Graduate Student
Paulina Pardo
Contact
Advisor(s): Jennifer Josten
Paulina Pardo joined the Ph.D. program in Fall 2014 to specialize in Latin American art. Among her research interests are contemporary media such as video, installation, xerox- and mail-art, as well as artworks produced during the several dictatorships of the region. Her background in art history focuses in moving images and, in literature, in periodicals.
Education
Ph.D. student, History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, in progress.
M.A., Art History and Criticism, Stony Brook University, 2013. Thesis: “Sometimes the Sense of Time is Lost or Disturbed when Watching Paul Sharits’ Flicker Films.”
B.A., Literature, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 2010Thesis: “Correspondencias entre lectores: Mito: Revista bimestral de cultura.” Honor Thesis.
Selected Publications
“Correspondencias entre lectores: Mito: Revista bimestral de cultura,” in Monografías Meritorias del Departamento de Literatura, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, 2014.
Selected Conferences
"Confluence in the Americas" (panel co-chair), SECAC Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 21-24, 2015.
“Sometimes the sense of time is lost or disturbed when watching Paul Sharits’ flicker films”, Graduate Colloquium, Stony Brook University, April 26, 2013.
“Correspondencias entre los lectores de Mito,” XXVI Congreso nacional de lingüística, literatura y semiótica, Universidad Industrial de Santander, September 22-24, 2010.
Selected Awards
Dean’s Summer Research Grant, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2015
Graduate Students Field Research Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Summer 2015
Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, 2014-2015
