Erin Reitz Department of Art History Northwestern 1880 Campus Drive Kresge 4305 Evanston, Illinois 60208 e-reitz@northwestern.edu Research Interests and Teaching Areas Modern and Contemporary Art and Theory; American and African Diasporic art after 1960; radical aesthetics; urban space; images of political violence; racism in the visual field; theories and visual cultures of decolonization; historiography; documentary and the film essay; print and popular media Education 2017 Ph.D., Art History, Northwestern Dissertation: Radical Aesthetics: The Art of the Black Panthers, 1966 1982 Committee: Hannah Feldman (Chair), Huey Copeland, Krista Thompson, and Rebecca Zorach 2016 2017 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, Critical Studies 2012 M.A., Art History, Northwestern Honors, second-year qualifying paper: Fred Hampton s Scenic Returns: (Mis)representations of State-sanctioned Violence at 2337 W. Monroe Street 2007 B.A., Ad hoc major: Studies in Political and Cultural Modernities, Northwestern Employment 2017 2018 Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History, Northwestern Fellowships 2016 2017 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship 2016 2017 Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies, Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program 2015 2016 Fellowship, The Graduate School, Northwestern 2014 2015 Teaching Assistantship, The Graduate School, Northwestern
2 2013 2014 Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory Fellowship 2011 2013 Teaching Assistantship, The Graduate School, Northwestern 2010 2011 Fellowship, The Graduate School, Northwestern Grants and Awards 2017 Conference Travel Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern 2016 Career Development Grant, The Graduate School, Northwestern 2013 2014 Professional Development Award, The Graduate School, Northwestern (funds for the organization of a symposium on museum and curatorial careers) 2013 Luce Pre-Dissertation Research Award, Department of Art History, Northwestern 2012 2013 Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts (CIRA) Grant, Northwestern (funds for a collaborative archival research project on the key sites of black radicalism in the United States between 1965 and 1975) 2012 Luce Pre-Dissertation Research Award, Department of Art History, Northwestern Publications Articles in Progress The Art of Solidarity: Imaging/Imagining the Black Panthers Internationalism [expected completion date: Fall 2017] Articles in Journals and Books Barnett Newman, Lace Curtain for Mayor Daley (1968), in The City Lost & Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960 1980, ed. Alison Fisher, Gregory Foster- Rice, and Katherine A. Bussard (New Haven: Yale Press, 2015), 160 161. [catalogue essay] Professional Talks Co-organizer A Feast of Astonishments: Emerging Scholars Symposium, in conjunction with the exhibition, A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960 1980s, The Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern, April 2016
3 What Objects Want: On Museums and Curatorial Careers, a symposium co-sponsored by The Graduate School Professional Development Grant, the Department of Art History, and The Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern, April 2014 Presenter Cities up in Arms (in Black Panther Pictures), College Art Association Annual Conference, February 2018 The Art of Solidarity: Imaging/Imagining the Black Panthers Internationalism, Global American Studies Symposium, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History. Harvard, December 2017 [invited guest] Shot by a Black Panther, Whitney Independent Study Program Critical Studies Symposium, Whitney Museum of American Art, May 2017 Anti-racism in the Academy: Teaching Aggressive Counterreading[s], Critical Theory in the Humanities: Resonances of the Work of Judith Butler, CLUE+ Research Institute for Culture, History, and Heritage, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, April 2017 "Cities up in Arms: Scenes of Urban Uprisings in Black Panther Art," Art in Public Life & the Life of Public Art, American Art Graduate Symposium, Yale, April 2017 Picturing Black Revolution in Racist, White America, Williams College, Graduate Program in Art History, What is Protest Art? Aesthetics of Dissent in Global Contemporary, November 2016 [invited seminar guest] Posturing in Algiers: Images of the Black Panther Party at the First Annual Pan-African Cultural Festival, The Performance of Pan-Africanism: From Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals, Winthrop-King Institute for Contemporary French and Francophone Studies, Florida State, October 2016 Imaging/Imagining International Revolutionary Solidarity in the Art and Films of the Black Panthers, Cold Atlantic: Cultural War, Dissident Artistic Practices, Networks and Contact Zones at the Time of the Iron Curtain, Doctoral Seminar, of Barcelona, September 2016 Imaging/Imagining the Black Panthers Internationalism, Northwestern, Department of Art History, The Transnational 1960s, March 2016 [invited seminar guest] Fred Hampton s Scenic Returns: (Mis)representations of State-sanctioned Violence at 2337 W. Monroe Street, 47th Annual Graduate Student Seminar, The Art Institute of Chicago, April 2012
4 Respondent Resistance, Dissidence, and Utopia(s), Cold Atlantic: Cultural War, Dissident Artistic Practices, Networks and Contact Zones at the Time of the Iron Curtain, Doctoral Seminar, of Barcelona, September 2016 The Acoustic Political: Borders, Mobility, and Belonging, Listening In: Sonic Interventions in the Middle East and North Africa, Department of Performance Studies, Northwestern, May 2016 Revolutionary Art and Institutions of Circulation, Before the Contemporary: Arts, Institutions, Revolutions, Department of Art History, Northwestern, May 2015 Teaching Experience Winter 2018. Instructor, Introduction to Contemporary Art, School of Professional Studies, Northwestern. Fall 2017. Instructor, Art Against Empire in the 1960s, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Spring 2015. Teaching Assistant (section leader and grader) for Huey Copeland, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Winter 2015. Teaching Assistant (reader and grader) for Hannah Feldman, Art and the Visual Public Sphere in the Contemporary Middle East and North Africa, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Lecture: The First Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers, 1969. Fall 2014. Teaching Assistant (section leader, exams writer, and grader) for Stephen Eisenman, Introduction to European Art, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Spring 2013. Teaching Assistant (reader, exams writer, and grader) for Jason LaFountain, American Art from the Antebellum Era to the Cold War, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Lectures: Winslow Homer and Urban Realism and Aerial Photography. Winter 2013. Teaching Assistant (section leader and grader) for Hannah Feldman, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Lecture: Institutional Critique. Fall 2012. Teaching Assistant (reader and grader) for David Van Zanten, History of Architecture and Planning, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Spring 2012. Teaching Assistant (section leader and grader) for Lily Woodruff, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Lecture: Conceptual Art and Institutional Critique.
5 Winter 2012. Teaching Assistant (section leader and grader) for Christina Normore, Introduction to Medieval Art, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Fall 2011. Teaching Assistant (section leader and grader) for Stephen Eisenman, Introduction to Western European Art, Department of Art History, Northwestern. Research Work Research assistant, The City Lost & Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960 1980, Departments of Photography and Architecture & Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, June December 2012 Advising Mentor to Richelle Kota, Northwestern Summer Research Opportunity Program (Evanston), Summer 2016, advised a quarter-long research project on the visibility of black women s sexualities in contemporary art and visual culture Mentor to Arianne Milhem, Northwestern Critical Theory, Literature, and Media Program (Paris), Fall 2013, advised a quarter-long research project on Lee Daniels 2013 film, The Butler, and the look of black protest in Hollywood Service Panelist, A Day in the Art World: The Career Panel, Northwestern Art Review, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences, Northwestern, December 2015 [invited] Co-coordinator, Graduate Student Lecture Series, Department of Art History, Northwestern, June 2012 May 2013 Community Involvement Volunteer, Education Working Group, Interference Archive, Brooklyn, October 2016 March 2017 Academic Affiliations Member, American Studies Association Member, College Art Association Member, Society for Cinema and Media Studies Languages Fluent: English (Native) Proficient: German, French Intermediate: Spanish