Graduate Student
Meredith North
Contact
Advisor(s): Barbara McCloskey
Meredith North specializes in Modern and Contemporary German artistic practices. Her dissertation will focus on a group of artists and filmmakers in Frankfurt am Main during the 1960s. Other research interests include transnational artistic, social, and political connections between the United States and Germany in the Cold War era, queer identity and [mis]representation, and the history of intermedia art and immersive environments.
Education
M.A. University at Buffalo, Department of Visual Studies.
Masters Thesis: The Conscientious Objection of Peter Roehr’s Untitled Montages, 2012
B.A. Georgia College and State University, Department of Art and Art History.
Senior Thesis: The Self and Other in Hannah Höch’s Domptuese, 2008
Selected Awards
Getty Library Research Grant, The Getty Foundation, 2014
Academic Exchange Fellow, Department of German at the University of Pittsburgh and the Universität Augsburg, 2013-2014
Dissertation Development Grant, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, 2013
Selected Conference Papers
“Silencing Machine: Peter Roehr’s Film Montages as Queer Disavowal,” Geist and the Machine: A Graduate Student Conference on German Cinema and Film Theory, Department of German, University of Pennsylvania, March 15, 2013
“Eva Hesse’s “ick” Perversity: Eros in Deferral,” Desire: From Eros to Eroticism Conference, The Graduate School CUNY, New York, New York. November 11, 2011
“Hannah Höch: Answerability and the Self in Domptuese,” Georgia College Student Research Conference, Milledgeville, Georgia. April 11, 2008
