Dr. Talinn Grigor
Assistant Professor,
Modern Non-western Architecture
Islamic Art & Architecture
(post)Colonial & Critical Theory
PhD Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005
409 Fine Arts Building
(850) 644-7069
tgrigor@fsu.edu
Dr. Grigor's teaching interests focus on modern architectural history and theory; Islamic visual culture; orientalism, colonialism, and globalization; as well as nationalism & politics of identity vis-à-vis art. She has received the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship from Cornell University; the Ittleson Predoctoral Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in the National Gallery of Art; fellowships at the Open Society and Roshan Cultural Heritage institutes, as well as Aga Khan award at MIT. Dr. Grigor has numerous publications on the relation between architecture and political discourses and is, currently, finishing a book-manuscript, entitled Uneven Modernity: Power, Propaganda, and Architecture in Modern Iran. It traces the history of national patrimony, architectural culture, and ‘good taste’ in twentieth-century Iran. A forthcoming article in the Art Bulletin deals with her next project on the turn-of-the-century Euro pean art-historiography and its connections to the late 19th- and early 20th-century eclecticism of Qajar architecture.
Selected Publications
‘Orient oder Rom? Qajar “Aryan” Architecture and Strzygowski’s Art History,’ The Art Bulletin (Sept 2007): 562-590
‘Orientalism & Mimicry of Selfness: Neo-Achaemenid Style under the Qajars & the Pahlavis,’ Les orientalismes en
architecture à l'épreuve des savoirs archéologiques, historiques, techniques et artistiques, Nabila Oulebsir &
Mercedes Volait, eds. (Paris: Editions Picard/Collection INHA, 2007): forthcoming
‘From Ruins to Museums: an Archaeology of “Aryan” Hegemony,’ Archaeology and Sculpture: Subject/Object – New Studies in Sculpture, Thomas Dowson, ed., (Henry Moore Institute: Ashgate series, 2007), forthcoming
‘Transient Constructs: Soviet Monuments & those of their “Enemies”,’ Enemies of Empire: New Perspectives on Imperialism, Literature & History, Eóin Flannery & Angus Mitchell, eds. (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007), 113-129
‘The (inter)National of an Uneven Modernity: Architectural Politics in Pahlavi Iran,’ The DOCOMOMO Journal 35, special issue: Modern Architecture in the Middle East, Elvan Ergut & Belgin Ozkaya, eds.
(Sept 2006): 36-41
‘Ladies, Last! Perverse Spaces in a Time of Orthodoxy,’ Thresholds 32 (Fall 2006): 53-56
‘Preserving the Modern Antique: Persepolis ‘71,’ Future Anterior: Journal of Historical Preservation History Theory Criticism, Columbia University 2/1 (Summer 2005): 22-29
‘(re)Framing Modernit(ies): American Historians of Iranian Architecture, Phyllis Ackerman and Arthur Pope,’ ARRIS: Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians 15 (Sept 2004): 38-54
‘Recultivating “Good Taste”: the early Pahlavi Modernists and their Society for National Heritage,’ Journal of Iranian Studies 37/1 (March 2004): 17-45
‘Of Metamorphosis: Meaning on Iranian Terms,’ Third Text 17/3 (Sept 2003): 207-225
Courses Offered
- Of (post)Colonial Spaces
- Aesthetics of Uneven Development
- Survey of Islamic Art and Architecture
- Politics of Public Space in Islamic Societies
- Orientalism and Visual Culture
- Art and Revolution
- Social Constructs in Muslim Visual Culture
- History and Theory of Art I