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GALLATIN SCHOOL OF INDIVIDUALIZED STUDYoffers a new framing for and insight into two of the most transformative movements of the20th century and their common dream of the world as a total sign system. Meltzer is beginningwork on her second book project, tentatively titled Group Photo:The Psycho-PhotographicProcess and the Making of Group Identity, which will explore the proposition that group identity—atleast since the invention of photography, if not before—has at its foundation somethingwe might call a psycho-photographic process. Meltzer has published articles, exhibitionessays, and reviews on the work of Vito Acconci, Jeanne Dunning, Roberto Jacoby, RobertMorris,Robert Smithson,Larry Sultan and PeterWegner,among others.Her course offeringsinclude “The Photographic Imaginary,”“TheThingliness ofThings,”“Psychoanalysis and theVisual,”“What Was Conceptualism, and Why Won’t It Go Away?” and “Feeling, in Theory.”M. Bella MirabellaAssociate ProfessorB.A. 1970, CUNY (Lehman College); Ph.D. 1979, RutgersBella Mirabella, associate professor of literature and humanities, specializes in Renaissancestudies, with a focus on drama, theater, performance and gender. She is the editor the book,Ornamentalism:The Art of Renaissance Accessories; co-editor of Left Politics and the LiteraryProfession, and has written articles on women, performance and sexual politics in the MiddleAges and the Renaissance, including “Mute Rhetorics: Women, Dance, and the Gaze inRenaissance England,”“‘Quacking Delilahs’:Female Mountebanks in Early Modern Englandand Italy,” and “‘A Wording Poet:’ Othello Among the Mountebanks,” as well as “QueenElizabeth and the Dance of Diplomacy.”Her current work includes an analysis of place, objectand performance in the Renaissance. Since 1987, Professor Mirabella has directed andtaught Gallatin’s Renaissance Humanities Seminar in Florence, Italy. She has receivedGallatin’s Adviser of Distinction Award as well as NYU’s Great Teacher Award.Ali MirsepassiProfessorB.A. 1974,Tehran; M.A. 1980, Ph.D. 1985,AmericanAli Mirsepassi is professor of Middle Eastern studies and sociology at the Gallatin School anddirector of Iranian Studies Initiative at NewYork University. In addition, he is associated facultyat the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies department and affiliated faculty at the Sociologydepartment in the College of Arts of Science. From 2002 to 2007, he held severaladministrative posts in the Gallatin School Dean’s Office, most notably serving as the School’sinterim dean for two years. He was a Carnegie Scholar (2007-2009). Professor Mirsepassitaught at Hampshire College,Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, andthe University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His teaching interests include social theories ofNewYork University Bulletin 2012-2013 37