Faculty

Elizabeth Adan

Sky Bergman

Jefferson Clarke

Daniel Dove

Giancarlo Fiorenza

Tera Galanti

Robert Howell

Chuck Jennings

George Jercich

Eric Johnson

Mary LaPorte

Enrica Lovaglio

Charmaine Martinez

Kathryn McCormick

Michael Barton Miller

Brian Priest

Dr. Jean Wetzel

Elizabeth Adan

Assistant Professor

Art History

Phone: 805.756.1564

Email: eadan@calpoly.edu

Office: 34-143

Elizabeth Adan joined the Department of Art and Design in Fall 2007. She received an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Contemporary Art, Religion, and Cultural Analysis with a Doctoral Emphasis in Women's Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara in 2006. She also holds an MA in Rhetoric (U.C. Berkeley, 2000) and an MFA in Studio Art (U.C. Santa Barbara, 1997). In 2000-01 she was a Critical Studies Fellow in the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Prior to coming to Cal Poly, she taught in the Women's Studies Program and the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at UCSB, and she has also worked as a curator and freelance arts administrator. Her research interests include modern and contemporary art, feminist and critical theory, and performance and ritual studies. She is currently working on a book on the role and use of the body in contemporary art from the 1970s to the present.

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