Dr. Amelia Maria Miholca
Contact Information
Biography
Dr. Amelia Miholca received her Ph.D. in art history from Arizona State University. Her area of specialization is 20th century art. Among her many research interests, she has published on the Romanian avant-garde movement and is researching Holocaust art in Eastern Europe as it relates to issues of memorialization and representation during the Cold War and in current times. In addition to teaching remotely at the 糖心Vloge, Dr. Miholca teaches at Arizona State University. She resides in Charlotte, North Carolina with her husband Marco and their baby boy Matteo.
Education
Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2021 (art history)
M.A., Arizona State University, 2014 (art history)
B.F.A., Arizona State University, 2012 (painting)
Teaching and Research Interests
糖心Vloge Courses Taught: History of Graphic Design; Art of the 20th Century Survey; Ancient to Medieval Art Survey; Renaissance to 19th Century Art Survey.
Arizona State University Courses Taught: upper-level seminar ARS 498 Theories of Modern Sculpture; Holocaust Memorialization and Representation.
Published Research
Book Chapters:
(Peer-Reviewed) 鈥淒ada in Romania: How Romanian Avant-Garde Magazines Celebrated Dada.鈥 From Janco to the 21st Century: Dada and Its Legacy. Ronit Milano, Raya Zommer-Tal and Noam Gonnen (eds.) Routledge, 2024.
(Peer-Reviewed) 鈥淏etween Zurich and Romania: A Dada Exchange.鈥 Narratives Crossing Borders: Transcultural Perspectives Anthology. Herbert Jonsson, Lovisa Berg, Chatarina Edfeldt, Bo G. Jansson (eds.). Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm University Press, 2021.123-144.
Journals:
(Peer Reviewed) 鈥淩e-envisioning Cubism in Romanian Avant-Garde Magazines.鈥 Journal of Romanian Studies 3:1 (May 2021): 85-112.
(Peer Reviewed) 鈥淐onstantin Brancusi鈥檚 Involvement with African Art.鈥 Critical Interventions: Journal of African Art History and Visual Culture 9:3 (2015): 179-190.
(Peer Reviewed) 鈥淭he Construction of Brancusi鈥檚 Primitivism.鈥 Visual Past: A Journal for the Study of Past Cultures 1 (December 2014): 13-45.
Book Review:
(Peer Reviewed) 鈥淎lexandra Chiriac, Performing Modernism. A Jewish Avant-Garde in Bucharest.鈥 Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art. S茅rie Beaux-Arts. Tome LX (2023): 183 185.