Nadja Rottner, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. Her academic background includes a PhD and MA in Modern Art Critical Studies from Columbia University and an MA from Karl-Franzens University of Graz, Austria, where she also completed a Museum Studies Certificate. Prior to joining the University of Michigan-Dearborn, she taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, Hunter College, the New School for Social Research, and the California College of the Arts in Oakland/San Francisco. Dr. Rottner's research focuses on American art from 1945 onwards, with an emphasis on the intersections of visual arts, performance, literature, music, and film, as well as Latin American art from the same period. Her work examines the legacies of abstraction and collage/assemblage, participatory collaborative practices, intermediality in art, and the relationships between art, media theory, and cognitive science. She has published in several refereed journals and contributed to various platforms supporting the local arts community in Detroit. Her editorial works include notable books on artists like Ruth Vollmer and Claes Oldenburg. A forthcoming research monograph titled 'Claes Oldenburg’s Theater Vision: Poetry, Sculpture, Film, Performance Art' is set to be published by Routledge in Fall 2023.