New York University

Eve Meltzer is Assistant Professor of Visual Studies with research and teaching interests in the areas of contemporary art history and criticism, photography, material culture, and a range of philosophical and theoretical discourses including psychoanalysis, structuralism, and phenomenology. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoric from the University of California at Berkeley. From 2003 to 2006, she was a Stanford Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow in Stanford University's Department of Art and Art History, where she taught and began revising her dissertation for publication as a book. The book—which will appear in 2011—situates the conceptual art movement of the late 1960s and early 1970s in relation to the field of structuralist and post-structuralist thought and, in effect, offers a new framing for and insight into two of the most transformative movements of the 20th century and their common dream of the world as a total sign system. Professor Meltzer has published articles, exhibition essays, and reviews on the work of Vito Acconci, Jeanne Dunning, Roberto Jacoby, Robert Morris, Robert Smithson, Larry Sultan, and Peter Wegner, among others, and her writing has appeared in Oxford Art Journal, Frieze magazine, Cabinet, and fort da. Her course offerings include "The Photographic Imaginary"; "The Thingliness of Things"; "Psychoanalysis and the Visual"; and "What Was Conceptualism, and Why Won't It Go Away?"