Ms Jolan Bogdan
Academic qualifications
BFA Moore, Philadelphia (2004)
MA Goldsmiths (2006)
PhD Goldsmiths (2011)
Teaching
Courses taught: Introduction to Art History LabsResearch interests
My work explores post-identitarian critiques of revolution, with special emphasis on Eastern European visual cultures of the twentieth century. My current areas of interest are the Romanian Revolution of 1989, and its relation to technology, subjection, and the maternal.
Selected publications
Journals:
"Technology and the Romanian Revolution: performative contradiction in the nation-state" parallax 14: 3, Routledge, 2008, pp. 62-73
Book Review of Dennis Deletant’s Ceausescu and the Securitate, Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989 in Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans 10: 4, Routledge, 2008, pp. 398-400
"Aesthetic Culture" selected translations of Gyorgy Lukacs, from Esztetikai Kultura, 1913, for Mediations, by the Marxist Literary Group, University of Illinois at Chicago, for publication in 2010
Contributions to Books:
"Nicolae Ceausescu" Encyclopedia of the Cold War, ed Ruud Van Dijk, Routledge, 2008
"Media, Images, and Popular Protest in Eastern Europe: the Case of Romania" The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, ed. Immanuel Ness, Blackwell, 2009
"Protest and Revolution in Romania, 18th – 20th Century" The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, Blackwell, 2009
"Balkan Vision: self-representation under the western gaze" Transatlantic Cultural Traffic: Beyond the Legacy of the Cold War, ed. Anca Holden, forthcoming