George F. Flaherty

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1 George F. Flaherty Art and Art History Department College of Fine Arts University of Texas 1 University Station, D1300 Austin, TX Academic Appointments 2011-Present Assistant Professor, Art History University of Texas, Austin Assistant Professor, Art History Columbia College, Chicago Research Interests Latin American and U.S. Latino visual and spatial cultures since 1945, film and media studies, postcolonial theory and subaltern studies Education 2011 Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture University of California, Santa Barbara Primary Field: Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture in Latin America Secondary Field: Theories of Postcolonial and Transnational Media (supervised by Cristina Venegas and Bhaskar Sarkar of Film and Media Studies) Dissertation: Hospitality and Dwelling on México 68 Committee: Swati Chattopadhyay (chair), Jeanette Favrot Peterson, Cristina Venegas 2005 M.A. with Distinction, History of Art and Architecture University of California, Santa Barbara Thesis: Fiel Copia? Mimetic Conceit in the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Portraits, c B.A., Art History Swarthmore College 1998 Affiliate Student, Institute of Archaeology University College London

2 Extramural Fellowships and Awards Chester Dale Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington Fulbright-García Robles Grant, U.S. State Department/Comisión México-Estados Unidos para el Intercambio Educativo y Cultural International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council 2008 Edilia and François-Auguste de Montêquin Junior Fellowship in Iberian and Latin American Architecture, Society of Architectural Historians Intramural Fellowships and Awards 2012 Faculty Seminar Fellow, Humanities Institute, UT Austin 2011 Faculty Development Grant, Office of the Provost, Columbia College Chicago 2008, 2006 Research Travel Grant, History of Art and Architecture Department, UC Santa Barbara Doctoral Scholars Fellowship, Graduate Division, 2007, 2005 Graduate Committee Service Award, History of Art and Architecture Department, 2006 Margaret Mallory Award for Highest Achievement Demonstrated in a Master s Thesis, History of Art and Architecture Department, Extramural Conference Travel Grants 2010 Scott Opler Endowment for New Scholars Fellowship, Society of Architectural Historians 2008 Diversity Travel Grant, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Research and Curatorial Appointments Visiting Researcher, Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City Research Assistant, Subaltern-Popular Workshop, Multi-Campus Research Group, University of California Curatorial Research Assistant, Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, Santa Barbara Museum of Art in collaboration with Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City Flaherty 2

3 Forthcoming Publications Mario Pani s Hospitality: Latin America through Arquitectura/México, in Latin American Modern Architectures: Ambiguous Territories, eds. Patricio del Real and Helen Gyger (New York: Routledge, 2012) Publications Review of Luis E. Carranza, Architecture as Revolution: Episodes in the History of Modern Mexico, in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 70, no. 3 (September 2011) Review of Esther Gabara, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil and Roberto Tejada, National Camera: Photography and Mexico s Image Environment, in CAA.reviews (August 2010) Mediating the Third Culture at Tlatelolco, Mexico 68, in Center [for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts Record of Activities and Research Reports] 30 (June 2009-May 2010) Rojo amanecer: Mediating the Third Culture at Tlatelolco, Mexico City in (1968) Episodes of Culture in Contest, eds. Cathy Crane and Nicholas Muellner (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) Rufino Tamayo: Bibliography in Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, ed. Diana C. du Pont (Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2007) [includes exhibition history] Rufino Tamayo: Bibliografía in Tamayo reinterpretado, ed. Diana C. du Pont (Mexico City: Turner Libros, 2008) [Spanish translation of above] Publications in Progress Satellite Statecraft: Media, Environment and the Mexico City Olympics [under review at Journal of Design History] Hotel de México Mimesis and Conceit in Late Colonial Mexico: The Fiel Copias of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Invited Lectures 2011 Dwelling in and on Tlatelolco, México 68 Latin American Visualities Series, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Revenge of Dust : A History and Ethics of Opacity at Tlatelolco Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas, Austin Flaherty 3

4 2010 Transparency at Tlatelolco: Writing a Spatial History of México 68 Center for Research in the Humanities and Arts, University of California, Merced & Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park Select Conference Presentations 2011 Anxious Desires: Beautification and Repatriation at Mexico s Northern Border Border Research Group, University of Arizona, Tuscon 2011 México 68 Underground : Piracy and Documentary Practice Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Warwick, England Mimesis and Conceit in Late Colonial Mexico: The Fiel Copias of Sor Juana Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz: Her Work, Colonial Mexico, and Spain s Golden Age, Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, California State University, Los Angeles 2010 Superblock Spectacular : Mario Pani and Olympic Mexico Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Chicago Listening to Shadows with a Stethoscope : Urban Redevelopment and the Problem of Transparency at Tlatelolco College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago 2008 Street, Screen, Gallery: Apertures to 1968/ : A Global Year of Student Driven Change, Center for Black Studies Research, UC Santa Barbara Poaching Space for Memory at Tlatelolco: Rojo amanecer Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia 2006 Retrofitting the Third Culture at Tlatelolco: Architecture and Memory in Narrations of October 2, 1968 (1968): A Symposium, Park School of Communications, Ithaca College Fiel Copia? Mimetic Conceit and the Sor Juana Inéz de la Cruz Portraits in Late Colonial Mexico American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting, Montreal 2005 Reading El Joven to Write a Mexican Art History: Herrán, Toussaint and Novo The Los Angeles Queer Studies Conference, University of California, Los Angeles Conferences and Panels Convened 2007 Spatial Americas, 2005 Politicking Art History: Annual History of Art and Architecture Graduate Student Symposium, UC Santa Barbara Flaherty 4

5 Professional Affiliations College Art Association Society of Architectural Historians Society for Cinema and Media Studies Association for Latin American Art Languages Spanish (native fluency) French (reading knowledge) Portuguese (beginning) Flaherty 5

6 References Prof. Swati Chattopadhay History of Art and Architecture Prof. Jeanette Favrot Peterson History of Art and Architecture Prof. Cristina Venegas Film and Media Studies Flaherty 6