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Position: Post Doctoral Researcher/Research Associate
University of Applied Arts Vienna
Design History and Theory
Oskar Kokoschka Platz 2
1010 Vienna
Austria
Teaches (T) and/or researches (R) in:
2. History of the Jewish People: TR
Modern: TR
Biographical Studies: TR
8. Art, Architecture and Performing Arts: TR
60: Art (including iconography): R
Architecture (including synagogues): TR
9. Contemporary Studies: TR
65: Jews in the United States: R
68: Jewish identity and assimilation: R
73: Sociology (including population studies): R
74: Gender studies (including Women in Judaism, Feminism): R
Description
Elana Shapira is Senior Postdoctoral Fellow and Project Leader of the Austrian Science Fund research project “Visionary Vienna. Design and Society 1918–1934” in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. She is a lecturer at the University of Applied Arts. Shapira is the editor of the forthcoming edited volume Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Vienna Modernism/ Design Dialog: Juden, Kultur und Wiener Moderne (Böhlau, 2018). She is the author of Style and Seduction. Jewish Patrons and Modern Architecture, and Design in Fin de Siècle Vienna (Brandeis University Press, 2016) and coeditor of Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture (Bloosmbury, 2017). Shapira has organized two international symposiums: “Émigré Design Culture: Histories of the Social in Design” (University of Applied Arts Vienna, 2015) and “Design Dialogue: Jewish Contributions to Viennese Modernism” (Austrian Museum of Applied Arts Vienna, 2016). She is co-organizing with Dr. Daniela Finzi the international symposium “Freud and the Émigré: Austrian Émigrés and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain 1930s-1950s.” It will take place at the Freud Museum (November 8-9, 2018). Shapira has published extensively on Jewish patronage and modern architecture and design, on Jewish émigré designers and architects in the US and in Palestine, and on Expressionist art. Her forthcoming essay “Kiesler Facing Jerusalem: Narratives of National Rebirth in Kiesler’s Shrine of the Book” will be published in Peter Bogner and Gerd Zillner (eds.) Frederick Kiesler: Face-to-Face with the Avant-Garde, (Birkhäuser, 2018). She is currently working on organizing an international symposium as a follow-up to the symposium Design Dialogue (2016). It is titled “Designing Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism” (to take place in Vienna in May, 2019).
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