Elena Shtromberg, Ph.D.

Elena Shtromberg is assistant professor of Art History at the University of Utah. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of California at Los Angeles. Her dissertation, entitled “Conceptual Encounters: Art and Information in Brazil, 1968-1978,” investigates the turn to performance art, video art, and visual poetry by Brazilian artists during the military dictatorship. Her scholarship in the field of 20th century and contemporary Latin American art attends to questions of gender, ethnic, and political identity. Her main areas of research include twentieth-century Brazilian art, Latin American performance art, as well as art from the U.S.-Mexico border region. During her time working for the Contemporary Programs Department at the Getty Research Institute she worked with Glenn Phillips to organize Pioneers of Brazilian Video Art (October 2004), a video art screening covering the first decade of video art production in Brazil (1973-1983) and Surveying the Border: 3 Decades of Video Art about the U.S and Mexico (September 2005), a screening of video art highlighting a number of different perspectives surrounding the United States/Mexico border. She is currently working on a book manuscript exploring the role of emerging information technologies in artist responses to censorship during the 1970s.

Professor Shtromberg will be the director of the summer study abroad program in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil during the month of June 2010. The program includes intensive language study as well as a course on Brazilian art. The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students in good standing. For more information, please visit the program website at: http://www.studyabroad.utah.edu/?&pageId=4534