Tulane University

Edie Wolfe joined the Stone Center in July 2005. Her responsibilities include advising undergraduate students in the major and minor programs in Latin American Studies as well as coordinating events with TULASO, facilitating undergraduate-faculty communications, and teaching one section of the Introduction to Latin America course each semester. Edie has a Ph.D. in Art History with a specialization in twentieth-century Latin American modernism (UT Austin, 2005), an M.A. in Latin American Studies (UCLA, 1993), a B.A. in Art History and a B.S. in Environmental Design (UC Davis, 1986). Before coming to the Center, Edie taught in the Art History Department at Tulane and co-curated the exhibition Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in Latin American Drawing at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art. Her research interests include modernism in the context of underdevelopment; national, transnational and diasporic cultures and identities; and postcolonialism, settler colonialism and subaltern studies.

To schedule a meeting with Edie Wolfe go to: http://meetme.so/ediewolfe

Degrees

• B.A., University of California, Davis, Art History, 1986
• B.S., University of California, Environmental Design, 1986
• M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Latin American Studies, 1993
• Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin, Art History, 2005

Academic Experience

• Undergraduate Advisor, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2005-
• Visiting Instructor, Department of Critical Studies, Massachussetts College of Art and Design, Spring 2008
• Adjunct Instructor, Tulane University, 2001-2004
• Teaching Assistant, University of Texas, 1997-1998

Research & Teaching Specializations: Modernism beyond the metropole; primitivism; globalization; national, transnational and diasporic cultures/identities; colonialism, postcolonialism and subaltern studies; aestheticized politics/politicized aesthetics

Related Experience

• Consultant, Latin American Studies Program Curricular Review, Oberlin College, 2009
• Consultant, Area Studies Program and Interdisciplinary Curricular Review, Stone Center for Latin American Studies, Tulane University, 2004
• Co-Curator, “Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing” Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996-1999

Distinctions

• Newcomb Fellows Research Grant, Newcomb College Institute, Tulane University, 2011
• Outstanding Dissertation in the Humanities, The Graduate School, UT Austin, 2006
• American Association of University Women, American Dissertation Fellowship, 2001-2002
• Fulbright (IIE) Fellowship for Doctoral Research, 1999-2000
• Social Science Research Council, International Dissertation Field Research Fellowship, 1999-2000

Language & Proficiency: Portuguese; Spanish

Selected Publications

• Forthcoming. “‘Exiled from the World': German Expressionism, Brazilian Modernism and the Interstitial Primitivism of Lasar Segall” in KulturConfusão: On Interculturality and German-Brazilian Encounters. Edited by Anke Finger, Gabi Kathöfer, and Christopher Larkosh. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Collection
• 2010. "O sol do Brasil: Nicolas-Antoine Taunay e as desventuras dos artistas franceses na corte de Dom João. By Lilia Moritz Schwarcz." Review Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 15:1: 238-40
• 2007. "Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth Century Mexico". By Ilona Katzew. Exploring New World Imagery. Edited by Donna Pierce." (Review) Ethnohistory 54:4 (Fall 2007), 775-777
• 2006. “Lygia Clark, Compisição 5” and “Lygia Clark, Obra mole” in Gabriel Perez Barreiro, ed., The Geometry of Hope: Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art, 2006, pp. 142 144, 201 202
• 2005. "Art and Artists-Brazil," in J. Michael Francis, ed., Iberia and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Santa Barbara: ABC CLIO, 2005, pp. 94-101

Recently-Taught Latin American-Related Courses: LAST 101 Introduction to Latin American Studies I: Historical Origins of Contemporary Issues; Introduction to Latin American Studies II: Local Responses to Global Problems; Capstone Seminar for Graduating Seniors in Latin American Studies; Model Organization of American States: Jamaica; Model Organization of American States: Nicaragua; Cosmopolitanisms in Latin American Art and Culture; Latin American Infusion; Youth and Social Change in Latin America

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years: 4