Hannah Feldman
Department of Art History

Hannah Feldman (Ph.D. Columbia University), Assistant Professor of Art History, is a historian of modern and contemporary art who specializes in French visual and urban culture after WWII, especially as it concerns the geo-political consequences of war, nationalism, and displacement in the post- and neocolonial periods. These subjects, along with questions regarding representation—both political and aesthetic—and the public sphere, inform her manuscript, Art During War: Visible Space and the Aesthetics of Action, Paris 1956/2006, which problematizes the received narrative of “post-war” modernism by looking away from formalist concerns and, instead, to the contemporaneous debates regarding public space, popular images, and the manifestations of national/migrant identities that circulated in Paris during and after the Algerian War for Independence. Work on this book has lead her to develop an interest in and to teach courses about art and the “Islamic World,” with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries and a regional emphasis on the formerly French colonies/mandates in the Levant and the Maghreb. Her work has been awarded a Samuel H. Kress Foundation Fellowship in Art History, which brought her an affiliation with the American University in Paris for two years, a Bourse Chateaubriand, a Marandon Fellowship, and a Mellon Grant.

h-feldman@northwestern.edu