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Leesa Rittelmann Assistant Professor Leesa Rittelmann earned her PhD and MA degrees in art history from the University of Pittsburgh and a BS in museum education from Pennsylvania State University. She teaches the history and theory of modern and contemporary art with a concentration on the history of photography, new media and gender studies. Her doctoral dissertation " Constructed Identities: The German Photobook from Weimar to the Third Reich" (2003) was supported in part by two German Academic Exchange Service Scholarships and an Andrew Mellon Pre-doctoral Fellowship. Rittelmann has delivered papers on topics as diverse as Victorian American photography, virtual digital woman, global eco-art, fetish theory in New Vision photography and the relationship between text and image in modern photographic books. In spring 2006, she will share new research on "Winold Reiss to Kara Walker: The Silhouette in Black American Art" at a conference in Germany. Previously Rittelmann taught at Whitman College and Hartwick College and served as a research assistant at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Art. She has published film reviews in the journal of Film and History, and is a contributor to Routledge's Encyclopedia of 20th Century Photography |
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