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Email: mary.coffey@dartmouth.edu Phone: 603-646-4066 Office: 6033 Carpenter Hall
Education
B.A. Indiana University; M.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Areas of Expertise
Latin American and Mexican culture and art; cultural studies; gender and art; politics and Mexican art; murals; Mexican Modernism; José Clemente Orozco; Frida Kahlo; Diego Rivera
Selected Works
"'The Mexican Problem': Nation and 'Native' in Post-Revolutionary Muralism and Cultural Discourse," revised and anthologized, in The Social and the Real: Political Art in the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere, A Anreus, D Linden, and J Weinberg (eds.) (2006) 43-70.
"Angels and Prostitutes: José Clemente Orozco's Catharsis and the Politics of Female Allegory in 1930s Mexico," CR: The New Centennial Review, 4:2 (2004) 1-33.
"HOGging the Road: Cultural Governance and the Citizen Cyclist," with J Packer, Cultural Studies, 18:5 (July 2004) 641-674.
"From Nation to Community: Museums and the Reconfiguration of Mexican Society Under Neo-Liberalism," in Foucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality, J Z Bratich, J Packer, and C McCarthy (eds.) (2003) 207-242.
"What Puts the Culture in Multiculturalism? An Analysis of Culture, Government, and Mexican Identity," in Multicultural Curriculums, C McCarthy and R Mahalingam (eds.) (2000) 37-55.
Current Projects
Sanctuaries of the Patria: Museums, Mural Art, and the Mexican Nation-State, 1934-2000; The Art of Governance: Visual Culture in Greater Mexico
