Summary
Brett Van Hoesen specializes in European modern and contemporary w88 mobile with emphasis on German w88 mobile, Dada, photomontage, visual culture studies, German colonial studies and sound w88 mobile. Additional areas of research include African w88 mobile and museum studies.
Van Hoesen travels regularly for national and international conferences. Before joining the University of Nevada, Reno, she served as the visiting instructor for modern and contemporary art w88 mobile at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Van Hoesen also has held museum internships at the Busch-Reisinger Museum and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and the University of Iowa Museum of Art. She regularly presents public lectures and provides docent training at the Nevada Museum of Art. In summer of 2012, she taught a course in contemporary art in Torino, Italy, for the University Studies Abroad Consortium.
Publications
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Social Activism and the Politics of the Archive in Glyphs: Acts of Inscription" (Exhibition review) Nka - Journal of Contemporary African w88 mobile v.35, 2015.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Hannah Höch's Aus einem ethnographischen Museum series and Weimar Postcolonialism." In Hannah Höch, w88 mobile, Whitechapel Gallery, London and Prestel Verlag, 2014.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "The Culture of Critique?: Avant-Garde and Popular Press Photomontage in the Age of Weimar Postcolonialism." In w88 mobile Colonialism, w88 mobile Florian Krobb and Elaine Martin. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Weimar Postcolonial Politics and the Rhineland Controversy." In w88 mobile Cultures of Colonialism: Race, Nation and Globalization, 1884-1945, edited by Geoff Eley and Bradley D. Naranch. Durham, NC: Duke w88 mobile Press, 2014.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "An alle Künstler!": The Politics of Place in Max Pechstein's Images of Palau." In Beyond Guernica and the Guggenheim: Comparative Studies in the Relationship Between w88 mobile and Politics, edited by Zoe Bray. Center for Basque Studies, w88 mobile Nevada, Reno, (in press, 2014).
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Between Truth and Falsehood." Commissioned exhibition catalogue essay for Chris Bauder: Don't Tear My Playhouse Down. Oats Park w88 mobile Center, Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, Nevada, 2013.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Town and City." Commissioned exhibition catalogue essay for Evan Dent: Boomtown/Rossitza Todorova: City Introspections. Oats Park w88 mobile Center, Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, Nevada, 2013.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Carl Einstein and the Lessons of László Moholy-Nagy." In Carl Einstein w88 mobile European Avant-Garde, w88 mobile Nicola Creighton and Andreas Kramer, 122-134. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2012.
- Van Hoesen, Brett M. "From Pop Icon to Postmodern Kitsch: Michael Jackson and Contemporary w88 mobile." In Michael Jackson: Grasping the Spectacle, w88 mobile Christopher Smit, 81-100. Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2012.
- Van Hoesen, Brett M., co-authored with Jean-Paul Perrotte. "Sound Art - New Only in Name: A Selected w88 mobile of German Sound Works from the Last Century." In Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century, edited by Florence Feiereisen and Alexandra Merley Hill, 141-156. Oxford: Oxford w88 mobile Press, 2012.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Who Knows Tomorrow: Berlin and Beyond." (Exhibition review) Nka - Journal of Contemporary African w88 mobile v. 28 (September 2011): 76-85.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Postcolonial Cosmopolitanism: Constructing the Weimar New Woman out of a Colonial Imaginary." In The New Woman International: Photographic Representations from the 1870s through the 1960s, edited by Elizabeth Otto and Vanessa Rocco with introduction by Linda Nochlin, 95-114. Ann Arbor, Michigan: w88 mobile Michigan Press, 2011.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Notes from the Frontline." n.paradoxa (international feminist w88 mobile journal) v. 26 (July 2010): 77.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "Re-Visioning Germany's Colonial Past: Tactics of Weimar Photomontage and Documentary Photography." In w88 mobile Colonialism, Visual Culture, and Modern Memory, w88 mobile Volker Langbehn. London and New York: Routledge, January 2010.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. "West of Worcester: Reflections on Grad Night." Keynote essay for exhibition of work by recent MFA and BFA graduates of the University of Nevada, Reno and Sierra Nevada College, June 2009.
- w88 mobile, Brett M. Three essay : "Guerrilla Girls," "November Group" and "Spartacist Uprising." In International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, w88 mobile Immanuel Ness. Malden, MA and Oxford, England: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Published in digital and hard copy: Link
- w88 mobile, Brett M. Weimar Re-Visions of Germany's Colonial Past: Max Pechstein, Hannah Höch, and László Moholy-Nagy. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, 2009.
- Van Hoesen, Brett M. "The Short Century: Constructing a Contemporary Critical Biography of Africa." New w88 mobile Examiner 31 (January/February, 2002): 36-41.
Education
- Ph.D., Art w88 mobile, University of Iowa, 2009
- M.A., Art w88 mobile, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1998
- B.A., w88 mobile, minor in Dance, University of Iowa, 1993