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Megan Sullivan specializes in the practices and theories of modernism in Latin America. Her research and teaching interests extend to abstraction, the intersection of modernism with craft practices, popular culture, and the relationship between aesthetic modernism and social and economic modernization in the North Atlantic and Latin America. She is the author of 'Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America' (Yale University Press, 2022) and co-editor of 'The Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American/Latina/o Art' (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021). Her writing has appeared in ArtMargins, Art History, Illapa Mana Tukukuq, Latin American Latinx Visual Culture, nonsite.org, and the Oxford Art Journal. Currently, she is working on a book project titled 'Twentieth-Century Peruvian Art: Episodes in the History of Modernism,' which examines the evolution of modern art in Peru from approximately 1920 to 1980 against the backdrop of various interpretations of indigenous and vernacular art. In 2023, she was awarded the Dedalus Senior Fellowship for this project. Additionally, she co-organized an international workshop on modern art in the Andes in 2022 and serves as co-editor of ArtMargins, published by MIT Press.
Department of Philosophy