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AMANDA WUNDER

Home (preferred contact): History Department, Lehman College 720 W 181st Street, Apt. 67 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West New York NY 10033 USA Bronx NY 10467 USA [email protected] [email protected] Mobile phone: 1-917-520-2099 Office phone: 1-718-960-1896

EMPLOYMENT

2016-present Associate Professor of Early Modern European History, Department of History, Lehman College; faculty member in Art History and Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. 2008-2016 Assistant professor at Lehman College; appointed to the faculty of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, in 2011. 2003-2008 Assistant Professor of Iberian History, University of New Hampshire. 2002-2003 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Humanities and Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

EDUCATION

Degrees 2002 PhD, History, . Doctoral dissertation: “Search for Sanctity in Baroque Seville: The Canonization of San Fernando and the Making of Golden-Age Culture, 1624-1729.” Supervisor: Anthony Grafton. Committee: Patricia Fortini Brown, William C. Jordan, Kenneth Mills. Outside reader: Richard L. Kagan. 1998 MA with Distinction, History, Princeton University. Examination fields: Early Modern Europe, Colonial Latin America, Renaissance Books and Prints. 1994 BA with Honors and Phi Beta Kappa, History, Wesleyan University. Senior honors thesis: “The Impact of Printing on Spanish Religion.” Supervisor: Laurie Nussdorfer.

Other Education 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, “Literature and the Arts,” Boston Athenaeum. 1995-1996 Coursework in European History at Helsinki University (Finland). 1992-1993 Junior Year Abroad, University of Seville (Spain).

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, & RESEARCH GRANTS

External Awards 2017 Bard Graduate Center Research Fellowship, September-December 2017. 2016 Honorable mention, William Nelson Prize for the best article published in Renaissance Quarterly in 2015. 2016 College Art Association Millard Meiss Publication Fund subvention for Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis (2017). 2015 Princeton University Barr Ferree Publication Fund subvention for Baroque Seville. 2012 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. 2006 Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation research travel grant. Wunder CV Page 2 of 6

2005-2006 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship. 2005-2006 J. Paul Getty Foundation, Art History Postdoctoral Fellowship (declined). 2004 Society for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies award for the best doctoral dissertation in Iberian History written between 2002 and 2004. 2003 American Philosophical Society, Franklin Research Grant. 2003 Bibliographical Society of America, Short-Term Fellowship. 2002-2003 Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities. 2001-2002 Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. 2000-2001 Princeton Center for the Study of Religion Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. 1999 and 2000 Spanish Program for Cultural Cooperation research travel grants. 1999-2000 J. William Fulbright Student Award, Spain.

CUNY Awards Faculty Fellowship Award, Lehman College, 2017-2018. Lehman College George Shuster grants, 2011 and 2017. PSC-CUNY research awards: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017. Lehman College Faculty Development Award, Fall 2013.

PUBLICATIONS

Book Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis (University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2017).

Journal Articles “Women’s and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Spain: The Rise and Fall of the Guardainfante,” Renaissance Quarterly 68:1 (March 2015): 133-86. “Veiled Ladies of the Early Modern Spanish World: Seduction and Scandal in Seville, Madrid, and Lima,” with Laura R. Bass, The Hispanic Review 77:1 (2009): 97-146. “Classical, Christian, and Muslim Remains in Imperial Seville (1520-1635),” Journal of the History of Ideas 64:2 (2003): 195-212. “Western Travelers, Eastern Antiquities, and the Image of the Turk in Early Modern Europe,” The Journal of Early Modern History 7:1-2 (2003): 89-119. “Murillo and the Canonisation Case of San Fernando, 1649-52,” The Burlington Magazine 143:1184 (2001): 670-75.

Articles in Edited Volumes “Innovation and Tradition at the Court of Philip IV of Spain (1621-1665): The Invention of the Golilla and the Guardainfante,” in Fashioning the Early Modern: , Textiles and Innovation in Europe, 1500-1800, ed. Evelyn Welch (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 111-33. “ and Urban Views in Seventeenth-century Madrid,” with Laura R. Bass, in Spanish Fashion at the Courts of Early Modern Europe, ed. José Luis Colomer and Amalia Descalzo (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2014), 1: 363-84; Spanish ed.: “Moda y vistas de Madrid en el siglo XVII,” in Vestir a la española en las cortes europeas (siglos XVI y XVII), 1: 363-84. “Dress (Spain),” in Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque, ed. Evonne Levy and Kenneth Mills (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013), 106-10.

Reviews & Reference Works Review of Nueva Roma: Mitología y humanismo en el Renacimiento sevillano, by Vicente Lleó Cañal, in Journal of the Society of Architectural 72:2 (2013): 257-58. Review of A King Travels: Festive Traditions in Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain, by Teofilo F. Ruiz, in Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies 37:1 (2012): 192-94. Wunder CV Page 3 of 6

Review of Materia crítica: Formas de ocio y de consumo en la cultura áurea, ed. by Enrique García Santo-Tomás, in Calíope: Journal of the Society for Renaissance & Baroque Hispanic Poetry 17:11 (2011): 242-46. Comment on “A Sea of Denial,” by Ricardo Padrón, The Hispanic Review 77:1 (2009): 29-30. Review of Seville, Córdoba, and Granada: A Cultural History, by Elizabeth Nash, in The Sixteenth Century Journal 38:3 (2007): 869-70. Review of The Cambridge Companion to Velázquez, ed. by Suzanne L. Stratton-Pruitt, in Society for Spanish and Portuguese Studies Bulletin 29:1 (2004): 50-51. “Seville,” in Europe 1450-1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World, ed. Jonathan Dewald (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004), 392-94. Review of Art, Liturgy, and Legend in Renaissance Toledo, by Lynette M. F. Bosch, in The Sixteenth Century Journal 33 (2002): 886-87. Review of The Invention of the Italian Renaissance Printmaker, by Evelyn Lincoln, in The Sixteenth Century Journal 32:3 (2001): 925-27. Review of Art and Ritual in Golden-Age Spain, by Susan Verdi Webster, in Koinonia: Princeton Theological Seminary Graduate Forum 11 (1999): 285-87.

Work in Progress The Spanish Style: Fashion and Experience in the Reign of Philip IV, 1621-1665. Book proposal accepted for publication by Yale University Press (London). “Sumptuary Legislation in Spain, 13th-18th Centuries,” in The Right To Dress: Sumptuary Legislation in a Comparative and Global Perspective, ed. Giorgio Riello and Ulinka Rublack. Edited volume undergoing peer review at Oxford University Press. “Material Culture and Early Modern European History.” New Horizons for Early Modern Europe, ed. Ann Blair and Nicholas Popper. Edited volume in preparation, to be submitted for peer review at the Johns Hopkins University Press.

PRESENTATIONS (since 2010)

Keynote Addresses “Extreme Fashions in Early Modern Spain,” plenary talk, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program Material Culture Conference, 2 October 2015. “The Spanish Style: Invention and Tradition at the Court of Philip IV (1621-1665),” keynote address, Pasold Fund Research Conference: Innovation Before the Modern: Cloth and in the Early Modern World, Nordic Museum (Stockholm), 28 September 2012. “The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Farthingale: The Politics of Women’s Fashions in the 16th and 17th Centuries,” keynote address, Fashioning the Early Modern: Innovation and Creativity in Europe, 1500-1800 symposium, Victoria & Albert Museum, 15 September 2012.

Invited Talks “Making the Spanish Style: Fashion and Artisans at the Court of Philip IV,” Bard Graduate Center, 27 September 2017. “Baroque Seville: Sacred Art in a Century of Crisis,” Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium on the Arts and Visual Cultures of Spain and the Colonial Americas, New York University Institute of Fine Arts, 1 March 2017. “Fashion and Novelty in Velázquez’s Spain,” Yale University Medieval-Renaissance Forum, 2 March 2015. “The Spanish Farthingale: Women, Fashion, and Politics in Baroque Spain,” Bard Graduate Center Renaissance Seminar in Cultural History (New York City), 5 November 2014. Wunder CV Page 4 of 6

“The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Farthingale: Women’s Fashions and Politics in Seventeenth-Century Spain,” Department of Art History, Vanderbilt University (Nashville), 27 February 2014. “The Spanish Style: The Politics of Extreme Fashion in an Age of Empire, 1492-1700,” Meeting of the CUNY Graduate Center Doctoral Faculty, 18 April 2013. “The Rise and Fall of the Spanish Farthingale: The Guardainfante and the Politics of Feminine Fashion in Baroque Spain,” Fashion Studies Today Conference, New York University, 5 May 2012. “The Great Guardainfante Debate: The Politics of Women’s Dress in Baroque Madrid,” Dress and the Culture of Appearances in Early Modern Europe symposium, Fundación Carlos de Ámberes (Madrid), 4 February 2012. “Extreme Fashion in Baroque Madrid: The Rise and Fall of the Spanish in the Age of Velázquez,” Rewald Seminar, Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, 20 September 2011. “Veiled Ladies of the Early Modern Spanish World: Seduction and Scandal in Seville, Madrid, and Lima,” The Women’s Studies Program Spring Lecture Series, Lehman College, 14 April 2010. “The Phoenix of Seville: The Art of Regeneration, 1680-1717,” Urban Empire: A Symposium on Cities of the Early Modern Hispanic World, Tulane University (New Orleans), 20 March 2010.

Conference Papers and Panels Round-table co-organizer and co-chair with Carmen Saen-de-Casas, Vanitas Vanitatum: Disillusionment in Baroque Art, History, and Literature, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Chicago), 1 April 2017. “Tailors, Pattern Books, and Fashion Innovations in Early Modern Spain,” The Shape of Knowledge: The Form and Function of Printed Professional Manuals, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Chicago), 30 March 2017. Panel co-organizer and co-chair with Carmen Ripollés, The Arts of the Early Modern Iberian World: New Approaches through Material Culture, Annual Meeting of the College Art Association (New York City), 17 February 2017. Panel chair and commentator, “The Global Renaissance I: Ceramics in Circulation,” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (New York City), 28 March 2014. Panel chair and commentator, “Making Iberian History V: Myth and History,” Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (New York City), 28 March 2014. Panel chair and commentator, “Visual Responses to Urban Culture in the Early Modern Hispanic World,” Annual Meeting of the Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 24 March 2012.

Workshops and Commentaries Workshop co-organizer, “Early Modern Fashion: Approaches and Methods,” with Corinne Thépaut- Cabasset (Château de Versailles), Bard Graduate Center, 14 November 2017. Speaker and panelist, “After Al-Andalus: New Interdisciplinary Approaches to Late Medieval and Early Modern Spain,” Columbia University, Program in Latin American and Iberian Cultures, 20 October 2017. Speaker and panelist, “Cultural Histories of the Material World: Early Modern Books and Objects,” Folger Institute (Washington, DC), 21 April 2016. Speaker and panelist, “Material Culture,” The Space Between: Connecting Microhistory and Global History, University of Warwick and (Venice), 28 February 2016. Speaker and panelist, “Practices and Interactions of Scholarship,” Polymaths and Proofreaders: A Conference to Honor Anthony Grafton on His 65th Birthday, Princeton University, 8 May 2015. Commentator on Felipe Pereda’s “Laughing at the Foot of the Cross: Alternative Imaginaires in 16th- Century Spain,” Davis Seminar, Princeton University, 11 November 2011. Speaker and panelist, “Renaissance Art History/Early Modern Visual Culture: Defining the Terms of the Field,” Roundtable Discussion sponsored by the Renaissance Society of America, CUNY Graduate Center, 8 October 2010. Wunder CV Page 5 of 6

Museum Lectures and Public Talks “Spanish or Italian? A Conversation about Luxury Textiles from Southern Europe,” with curator Melinda Watt, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 22 March 2017. Frick Collection, 3-part lecture series, “Don Quixote at the Frick,” Spring 2015. “Teaching and Learning the History of Spain in New York City,” Teaching Effectiveness in Global History Symposium, History Department, Lehman College, 18 April 2012.

SERVICE

Lehman College Advisor, Phi Alpha Theta, National History Honors Society, Lehman College, Spring 2014-present. Chair, Dean’s Arts Committee, Lehman College, 2010- 2017. Department representative and seminar participant, Writing in the Majors WAC Program, 2011-2012. Department Representative, Faculty Senate, 2009-2011. Member, Faculty Committee for Student Recruitment, Lehman College, 2009-2010.

Graduate Center Organized and led workshop for graduate students: “Balancing Work and Family Life,” 7 March 2017. Member, Committee on Student Awards and Fellowships, Art History Department, 2015-2017. Graduate Center representative to the University Faculty Senate, 2015- 2017. Deputy Executive Officer, Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, 2012-2016. Executive Committee Member, Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, 2012-2015. Organized and led workshops for graduate students: “Turning a Seminar Paper into a Journal Article,” 18 March 2014; co-led with Mona Hadler, “Writing a Dissertation Proposal,” 18 February 2014. Graduate Council Representative, Program in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center, 2013-2014. Reviewer for GC Dissertation Fellowship Competition (evaluated 19 dissertation proposals in History, Art History, and English), 25 February 2014. Fulbright Reviewer/Interviewer, Graduate Center Campus Evaluation Committee, 3-5 October 2012.

Service to the Profession Elected member of the Nominating Committee of the Association of Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies: committee member, 2014-2015; committee chair, 2016. Faculty reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, August 2015. Chair, Committee on Local Arrangements and Program Committee member, Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York City, 2014. Reviewer for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies, Hispanic Research Journal, Journal of the History of Ideas, The Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, I Tatti Studies, Ars Orientalis, Pearson Longman, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of New Mexico Press

TEACHING History Undergraduate Courses at Lehman College Early Modern Europe, 1400-1815 History of Spain, Prehistory to the Present Europe in the Renaissance & Reformation Society and Culture in Renaissance Italy Golden-Age Spain Europe Under the Old Regime Wunder CV Page 6 of 6

Nueva York: Exploring a Special Exhibition at the Museo del Barrio The Spanish Style: Fashion and Empire, 1492-1700

Art History Graduate Courses at the CUNY Graduate Center Material Culture and the Arts of the Early Modern Iberian World (Spring 2017) Early Modern Textiles: Fashion and Function; seminar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art co-taught with Melinda Watt, supervising curator of the Antonio Ratti Textile Center (Spring 2016) The Baroque (Spring 2014) Mellon Seminar: European Textiles (15th-18th cen.) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, co-taught with Melinda Watt (Fall 2012) Baroque Spain (Spring 2011) Art & Artists of the Spanish World, 1450-1700 (Spring 2010)

Graduate Student Examinations in Art History, CUNY Graduate Center Examiner, First Exam in Early Modern Art History, Spring 2017 Ph.D. Dissertation Committee Member and Final Examiner, Art History, CUNY Graduate Center: Barbara Laux, “Claude III Audran: Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style” May 24, 2017. Richard Aste, “A Merchant Banker’s Ascent by Design: Bartolomeo Bettini’s Cycle of Paintings by Michelangelo, Pontormo, and Bronzino for his Florentine Camera,” May 20, 2015. Elena FitzPatrick Sifford, “Disseminating Devotion: The Image and Cult of the Black Christ in Colonial Mexico and Central America,” Apr. 11, 2013. Andrea Ortuño, “Owning the Exotic: Production of Hispano-Islamic Lusterware and its Reception in Western Europe, 1350-1650,” May 1, 2013. Ph.D. Qualifying Exams Oral Examiner: Matteo Bellucci, “Art and Architecture of Mediterranean Europe, 1300-1600,” May 14, 2015. Anne Vuagniaux, “Baroque Art,” May 1, 2009.

MA Thesis Supervision Risa Puleo, Hunter College, “Towards an Iconography of Female Monstrosity in the Early Modern Era,” Spring 2015.

Other Teaching/Lecturing Appointments Frick Collection, 3-part lecture course, “Don Quixote at the Frick,” Spring 2015. Columbia University, Summer Session course, “Early Modern Spain,” Summer 2014. Metropolitan Museum of Art Gallery talks on Spanish Painting, 2006-2011.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies College Art Association Columbia Seminar on the Renaissance Renaissance Society of America