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Assistant Professor of Italian, Art History
Ph.D. (History of Art) University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University of California; B.A., Yale University.
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Research Interests: Twentieth-century Italian and French Art History and Theory; Futurism and the Italian avant-garde between the World Wars; Nietzschean philosophy and modernist aesthetics; early avant-garde film theory and history; Pasolini and post-war Italian aesthetics and politics.
Fellowships/Honors: Lauro de Bosis Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Society of Fellows, Stanford University; Paul Mellon Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art; J. William Fulbright Scholar; Jacob K. Javits Fellow in the Humanities; Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies; Fondazione Lemmerman Grant for Art and Archaeological Research.
Selected Works:
Books
Urban Untimely: Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City. In progress.
Selected Articles and Book Chapters
“100 Years of the Future,” Special issue on the Centenary of Italian Futurism, Modern Painters, forthcoming February, 2009.
“‘To Mediterraneanize Painting’: Giorgio de Chirico’s Southern Formula,” California Italian Studies, Special Issue, “Italy in the Mediterranean,” eds. Claudio Fogu and Lucia Re, forthcoming, Spring 2009.
“Untimely Objects: Giorgio de Chirico’s The Evil Genius of a King (1914) between the Antediluvian and the Posthuman,” to Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, forthcoming Spring 2009.
“Slow Burn: Wolfgang Paalen: Implicit Spaces,” Review essay, Papers of Surrealism, Issue 6, Winter 2008.
“A Screen for Projection: Ricciotto Canudo’s Exponential Aesthetics and the Parisian Avant-Gardes,” European Film Theory, ed. Temenuga Triofonova, Routledge, London, August 2008.
“A Lost Manuscript on (and by?) de Chirico: Origins, Authorship, Implications,” Metafisica, Journal of the Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy, 2007.
“Diminishing Returns,” Special issue on Art and the Iraq War, Modern Painters, April, 2008.
“The Architectonic Afterlives of Giorgio de Chirico,” in Architecture & Arts 1900 – 2004: A Century of Creative Projects in Building, Design, Cinema, Painting, Sculpture, Editore, 2 October 2004 - 13 January 2005, Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; ed. Germano Celant, Milan: Skira, 2005.
“Middlebrow Modernism: Rudolf Arnheim at the Crossroads of Film Theory and the Psychology of Art” in The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History, ed. Angela Dalle Vacche, Rutgers University Press, 2003.
“La política del testimonio: Leon Golub y la serie Mercenarios, Interrogaciones, y Brigada Blanca,” in Ensayos sobre Antonio Rodríguez Luna, eds. Javier Pérez Segura and Isabel García, Córdoba, Spain: Diputación de Córdoba, August 2003.
Co-editor, with Jennifer Scappettone, “Fascism, Gender, and Culture,” special issue of qui parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History, vol.13 no. 1, fall/winter 2001.
“Gender, Historiography, and the Interpretation of Fascism: An Interview with Luisa Passerini,” in qui parle: Literature, Philosophy, Visual Arts, History, vol.13 no. 1, fall/winter 2001.
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