Ana Gabriela RodrÃguez is an Associate Lecturer specialising in postwar and contemporary Latinx, American, Latin American, and Caribbean art. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MA from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She completed her PhD at 91ÖÆÆ¬³§ in 2023-2024 and was supervised by Dr Klara Kemp-Welch. Her doctoral thesis, titledÌýPuerto Rican Graphic Arts and the Cold War: Bridging Workshops and Crossing Borders, 1950-1970, focused on Puerto Rican and Latinx graphic arts within the broader global contexts of the Cold War. Considering print, film, and photography in conjunction with the transnational commercialisation and mass media coverage of war, her thesis examined the ways in which these mediums revealed an alternate picture of the utopia of postwar modernisation. Ana was 2020-2021 predoctoral fellow in Latinx Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was awarded a 2021-2022 Covid-19 extension. Her research and travel have been supported by the Smithsonian Institution, 91ÖÆÆ¬³§, CAA, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. She has previously taught at 91ÖÆÆ¬³§ and UCL.
Education
• 91ÖÆÆ¬³§, PhD
• Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, MA
• Brown University, BA
Teaching
- Associate Lecturer (2024/2025), Art and Cold War Politics, 91ÖÆÆ¬³§
- Teaching Assistant, Exhibiting Art (BA2), Spring 2023, 91ÖÆÆ¬³§
- Teaching Assistant, Survey Course (BA1), Spring 2023, UCL
- Guest Lecturer, Intro to Modern Latin American Art, April 2021, Fordham University
- Teaching Assistant, Foundations (BA1), Spring 2020, 91ÖÆÆ¬³§
Research interests
- Cold War contexts
- Politics of national identity
- Decolonial and postcolonial approaches
- Transnational and global intersections
- Latinx, American, Latin American Art, and Caribbean Art