studies Workshop," regional two-day interdisciplinary workshop co-organized with Mac Mackenzie (Depauw University), September 16-17, 2005 "Recalcitrant Modernities: Spain, Difference, and the Construction of European Modernism," with Elena Delgado (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) and Oscar Vázquez (Art and Design) UIUC international conference, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois (http://www.sip.uiuc.edu/modernity/index.htm), September 26-27, 2003 PANELS (Organizer) “Seamstresses, Film Stars, Artists and Secretaries: Women Make Modernity in Brazil and Spain,” Panel Organizer and Chair, Language, Image, Power: Luso-Hispanic Cultural Studies Theory and Practice Conference, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, October 2019. “Artists, Prestige and Trans-Atlantic Print Culture,” Panel Organizer, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, November 2018. “Photography and Print Culture,” Seminar Organizer, Modernist Studies Association Annual Conference, Columbus, OH, November 2018.

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“De cara al público: Art as propaganda in Republican Spain (1931-1939),” Chair, College Art Association Annual Conference, February 15, 2017. "The 1930s,” Chair and Organizer, College Art Association Annual Conference, Los Angeles, February 2012. “Women and the Spanish Civil War,” Moderator and organizer of Round Table discussion with Temma Kaplan (Rutgers), Jo Labanyi (NYU), Kristen Lubben (International Center of Photography), and Kathleen Vernon (SUNY Stony Brook) at King Juan Carlos I Center, NYU, co-sponsored by ICP on occasion of fall exhibitions on Spanish Civil War, November 15, 2007. "Modernist Excess," Seminar Organizer and Leader, Modernist Studies Association Conference, Chicago, November 2005. "Modern Ephemera: The Pleasures of Popular Culture in Spain around the Turn of the Century," Modernist Studies Association Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October 2004. "Comparative Studies in Print Culture: Artists, Promotion & Propaganda," Modernist Studies Association Conference, Madison, Wisconsin, November 2002. "Hispanic Modernisms," New Modernisms 3 Conference (Modernist Studies Association), Houston, Texas, October 2001. "From Albums to the Academy: Postcards and Art History." 89th CAA Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 2001. "Modernity and Tradition in Spain, 1898-1945. " with Miriam Basilio (Art History/Museum Studies, NYU), 86th CAA Annual Conference, Toronto, February 1998. PUBLIC LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS Book presenter for Aurélie Vialette, Intellectual Philanthropy: The Seduction of the Masses, Book Culture, New York City, March 1, 2019. Presenter, “Paper and the Creation of an Audience for Modern Art in 1930s Barcelona,” 3rd Thursday Series, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU, March 20, 2018. Respondent, Panel on “Politics, Consumerism, Tourism and Culture: Picasso’s Guernica” for Symposium on “Art and Power: From Museum to Real World,” King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU, November 18, 2017. Respondent, Round table discussion “The Exterminating Angel. Luis Buñuel and Thomas Adès,” Remarque Institute, NYU, October 20, 2017. Respondent, Round table discussion, Seminar: “The American Exploits of ‘Residentes’ in United States and México: Moreno Villa, Loca, Dali, and Buñuel,” Instituto Cervantes, New York, May 23, 2016.

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"Entre la vida y la muerte: What Spanish Civil War Ephemera Can Tell Us about the Thresholds of Realism and War," panel presentation for "Left, Left, Left, Right, Left: The Spanish Civil War and Visual Culture," organized by James Fernández (NYU), KJCC, March 6, 2015. “Visions de guerra i de reraguarda: Agustí Centelles and the Catalan Press during the War,” Symposium on Centelles, KJCC, NYU, November 30, 2011. Moderator, “Emotional Cultures in Spain from the Enlightenment to the Present,” KJCC, NYU, April 14 & 15, 2011. Moderator, “Contemporary Transatlantic Dialogues: Art History, Criticism, and Exhibition Practices in Spain and the United States, IFA, NYU, April 1-2, 2011. Introduction to film, "Las Hurdes: Tierra sin pan" as part of series "De Tierras y Miradas: El Espacio Rural en el Cine Español", organized by Eduardo Hernández Cano and José Losada Montero, CUNY Graduate Center, February 17, 2011. Organizer and participant, "Postcards: New Research and Reflections," a round table discussion to celebrate the publication of Postcards: Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, ed. Jordana Mendelson and David Prochaska and Folk Photography: The American Real-Photo Postcard, 1905-10930 by Luc Sante, co-sponsored by the NYU Humanities Initiative and the International Center of Photography, October 12, 2010. Fund raising event for Abraham Lincoln Brigade to celebrate opening of "Mexican Suitcase" Exhibit at International Center of Photography, presenter on the importance of the Spanish Civil War and the history of photojournalism, September 21, 2010 (held at private residence in support of ALBA) Round Table Participant for Book Presentation on Muralnomad by Romy Golan, Casa Italiana (co-sponsored by Maison Française and Casa Italiana, NYU), February 16, 2010. "Amateur, Autor, Avant-garde," Round-table on 50 Years of Spanish Cinema, co-sponsored by the Anthology Film Archives, King Juan Carlos I Center, February 18, 2010. “Literature and Visual Culture: A Conversation about Methodology,” Comparative Literature Colloquium, NYU, November 20, 2009. Book Presentation: Robert Davidson, Jazz Age Barcelona. King Juan Carlos I Center, NYU, October 9, 2009. “Rastrear la fotografía: Una historia incompleta de la cultura fotográfica y página impresa en la España del siglo XX,” Department of Spanish and Portuguese Colloquium, NYU, May 6, 2008. “Miró and Mass Culture,” Visual Arts Forum, NYU, April 18, 2008. “Spanish Civil War Posters,” Bobst Library, NYU, December 5, 2008

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Gallery talks, “Other Weapons: Photography and Print Culture,” ICP, New York, October 3 and October 19, 2007. Chair, “Rethinking Czech Modernism,” 8th Annual Czech Workshop, UIUC, March 31, 2007. "On Photography: A Panel on Contemporary Art," Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, February 1, 2007. "Art in the Trenches: The Print Shop as Studio during the Spanish Civil War," Society of Art History and Archaeology, UIUC, February 1, 2007. Presentation of screenings for "Surrealist Film Series," Krannert Art Museum, September 28 & October 19, 2006. Participant, "Gallery Conversation with Josef Helfenstein/Colloquium on Traylor and Edmondson," Krannert Art Museum, October 27, 2004. Coordinator and Moderator, "Forum on Women in the Arts," Krannert Art Museum, October 19, 2004. "Locating Artists, Politics, and Publics during War: Spanish Civil War Magazines 1936-1939," Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Colloquium, December 2003. "Picasso and the 'Propaganda Laboratory' of the Spanish Civil War," Interim Crossing Borders Public Lecture Program on "Conflict and Combat in the Arts," UIUC, April 2003. Co-coordinator w/Dana Rush (Art History Program), "Colloquium on Adolph Gottlieb's Pictographs and the Collection that Inspired Them," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, February 2003. Coordinator, "Louise Bourgeois Colloquium," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, May 2002. Gallery talks: "Creativity in Print," spring 2003; "Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York," fall 2001; "Architectural Scenes: Photography, Buildings and Culture in the 19th and 20th Centuries," spring 2001, Krannert Art Museum, UIUC. Coordinator, "Jacques Lipchitz Colloquium," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, November 2001. Panel discussion with Rabbi Neumann on "Artists in Exile," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, October 2001. Panel discussion, "Dialogue on Toulouse-Lautrec," Krannert Art Museum, UIUC, May 2001. "Modern Photographs: Women and Architecture in 1930s Spain," Feminist Scholarship Series, Women's Studies Program, UIUC, February 2001. "Framing Domesticity, Anonymously: A Female Photographer in 1930s Barcelona," participant presentation at Feminismos Symposium on Gender and Hispanism, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, UIUC, November 1999.

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TEACHING New York University Graduate Seminars NYU: Transmission (Co-taught with Dylon Robbins), spring 2019 ABD Workshop I, spring 2019 ABD Workshop II, fall 2018, fall 2019 Dissertation Writing Seminar, spring 2017 Ephemera, Frivolity, and the Inconsequential: Mass Culture and the Avant-garde (cross-listed IFA, Gallatin, Draper), fall 2015 Art as Engagement (cross-listed IFA), fall 2014 Surrealism in Spain, fall 2011 Magazines, spring 2011 The 1930s, spring 2010 Artists’ Writings/Writings about Art, fall 2008, fall 2013 Exhibiting Spain, fall 2007 Undergraduate Courses NYU: Senior Honors Thesis Seminar, fall 2015, fall 2016 Topics: Histories of Photography in Latin America and Spain, spring 2015 [Histories of Photography in Latin America and Spain, now with own course number, fall 2016] Barcelona, fall 2012, fall 2014, spring 2016 (as Advanced Honors Seminar), spring 2017, fall 2019 Cultures and Contexts: Spain, spring 2012, spring 2013, spring 2014, fall 2018 Spain in New York, summer 2011 Freshman Honors Seminar: Barcelona, fall 2009, fall 2011 Introduction to Spanish Culture, spring 2009, fall 2009 History of Spanish Art 1898 to the Present (cross listed with Art History as Topics), spring 2009, spring 2013, team-taught with Professor Miriam Basilio, art history, spring 2016, fall 2018 Trans-Atlantic Avant-gardes, fall 2008, spring 2010, spring 2012, fall 2013 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998-2007) Graduate Seminars UIUC: Artists and War (Spain 1936-1939), spring 2007 Designing the Avant-garde, spring 2004 War in Print: Traumatic Photography and History, fall 2003 Mass Culture and Modern Art in early 20th-century Europe, spring 2003 Photography & History, spring 2002 Gendering Area Studies: Art and the Boundaries of Identity, (Ford Foundation seminar at UIUC), spring-summer 2000 Photography, Culture & Modernity between the Wars, spring 2000 Theory and Methodology of Art History, fall 1998 Undergraduate Courses UIUC: Junior Seminar (Disciplining Photography: Theories, Methods, and Institutions), spring 2005

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The Worlds of Museums & the Cultures of Collecting: A Theoretical and Practical Introduction, Campus Honors Program, fall 2002, fall 2004 Art Appreciation, spring 2001 Spanish Art from the 1890s to the present, spring 2000, spring 2002, fall 2003, spring 2007 Gendering Area Studies: Art and the Boundaries of Identity, (Ford Foundation seminar at UIUC), fall 1999-summer 2000 Surrealism, fall 1999, fall 2002, fall 2004, fall 2006 History of Photography, spring 1999, spring 2001, fall 2002, fall 2004, fall 2006 Mass Culture and Modern Art in early 20th-century Europe, spring 1999 Art and Politics between the Wars, fall 1998, spring 2003 Yale University (Graduate Teaching) Head Teaching Fellow, Experience of Modernity, Professors Esther da Costa Meyer and Romy Golan, spring 1995 Teaching Fellow, Introduction to the History of Art, Professor Vincent Scully, fall 1994 Teaching Fellow, History of Western Art from Renaissance to the Present, Professors Romy Golan and Christopher Wood, spring 1994 GRADUATE AND UNDERGRADUATE ADVISING New York University (2007-present) Ph.D. Advisees (NYU): Michel Otayek (Spanish & Portuguese), “Photography, Exile, and Emancipation: Kati Horna, Grete Stern, and Postwar Avant-Gardism in Mexico and Argentina,” spring 2015-will defend May 2019. Camila Moreiras-Vilarós (Spanish & Portuguese), Co-advisor, “Registering Vision: Saturation, Surveillance and the Contemporary Image in Spain and Mexico,” defended May 2017. Emmy Smith Ready (Spanish & Portuguese), “La Renaixença in New/Nueva/Nova York: An Exploration of Catalan Immigrant Print Culture,” defended summer 2016. Eduardo Hernández Cano (Spanish & Portuguese), Co-advisor, "Palabras sobre imágenes: Autoridad intelectual, ensayo y cultura visual de masas en España (1927-1937)," defended September 2015. Lori Cole (Comparative Literature), spring 2009-2012. Post-doctoral fellow at Brandeis University; APFF, Draper College, NYU, currently Associate Director and Clinical Associate Professor, XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement, NYU Ph.D. Committee Member (NYU): Juan Menchero (Spanish & Portuguese), in progress Cristina Colmena (Spanish & Portuguese), “Fuera de campo: ficciones, afectos y apropriaciones en los bordes de la imagen. Documental y fotografía en España y Latinoamérica,” defended September 2019.

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Pablo La Parra Pérez (Spanish & Portuguese), “Displaced Cinema: Militant Film Culture and Political Dissidence in Spain (1966-1982),” defended September 2018. Alexander Pérez-Heredia (Spanish & Portuguese), defended September 6, 2016. Isabel Cadenas Cañón (Spanish & Portuguese), defended August 25, 2016. María Agustina Monasterio (Spanish & Portuguese), "Contribuciones de sangre: Subalternity, Post-Slavery, and Necropolitics between Cuba, Morocco and Spain (1868-1936), defended May 2016. Susanna Temkin (Institute for Fine Arts, NYU), "Una arte social y revolucionario (A Social and Revolutionary Art): Marcelo Pogolotti and the International Avant-Garde," defended May 2016. Vanessa Ceia, (Spanish & Portuguese), "Bodies of the Movida: Imagining Identity in Transitional Spain (1976-1988), defended August 2015. Marta Kaluza (Spanish & Portuguese), "Philosophical and Aesthetic Aberrations in Witold Gombrowicz's Ferdydurke," defended 2015. Melcion Mateu-Adrover (Spanish & Portuguese), " La rosa en las tinieblas: Dau al Set, Postismo y la vanguardia latente (1945-1953)," defended April 21, 2014 Sarah Thomas (Spanish & Portuguese), defended May 2, 2013 Pia Leighton (Spanish & Portuguese), defended May 17, 2012 Danielle Carlo (Spanish & Portuguese), defended April 5, 2012 Andrew Lee (History), defended October 2011 Alma Leonor Mora (Spanish & Portuguese), fall 2007-present Beth Merfish (IFA), spring 2011-present External Ph.D. Advisees/Committees: Lia Dykstra, "Exhibiting the Medieval: Iberian Expositions and Medieval Architecture," Brown University,defenedd May 2019. María Cecila Llorens Lastra, “Las misiones pedagógicas de la II República (1931-1936). Modernidad, ruralidad y vanguardia en la España contemporánea,” Universitat Pomeu Fabra, Barcelona, defended January 8, 2019. Enrique Fibla Gutiérrez, “A Pedagogical Impulse: Noncommercial Film Cultures in Spain (1931-1936),” Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University, defended October 22, 2018. Pablo García Martínez, “Dissonant Modernities (1939-1959): Intellectuals and national cultures exiled to Buenos Aires after the Spanish Civil War,” CUNY Graduate Center, defended May 2018. Irene García Chacón, “Trazos compartidos: el género epistolary ilustrado y las vanguardia(s) en España,” Universidad Complutense, Madrid, External Evaluator, defended September 2017. Maite Barragan, “Mediating Modernity: Visual Culture and Class in Madrid, 1926-1936,” Temple University, defended May 2017. Carles Ferrando Valero, "Realismo mágico: Arte y narrativa vanguardista en España (1925-1936)", University of Colorado, Boulder, scheduled to defend April 2016. Laura Connor, "The Frame in Spanish Realist Narrative and Art," Harvard University, defended May 2014. Ana Tallone, Department of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, "A Light in the Darkness: Argentinian Photography during the MIlitary Dictatorship (1976-1983)," defended May 2015. Emily Evans, "Soviet Foto and the Search for Proletarian Photography, 1926-1937," Program in Art History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, defended February 10, 2014 Fernando Herrero Matoses, "Antonio Saura, Allegories of the Modern Spanish Tradition," University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, defended December 17, 2013

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Gayle Rogers, Northwestern University, defended May 2008 B.A. Honors Thesis Advisees (NYU): Ana Lopes, B.A., May 2018, “Decolonizing Junctures: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Change at the Museum of Modern Art and El Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires,” DURF grant, winter 2017. Maura Reinbrecht, B.A., May 2017, DURF grant, winter 2016. Remington Stuck, B.A., May 2016, FAST grant (DURF), summer 2014; now graduate student at Brown University. Melissa Bazydlo, B.A. May 2015, Children's literature under Franco (won two DURF grants, including being named the Angelica Foundation Research Scholar for 2014), for health reasons Mel was unable to complete her thesis for honors but she did submit her paper in fulfillment of an independent study credit. Lou Gemunden, B.A. May 2013, photographer Greta Sterm Cody Lipton, B.A. May 2013, representations of children in the Spanish Civil War Kristen Brooks, B.A. May 2011, “Redefining Agustín Ibarrola: Three Studies in Wood,” (co-advising with Jo Labanyi) Lindsey Thomas, B.A. December 2010, writing on the Spanish Civil War magazine Ahora; works for Time-Out New York Abigail Lapin, B.A. May 2010, writing on Chilean artist Cienfuegos and his interpretation of Diego Velázquez's Las Meninas; MA from the IFA; PhD student at CUNY Graduate Center. University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1998-2007) Ph.D. Advisees (UIUC): Gisela Carbonell-Coll, Dissertation Advisor, “Salvador Dalí in America,” 2002-2008 Guisela Latorre, Dissertation Advisor, "Chicana/o Murals of California: Indigenist Aesthetics and the Politics of Space, 1970-2000," 1998-2003; Assistant Professor, Chicano Studies Department, UCSB (2003-2007); currently Assistant Professor, Women’s Studies, Ohio State University. Stacy Smith, Dissertation Advisor (Belgian Surrealism), 2003-present Ph.D. Committee Member (UIUC): Corinne Anderson, Comparative Literature, "Representing the Subject: An Interdisciplinary Study of Women's Autobiography, Self-Portraiture, and Autoethnography," defended April 2002; currently Assistant Professor at Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama. Iker González-Allende, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, “Género y nación en la narrativa vasca durante la guerra civil española (1936-1939),” defended April 2, 2007. María del Mar González González, “(Re)inventing a Latin/o American Identity: The Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latino Americano y del Caribe, 1970-2001,” 2006-present Jia Jia, Institute for Communications Research, "Remaking China Dolls: Imitation as a Visual Rhetoric in Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production,” defended May 1, 2006. Eun Young Jung, Art History, “The Legacies of Marcel Duchamp and Vladimir Tatlin in Dan Flavin’s Fluorescent Light Installations of the 1960s,” defended May 10, 2006. Jordana Moore-Sagasse, “The Language of Jean-Michel Basquiat,” defended June 6, 2008. Lorraine Morales-Menar, Art History, "Embracing the Fragmented Self: The Paintings of Jörg Immendorff," defended May 2001; now Assistant Professor, Union College, New York.

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Jordi Olivar, PhD committee member, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, "Reading Barcelona: Conceptualizations of Urban Discourses and Social Spatiality (1854-1888)," defended 2009. Toni Prado, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, "El porvenir de una revuelta: Visiones Anarco-Feministas de la mujer en La Revista Blanca (1898-1905/1923-1936),” defended May 8, 2006. Carmen Ripollés, Art History, 2006-present. Lisa Roberts Sepi, Art History, ""Metaphysics and Materiality: Landscape Painting and the Art of Kay WalkingStick," defended September 16, 2005. Maria Isabel Silva, Institute for Communications Research, 2004-present Li-lin Tseng, Art History, "Spectatorship in Early Chinese Film and Zheng Zhengqiu's Mingxing Film Company," defended August 8, 2007. Linda Wheatley-Irving, 2002-2005. Phoebe Wolfskill, Art History, “Reexamining 1930s America: The ‘Realisms’ of Archibald Motley, Jr. and Reginald Marsh,” defended February 2006; currently post-doctoral fellow at Dartmouth College. M.A. Advisees (UIUC): Sarah Eckhardt, M.A. advisor and thesis advisor, "Illustrating 'the Way Out': Class and Race in Aaron Douglas' cover for Spark," 2000-2003, selected by Art History faculty and graduate students to represent UIUC at 37th Graduate Student Seminar, Art Institute, Chicago, April 2002; Assistant Curator, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (2003-2005); Ph.D in Art History Program (UIUC). Emily Evans, M.A. advisor and thesis advisor, “Soldiers and Tourism: Making History with World War I Photographs,” 2003-2005; currently PhD student at UIUC. Katie Koca, M.A. advisor and thesis advisor, “Self-Presentation within Seclusion: Florine Stettheimer’s Portraits and Baron de Meyer’s Fashion Photographs,” 2005-2007; currently working at Krannert Art Museum, UIUC. Jenni Linkogel, M.A. thesis advisor, "Lucia Moholy: Weimar Germany and Bauhaus Photography," 1998-2002; now Art Director, Kroma: Contemporary Living, St. Louis, Missouri. Patty Plummer, M.A. advisor and thesis advisor, 2000-present. Natasha Ritsma, M.A. advisor and thesis advisor, "Lee Miller's War Photographs", 1998-2002, selected by Art History faculty and graduate students to represent UIUC at 36th Graduate Student Seminar, Art Institute, Chicago, April 2001; currently Ph.D. student in the Communication and Culture Program at the University of Indiana, Bloomington. Stacy Smith, M.A. advisor and thesis advisor, "Selling Culture: The Politics of Representation, Consumerism, and the Avant-garde in Vanity Fair and New York Dada," 1998-2002; currently Ph.D. student in Art History Program (UIUC). Ana Tallone, M.A. advisor and thesis advisor, "Nothing Stranger than the Familiar: Parody and Trauma in Jacques-André Boiffard's Carnival Masks," 2001-2003; Ph.D. Art History Department at CUNY Graduate Center, New York. B.A. Honors Thesis Advisees (UIUC):

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Kathryn Hargrave, B.F.A., 2007, “Towards a Modernist Museum Critique: The Projects of Mark Dion,” nominated for Hughston-Enochs Memorial Art Scholarship from School of Art and Design in recognition of high intellectual achievement; currently graduate student in M.A. Program in Cultural Production, Brandeis University. Alison Adams, B.F.A., 2004, "Actions Speak Louder than Words: Jacob A. Riis and Pragmatism," nominated for the Hughston-Enochs Memorial Art Scholarship from the School of Art and Design in recognition of high intellectual achievement; now working with Teach for America in New York, N.Y. Jessica Blumenthal, B.A., 1999, “George Grosz’s Berlin: Images of Murder, Metropolis & Masquerade," awarded the Hughston-Enochs Memorial Art Scholarship from the School of Art and Design in recognition of high intellectual achievement; worked at Aperture Gallery in New York upon graduation; now at Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, one of the oldest and most respected dealers in photography. Michael Wetzel, B.F.A., 2000, "Gustav Klmit's Beethoven Friezes," awarded the Hughston-Enochs Memorial Art Scholarship from the School of Art and Design in recognition of high intellectual achievement; taught English in Berlin and now in the Magister program in art history (with minors in comparative literature and history) at the Freie Universität, Berlin. SELECT SERVICE Professional: Interdisciplinary Committee, Modernist Studies Association 2006-2009 Fellowship Review Committee, Council for European Studies 2006 Swathmore College, Undergraduate Honors Examiner in Art History 2006, 2007 NEH Panel, Research Grants 2005 Board of Directors, American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies 2002-2006 (President, 2004-2006; Newsletter Editor, 2002-2004) Board of Trustees, Modernist Studies Association 2001-2005 (Chair, International Relations Committee) Editorial Boards: Advisory Committee (Consejo Asesor), Archivo Español de Arte (CSIC) 2019-present Advisory Committee (Consejo Asesor), Culture & History Digital Journal (CSIC) 2019-2022 Advisory Committee, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 2014-present Scientific committee, MURCRíTIC (AICA Catalonia), on-line magazine 2014-present DC Papers. Revista de crítica y teoría de la arquitectura (Barcelona, Universitat Politènica de Catalunya), Comité Científico 2013-present Editorial Collective, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 2013 Editorial Board, Modernism/Modernity (Johns Hopkins Press) 2010-present Editorial Board (Consejo Asesor), L'Atalante. Revista de estudios cinematográficos (Valencia, Spain) 2010-2015

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Editorial Board, "Toronto Iberic" Series, University of Toronto Press 2010-present Manuscript Reviewer, Modernism/modernity and Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 2010-2011 Editorial Board, Hispanic Research Journal 2006-2009 (Co-editor, annual special issue on visual arts) Peer Reviewer: Manuscript Review, Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2019 Manuscript Review, Modernism/modernity 2016-2017 Manuscript Review, Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos 2015 Manuscript Review, Cultural History 2014 Manuscript review, Penn State University Press 2014 Manuscript Review, Hispanic Research Journal 2013 Manuscript reviewer, Catalan Review 2013 Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Modernism/modernity 2012 Manuscript reviewer, Revista Hispánica Moderna, 2011 Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Slavic Review Manuscript Reviewer, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, University of Notre Dame Press 2010 Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of Women’s History 2008 Manuscript Reviewer, University of California Press 2006-2007 Peer Review, The Art Journal 2006 Peer Review, The Arizona Journal of Hispanic Cultural Studies 2006 Manuscript Reviewer: University of Washington Press 2006 Manuscript Reviewer: Penn State University Press 2005 Peer Review: Social Science Humanities Research Council (Canada) 2003, 2005 Peer Review: Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Visual Resources 2003-2005 Prize Committees: Member, Eleanor Tufts Book Award Committee, ASHAHS 2016-2017 Member, Book Prize Committee, Modernist Studies Association 2007 Varia: Consultant, Portal Guernica, documentation and interactive web-based archive project to commemorate anniversary of Picasso's Guernica, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, fall 2015-2016. https://guernica.museoreinasofia.es/en International Miró Research Group, Fundació Joan Miró and the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), member, fall 2014-spring 2019. Interviewed for documentary Revelando a Dalí, directed by Carlos del Amor and César Vallejo for TVE (televisión española), broadcast on January 22, 2014. http://lab.rtve.es/revelando-a-dali/ Miró Chair, Joan Miró Foundation and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Advisory Committee (by invitation), spring 2014-spring 2019.

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Interviewed in documentary Robert Capa: Diary of an Exodus, by Oriol Querol, in production, 2013. https://vimeo.com/groups/193707/videos/61000451 Interviewed in video feature about Encuentros con los años 30, produced by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, on occasion of exhibition October 2012-January 2013. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/multimedia/encounters-1930s Host/proposal of Juan José Lahuerta as King Juan Carlos I Center Chair, NYU, spring 2012. Interviewed in "Los Otros Guernicas," directed by Iñaki Pinedo, 2011. http://www.losotrosguernicas.com/ Host/organizer for week-long NYU campus visit by Jorge Blasco (scholar, Barcelona) with support from campus housing, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Visual Arts Initiative funding as part of ALBA seminar on visual culture and historical evidence, March 2010. Co-organizer, “Visual Culture and Historical Evidence: the Case of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archive,” funded by the Visual Arts Initiative, NYU, fall 2008-spring 2010. "Modern Art Colloquium," currently funded by a grant from the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, UIUC, Founding co-organizer and participant, 1998-2007 "Modernities," Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory (Faculty) Seminar, UIUC, Co-coordinator with Elena Delgado (Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) and Oscar Vázquez (Art History), Fall 2003. "Visual Culture & Interdisciplinary Research," IPRH Reading Group (Cross-campus, interdisciplinary reading group sponsored by the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities), UIUC, Principal Coordinator [with David Prochaska (History) and Cara Finnegan (Speech Communication)], Spring 2002. Modernism Working Group (directed by Michael Mackenzie, Depauw University), faculty from regional institutions interested in issues of modernism and modernity, participant, 2004-2006 Community Service: PTA, Recording Secretary (elected position), P751, Manhattan School for Career Development Prep (D75 Middle School), fall 2019-present. Facilitator, Empowerment Training for Mothers of Students with Disabilities, RespectAbility, in collaboration with Arts for All Abilities and other community organizations, March 9, 2019. “Sensing the World: Unexpected Ways We Find Art Everywhere Everyday,” essay for “Arts Values” section of the Arts for All Abilities Consortium Website, 2018. http://www.artsspecialed.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Mendelson.pdf Lecture and Q & A, “Sensing the World: Finding Art Everywhere and Encouraging it Every Day. A parent’s perspective on helping a young son with Down syndrome find ways to express himself creatively,” District 75 English Language Learners Professional Development Workshop:

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Supporting Language Acquisition of ELLs with Severe Disabilities through the Visual and Performing Arts,” Department of Education, NYC, January 17, 2017. Member, Steering Committee, Arts in Special Education Consortium (ASEC), summer 2016-present School Leadership Team (elected position), P94, District 75 (city-wide special education district), Manhattan, fall 2015-2018. Co-Chair, Programs Advisory Committee, GiG's Playhouse NYC (Down Syndrome Achievement Center), 2013- 2016 Board Member, Education Director (Literacy Program), GiGi's Playhouse NYC (Down Syndrome Achievement Center), 2012-2014 School Leadership Team (elected position) & Class Parent, PS 3, District 2, Manhattan, fall 2013-spring 2015. "Everyday Extraordinary," Fundraising video for the JCC (Jewish Community Center) and their support of inclusive programs for children with disabilities. 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opi9eU_lPlI&list=PL3hyFXYoLO9rJHSNA6Wvwt276VwV0ro4d&index=14&t=0s Video also included in the show: GROWING INCLUSIVELY: THE JACK + SHIRLEY SILVER CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS. On View March 6–April 13 The Jack and Shirley Silver Center for Special Needs builds and nurtures an inclusive and accepting community where individuals with varying special needs and their families can participate and succeed in innovative social, recreational, and educational activities. This multimedia exhibit explores the stories and celebrates the diversity of our community as we work to meet the changing needs of individuals with disabilities in the 21st century. Guest speaker/parent-advocate in graduate courses in special education (NYU, Columbia University/Teachers College), 2013-present Guest speaker as parent-advocate, YAI Network, 2014 Chair, "Parenting, Narrative and Genetic Futures," Columbia University, January 28, 2014. Moderator, Book discussion with Rachel Adams, author of Raising Henry:A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013), GiGi's Playhouse NYC, October 22, 2013. Member, Family Advisory Committee, YAI Network, NYC Steering Committee, Romp for Research, Annual Fundraiser for Down Syndrome Research and Treatment Foundation