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NEW YORK UNIVERSITYforthcoming from Duke University Press (2012) and Zubaan,a leading feminist press in India.She teaches courses on globalization, India/South Asia, nationalism and colonialism, diasporicstudies, gender and feminism and ethnography.Julie MalnigAssociate ProfessorB.A. 1977, Douglass College; M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1987, NewYorkJulie Malnig is a cultural historian of theater and dance performance. Her areas of interest includesocial and popular dance; the history of popular entertainments; performance art; feministperformance and criticism; and performance writing.Among her courses at Gallatin areWritingAbout Performance;Gender and Performance;Proseminar:Text and Performance;andMaster’sThesis Seminar:Visual and Performing Arts. She is the author of DancingTill Dawn:ACentury of Exhibition Ballroom Dance (NYU Press, 1995) and the editor of Ballroom, Boogie,Shimmy Sham,Shake:A Social and Popular Dance Reader (University of Illinois Press,2009).Severalof her publications,which examine dance in the early 20th century,have focused on socialdance and class; media, advertising and early dance publications; and the intersections of earlyfeminism, the female body and dance. She is currently preparing a manuscript on dance andyouth culture of the 1950s.One of her recent essays is“All Is Not Right in the House ofAtreus:Feminist Theatrical Renderings of the Oresteia” in the collection Feminist Theatrical Revisionsof Classic Works (McFarland, 2009). From 1999 to 2003, Professor Malnig served as editor ofDance Research Journal, an international scholarly publication in dance studies published by theCongress on Research in Dance (CORD), and she also served as the editorial board chair ofCORD from 2003 to 2006.She is currently chair of the Gallatin InterdisciplinaryArts Program.In 2010 she was awarded the Gallatin School Excellence inTeaching Award.Eve MeltzerAssistant ProfessorB.A. 1993, Brown; M.A. 1998, Ph.D. 2003, California (Berkeley)Eve Meltzer is assistant professor of visual studies with research and teaching interests in theareas of contemporary art history and criticism, the history and theory of photography, materialculture and a range of philosophical and theoretical discourses including psychoanalysis,structuralism, phenomenology, and affect theory. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in rhetoricfrom the University of California at Berkeley. From 2003 to 2006, she was a Stanford HumanitiesPostdoctoral Fellow in Stanford University’s Department of Art and Art History.Herfirst book,SystemsWe Have Loved: Conceptual Art,Affect, and the AntihumanistTurn will be publishedby University of Chicago Press in 2013.The book situates the conceptual art movementof the late 1960s and early 1970s in relation to the field of structuralist thought and, in effect,36 NewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013