Camila Maroja 97 Williams Street (rear apt.) Providence, RI 02906 | US Email:
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Current Position: C o g u t C e n te r fo r th e H u m a n itie s a t B r o w n U n iv ersity , P r o v id e n c e , R I, U SA Postdoctoral Fellow in International Humanities
2015-2017
A C A D E M I C E D U C A T IO N D u k e U n iv ersity , D u rh a m , N C , U SA Doctor of Philosophy 2015 Dissertation Title: “Framing Latin American Art: Artists, Critics, Institutions and the Configuration of a Regional Identity.” Co-Advisers: Drs. Esther Gabara and Kristine Stiles Pontifícia Universidade Católica, PUC -Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Master of Arts in History of Art and Architecture with Honors
2006
Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, UERJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Bachelor of Arts in Social Communication, Journalism
2003
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Uni -Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Bachelor of Arts in Theater Studies, Scenography
2002
A C A D E M I C C E R T IF IC A T IO N D u k e U n iv ersity , D u rh a m , N C , U SA Certificate in College Teaching Certificate in Latin American Studies
Summer 2015 Spring 2012
P U B L IC A T IO N S Peer-Reviewed Articles: “Red Shift: Cildo Meireles and the Definition of the Political-Conceptual,” ARTMargins, Vol. 5, No. 1 (February 2016): 30-58. “Visualizing Other Histories: Paulo Herkenhoff’s Cannibalization of Alfred Barr’s Chart,” Carte Semiotiche. Rivista Internazionale di Semiotica e Teoria dell’Immagine, Annali 2 series, Immagini che fanno segno, (December, 2014): 104-115. “Vectors or Constellations? Curatorial Narratives of Latin American Art,” co-authored with Abigail Winograd, Artlas Bulletin, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (Fall 2014): 83-96. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1041&context=artlas “Transforming Spectators Into Witnesses: Artur Barrio’s Bloody Bundles,” Art & Documentation, n. 10 (Spring 2014): 23-29. http://www.journal.doc.art.pl/pdf10/art_and_text_camila_maroja.pdf Book: The Permanence of the Transient: Precariousness in Art, co-editor with Caroline Menezes and Fabrizio Poltronieri (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, September 2014). http://www.cambridgescholars.com/thepermanence-of-the-transient
Maroja 2 Book Review: The Woman's Art Journal. Nancy Defebach, Maria Izquiero and Frida Kahlo (manuscript in preparation) Publications in Brazil: “Inside the Sandcastle / Dentro do castelo de areia,” co-authored with Adam Smith, for the catalogue Sobre a Areia edited by Regina de Paula and Marcelo Campus. [Portuguese/English] (forthcoming) “A Construção de um Cânone para a Arte Latino-Americana: Análise de uma Narrativa Regional dos anos 1970 aos 2000,” Comite Brasileiro de História da Arte, CBHA (forthcoming) “Modernidades Paralelas,” Arte & Ensaios: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais EBA-UFRJ, De Peito Aberto, n. 27 (November 2014) “Depoimento Compartilhado / Shared Words, Interview with Rosana Ricalde and Felipe Barbosa,” interview conducted together with Ana Mannarino, Galeria Arte em Dobro, Galeria Baró, 2009. p. 217-225. [Portuguese/English] “Visões de Mundos,” Papel das Artes, n. 12 / Sept.-Oct. 2009. Ano 2. p. 16-19. “Artista de Dois Mundos: Síntese entre o Erudito e o Popular,” BrHistória, Jun. 2007. p. 40-47. “Homenagem a Mario Carneiro,” interview conducted together with Daniel Caetano and Clara Linhart, Banco do Brasil, 2007. p. 46-49. Online Resource: Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Entries on Latin American artists for the Visual Arts Session on Latin American art and artists, 2015 Translation: Dr. Kristine Stiles’ article “Marked Bodies, Shaved Heads, Representations from Cultures of Trauma.” Arte & Ensaios: Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Artes Visuais EBA-UFRJ, no. 24, 2012. Brazil. (English into Portuguese)
SELECTED AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS D u k e U n iv ersity , D u rh a m , N C , U SA • Bass IOR Fellowship Spring 2015 Teaching Fellowship to develop an undergraduate course at Duke University (full tuition, teaching stipend) • Judy C. Woodruff Fellowship Summer 2014 Summer Research Fellowship from the Graduate School ($5,500) • Mellon Research Travel Grant from Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2013 Travel Research Fellowship from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies ($1,657) • Julian Price Fellowship 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Award from the Graduate School (full tuition, yearly stipend and $5,000 award) • Aleane Webb Research Fellowship 2013 Award from the Graduate School to assist students in funding research projects ($300) • International Travel Research Grant (Declined) 2012-2013 Dissertation Research Award from the Graduate School (full tuition and yearly stipend) • Vice-Provost for the Arts Summer Study in Arts Grant Summer 2012 Award from the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to support professional expertise ($1,250) • James and Roberta Wilson Woodress Fellowship Summer 2012 Summer Research Fellowship from the Graduate School ($5,000) • Mellon Graduate Student Research Travel Grant 2011 Travel Research Fellowship from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
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($1,800) Tinker Field Research Grant, Tinker Foundation Summer 2010 Travel Research Fellowship from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies ($1,200) Art, Art History & Visual Studies Departmental Travel Grant Summer 2009 Summer Research Fellowship from the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies ($2,000) Doctoral Fellowship 2008-2013 Funding for PhD Completion (5 years of full tuition and yearly stipend) Conference Travel Fellowship August 2014, April 2013 and March 2012 Funding for presenting research at conferences from the Graduate School ($2,142) Conference Travel Awards May and June 2012, Feb. 2010 Funding for presenting research at conferences from the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (Mellon Conference Travel Grant, $850) and from Women Studies (Women Studies Travel Award, $500)
Pontifícia Universidade Católica, PUC -Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil • Capes-PROSUP Fellowship Funding for M.A. Completion (2 years of full tuition and yearly stipend)
2004-2006
SELECTED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS Papers Presented: Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Unifesp) and the Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo (MAC -USP), SP, Brazil Forthcoming July 2016 "The First Mercosul Biennial: Showcasing an Abstract and Political Latin America," during the Transregional Academy “Modernisms: Concepts, Contexts, and Circulation” organized by the Transregionale Studien and the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte College Art Association, Washington, DC, USA February 2016 nd "Vontade Construtiva: Latin America’s Sensitive Geometry,” during the 104 Annual College Art Association Conference (CAA) École Normal Supérieure, Paris, France June 2015 “From the South and Back Again. Constructing Latin American Art at the Biennale de Paris (1977) and at the Bienal Latino Americana de São Paulo (1978),” co-authored with Camila Bechelamy, during the Artlas Conference South-South Axes of Global Art Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), Uberlândia, Brazil August 2014 “A construção de um cânone para arte latino-americana: a análise de uma narrativa em comum dos anos 1970 aos 1990,” during the XXXIV Colóquio do Comitê Brasileiro de História da Arte, Territórios da História da Arte Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France July 2014 “Latin American Participation in the Exhibition Magiciens de la Terre (Paris, 1989),” during the Summer University Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina June 2014 “Vectors or Constellations? Frederico Morais’s and Mari Carmen Ramírez’s Curatorial Narratives of Latin American Art,” co-authored with Abigail Winograd, during the seminar “Exhibiting and Narrating Latin American/Latino Art,” organized by the J. Paul Getty Foundation and in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin, Universidade de São Paulo and Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano College Art Association, Chicago, IL, USA February 2014 “An Art for the Region: The First Mercosul Biennial (1997),” during the 102nd Annual College Art Association Conference (CAA)
Maroja 4 Latin American Studies Association, Washington, DC, USA May 2013 “Cildo Meireles: Vermelho,” during the XXXI International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Université Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France June 2012 “Cannibals in Paris: Tarsila do Amaral and Oswald de Andrade,” during the Ninth International Conference Crossroads in Cultural Studies Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, USA May 2012 “Panacea Antropofágica: Paulo Herkenhoff and the 24th São Paulo Biennial,” during the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom March 2012 “Who is Afraid of the West? Comparing the 1998 São Paulo Biennial and the 2006 Mercosur Biennial,” during the 38th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD, Savannah, GA, USA November 2011 “Cannibal Feast: Understanding the 24th São Paulo Biennial,” during the 67th Annual Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Invited Speaker: Universidade de São Paulo (USP), SP, Brazil Forthcoming June 2016 "Displaying Latin America as Global. Analyzing the exhibition Modernités Plurielles," during the BrasilFrança-Estados Unidos: Novos Olhares, Novas Perspectivas VII Simpósio Internacional de História do Brasil Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University , NC, USA Forthcoming April 2016 Curatorial workshop for the exhibition “Contested Freedom: Pop Art in the Americas, 1965-1975” Connecticut College , CT, USA December 2015 "Curating Latin American Art," for Karen Gonzalez Rice seminar “Curatorial Practicum” Panels Organized: Latin American Studies Association, New York, NY, USA Forthcoming May 2016 “Histories of Exhibiting Latin American Art,” with Mariola V. Alvarez, during the XXXIV International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) University of Edinburgh , Scotland, United Kingdom Forthcoming April 2016 “The Circulation of Art Objects and Art History,” with Adam Smith, during the 42nd Annual Association of Art Historians Conference Brown University, RI, USA Forthcoming March 2016 th “Espaços entre Artes. Arquitetura, fotografia, cidade,” during the 13 Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA) Conference University of Reading, Berkshire, United K ingdom April 2013 “The Permanence of the Transient: Precariousness in Art,” with Caroline Menezes, during the 39th Annual Association of Art Historians Conference Latin American Studies Association, San Francisco, CA, USA May 2012 “When is Art Brazilian?,” during the XXX International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill, NC, USA February 2012 “New Paradigms: Activism and Interventions in the Latin American Visual Arts,” during the 2012 UNCDuke Consortium in Latin American and Caribbean Studies
T E A C H IN G E X P E R IE N C E B r o w n U n iv ersity , P r o v id e n c e , R I , U SA • Picturing Paradise: Art and Science in the Americas (co-taught with Iris Montero)
Fall 2016
Maroja 5 • Cannibalism, Inversion, and Hybridity: Creative Disobedience in the Americas • Revolutionary Forms: 100 Years of Art and Politics in Latin America D u k e U n iv ersity , D u rh a m , N C , U SA Bass Teaching Fellow • Pop Art in Latin America (Prof. Esther Gabara) Instructor of Record • Introduction to Art History (Renaissance to the Present)
Spring 2016 Fall 2015
Spring 2015 Summer 2012
Teaching Assistant Fellow 2008-2012 • Introduction to Art History (Renaissance to the Present), Prof. Hans Miegroet (2010) and Prof. Mark Antliff (2012) • Pilgrimage and Tourism, Prof. Annabel Wharton (2010, 2011) • History of Impressionism, Prof. Mark Antliff (2009) • Digital Perspectives: Navigating the Virtual, Prof. William Seaman (2009) • Modern Architecture, Prof. Annabel Wharton (2008)
A D V IS IN G A N D M E N T O R IN G B r o w n U n iv ersity , P r o v id e n c e , R I , U SA • Undergraduate theses (second reader)
Fall 2015 / Spring 2016
Isabela Muci Barradas, Maya Sorabjee, Maya Code-Williams R E S E A R C H E X P E R IE N C E Global Brazil Lab, John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University, NC, USA Research Fellow Fall 2014 Coordinated undergraduate students conducting research in the lab and acted as interface between invited lecturers and Duke students. Also conducted preparatory research and wrote grant applications for an exhibition on Pop Art in the Americas (1965-1975) at the Nasher Museum (Fall 2018), coordinating with the Instituto Rubens Gerchman and art collectors. Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York, NY, USA Invited Researcher August 2012 Conducted research for the e-books Jesús Soto in conversation with/en conversación con Ariel Jiménez and Tomás Maldonado in conversation with/en conversación con María Amalia García. Conducted research on primary sources (documents and iconographic material) to be integrated into the digital publications, contacted scholars and archives, and obtained copyright for the images Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (MNBA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Researcher Conducted research on artists’ biographies and for exhibition catalogues
1998-1999
Cinemateca do Museu de Arte Moderna (MAM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Researcher Conducted research for exhibition catalogues and curated and organized film screenings
1998
C U R A T O R IA L A N D A R T IS T IC E X P E R IE N C E N a s h e r M u s e u m o f A r t a t D u k e U n iv ersity , D u rh a m , N C , U SA Co-curator for the exhibition Eat, Pray, Weave: Peruvian Art from the Nasher Collection Curated and wrote labels for the Textiles and Visual Literacy sections Sept. 15–Jan. 13, 2013
Maroja 6 La Fenice Theater, Venice; La Scala di Milano, Milan; and Teatro Comunale di Treviso, Treviso, Italy Costume Designer Executed costumes and props for opera productions in La Fenice Theater, Venice
2006-2008
Prague Quadrennial, Prague, Czech Republic Co-curator of the Costume Section Curated and made the display for the Brazilian Costume Pavilion
2003
Film Co-Director O Mundo de um Filme / The World of a Film, directed by Daniel Caetano, Clara Linhart, and Camila Maroja – 50 min. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Included in the DVD of the complete works of the director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade (launched in Brazil and France, 2008)
S E R V IC E T O T H E F IE L D A r te o lo g ie , R e c h e r c h e s s u r le s a r ts , le p a r tr im o in e e t la lite r a tu r e d e l’A m é r iq u e L a tin e , P a ris , F ra n c e External Reviewer December 2015 D u k e U n iv ersity , D u rh a m , N C , U SA “The Contemporary Black Atlantic: Exchanges between Africa and Brazil.” Interdisciplinary event with artist Rosana Paulino, curator Gabriela Salgado, and Scholar Emi Koide Co-Organizer April 2015 “The Global Brazil Conference” Co-Organizer
March 2015
Convergence 2012: Inaugural Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics Conference Co-Organizer and Workshop Discussant November 2012 Decolonial Workshop: Decolonizing Aesthetics Invited Discussant
November 2012
Intermezzo: Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies Bi-Weekly Colloquia Co-Organizer
2011-2013
Art, Art History & Visual Studies Graduate Symposium Committee Member and Co-Organizer
2009, 2011
P R O F E SSIO N A L A F F IL IA T IO N S • College Art Association (CAA), since 2008 • Association of Art Historians (AAH), since 2011 • Latin American Studies Association (LASA), since 2011 • The International Council of Museums (ICOM), since 2013 • Brazilian Studies Association (BRASA), since 2015
• Native Speaker: Portuguese
LANGUAGES
• Near Native Speaker: English and Italian • Highly Proficient: French and Spanish
Maroja 7 R E F E R E N C ES IN THE US Dr. Esther Gabara Associate Professor of Romance Studies, and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University Tel: 919-660-3111 | Fax: 919-684-4029 | Email:
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[email protected] Dr. Walter Mignolo William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities at Duke University Tel: 919-668-2151 | Email:
[email protected] Dr. John D. French Duke Professor of History and African and African-American at Duke University Tel: 919-684-2536 | Fax: 919-‐681-7670 | Email:
[email protected] Dr. Sheila Bonde Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Professor of Archeology at Brown University Tel: 401-863-3134 | Email:
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