Presenter

Megan Sullivan

Art History

Megan Sullivan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History. Her scholarship focuses on twentieth-century Latin American art, with a particular emphasis on Brazil and Argentina. Her research and teaching interests include the global history of modernism (especially abstraction), the relationship of modernism and modernization in peripheral countries, and artistic engagements with landscape, nature, and territory in Latin America. "Locating Abstraction," her current book project, examines the origins and transformations of geometric abstraction in South America between 1945 and 1960.