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About Maureen Shanahan
I am a professor of art history at James Madison University (Virginia) and modernist specializing in the art and visual culture of France & its colonial empire during World War I and the interwar years through World War II. My new book now in print is: Machine Modernisms, Masculinity, and the Trauma of War: The Art of Fernand Léger (Penn State Univ Press, May 2024). (separate author pitch coming shortly) Focused on the iconic machine modernist, French Cubist Fernand Léger (1881-1955), the book uses psychoanalytic and gender theory to trace the legacy of war and historical trauma in Léger’s work and to analyze the contradictions and paradoxes of his art and writing during and after World War I.
My current book project, provisionally titled Pariahs in Paris: The French Colonial Subject in the Metropole, 1914-1939, investigates visual culture by and about French colonial soldiers and subjects in the Paris region from 1914-1939. Research for this project has been supported by an NEH seminar, a Fulbright, and Clark fellowship. I have also published a co-edited volume on Simón Bolívar as a contested cultural symbol of national identity and revolutionary politics; my essay analyzed operas about Bolívar, including set and costumes by Léger for a 1950 opera composed by Darius Milhaud.
I am primarily interested in the French Studies channel but could also contribute to many other channels such as: Arts & Letters; Gender Studies; Photography; History of Science; Photography; Film; Art; Middle East Studies (if connected to French empire); Psychoanalysis (especially re visual arts & culture).
NBN Episodes hosted by Maureen:
October 20, 2024
Mind the Ghost
Spectrality disrupts and fissures our conceptions of time, unmaking and complicating binaries such as life and death, presence and absence, the visibl…