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Alum News: Johanna Gosse, History of Art PhD '14, named Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia

September 3, 2015
 Johanna Gosse, History of Art PhD '14, named Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

(PhD History of Art, 2014) has been named the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University, a two-year post that begins with the Fall 2015 term.

Johanna's research focuses on the history and theory of the postwar American avant-garde, experimental film and video, and new media. Her dissertation, 鈥淐inema at the Crossroads: Bruce Conner鈥檚 Atomic Sublime, 1958-2008,鈥 explores the work of the influential experimental filmmaker Bruce Conner in a context of counter-culture and Cold-War era politics. An article on Conner, 鈥淧op, Collaboration, Utopia: Bruce Conner鈥檚 BREAKAWAY in 1960s Los Angeles,鈥 is forthcoming in the journal (89).

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