Visiting Assistant Professor

Nell Andrew (Ph.D. University of Chicago 2007) will teach courses in twentieth-century art during winter and spring quarters.  Her current research highlights the intersection of avant-garde dance and the development of abstract painting in late-19th and early-20th-century Europe, including studies of dancemakers Loie Fuller, Valentine de Saint-Point, Mary Wigman, Sophie Taeuber, Oskar Schlemmer and Akarova.  The multi-disciplinary nature of Professor Andrew’s work has led her to question the value of separate disciplinary categories of visual culture, visual studies and art history.  Interested in expanding the objects and methods of art history, she focuses on the nature of both material and ephemeral art objects and their reception, the concept of abstraction, as well as the gendered bias of art historical formalism and modernist medium-specificity.  She has previously worked for the curatorial departments of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. and the Art Institute of Chicago and will be contributing criticism to the 2008 exhibition Adaptation: Video Installations by Ben-Ner, Herrera, Sullivan, and Sussman & The Rufus Corporation at the Smart Museum of Art, Chicago.  She is the recipient of the University of Chicago Century Fellowship for doctoral studies and has been awarded both a Chateaubriand and a Georges Lurcy fellowship in support of her research.

ejandrew@northwestern.edu