Graduate Student
Nicole Coffineau
Advisor(s): Josh Ellenbogen , Terry Smith , Kirk Savage
Nicole researches the histories of photography, modernity, and the avant-garde in Italy. Her dissertation investigates photography’s impact upon artistic and social thought in Italy, and Western Europe more broadly, between roughly 1860 and the end of World War I. Nicole’s secondary focus is contemporary art history and criticism. She is an active critic and curator, work which she approaches through the lenses of media theory, politics, environmentalism, identity, coevality, and performance. She has been a member of HAA since 2013.
Education
University of Chicago, MA, 2011. Thesis title: Psycho Ethics: Douglas Gordon and Socio-Technic Perception, Advisor: Patrick Jagoda
Virginia Polytech. Institute and State University, BA, 2008, History of Art
