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). 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. 2 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. 3 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