Delia Annunziata Cosentino



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DELIA ANNUNZIATA COSENTINO Assistant Professor Department of Art and Art History DePaul University 1150 West Fullerton Avenue Chicago, IL 60657 Department Phone: (773) 325-7565 Email: dcosent1@depaul.edu Education Ph.D., Art History, University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, Winter 2002 Pre-Columbian and Colonial Latin American Art, Minors: Renaissance, Islamic, Medieval Art Dissertation: Landscapes of Lineage: Nahua Pictorial Genealogies of Early Colonial Tlaxcala, Mexico M.A., Art History, University of California, Los Angeles, March 1996 Thesis: Zinacantepec's Tree of Saint Francis: Cross-cultural roots and Colonial Blossoms in a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Mural B.A., Art History, University of California, Santa Cruz, June 1992 (Honors) Semester abroad: Fundación Ortega y Gasset, Toledo, Spain, spring 1991, Honors Research Interests Early Colonial Mexican art Nahua art, ideology and society Franciscan art in the Americas Aztec and other pre-Columbian art Positions Held Assistant Professor, Art History, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, January 2002-present Colonial Latin American Art History; Principles of Latin American Art; "Syncretism" and the Art of Sixteenth-Century Mexico; Principles of Art History Teaching Assistant, UCLA, Department of Art History, September 1996-June 1998 Ancient, Medieval, Non-Western, and Pre-Columbian Survey Courses Instructor, Los Angeles City College, Department of Art, January 1997-May 1997 Non-Western Art History Survey Class Research Assistant, UCLA, Department of Art History, September 1994-September 1996 Library and Collections work for Professor Cecelia Klein, UCLA Assistant to the Director of Education, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA Writing and Organization of Educational Materials, September1997-June 1998 Archaeological Assistant, Xunantunich Archaeological Project, Cayo District, Belize Drawing, Photography and Minor Excavations, January 1994-June 1994 Additional Related Experience Intern, Fowler Museum of Cultural History, Department of Registration, UCLA, 9/94-9/96 Archivist, Private 19th-century Lithography Collection, Beverly Hills, California 9/93-1/94 English Teacher, ILE International, Mexico City, 1/93-4/93 Bilingual Art Educator, The Art Box, Museum of Santa Cruz County, 9/91-6/92 Gallery Intern, Sesnon Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), 9/91-6/92 Production Manager & Intern, City on a Hill Newspaper, UCSC, 9/89-6/90 Publications [Forthcoming] Los Tesoros de Zinacantepec: Arte Colonial en el Monasterio de San Miguel, a bilingual publication from the Colegio Mexiquense, Toluca, Mexico [2002] [Forthcoming] "The Tallest, Fullest and Most Beautiful: The Tree in Pre-Columbian and Colonial Mexico," in The Mexican Tree of Life: From Earth to Art, Fowler Museum Exhibition Catalogue, UCLA, Los Angeles, [2003] "Under the Shadow of God: Roots of Primitivism in Early Colonial Mexico" in Primitivism and Identity in Latin America: Essays on Art, Literature, and Culture, ed. Erik Camayd-Freixas and Jose Eduardo Gonzalez, University of Arizona Press, 2000 "Unit 4: The Pan-African Movement and Kente in the United States" in Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity, A Curriculum Resource Unit. Los Angeles: Fowler Museum of Cultural History, UCLA. July 1998 Conference Papers and Lectures "The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same: Pictorial Genealogies of Sixteenth-Century Tlaxcala." Conference on "Cultural Change in Sixteenth Century Mexico," University of Vienna, June 2002 "Aztec Family Trees of Sixteenth-Century Mexico." The Mexican Cultural Institute, Washington DC, June 2000 "Aztec Manuscripts and Other Painted Pages of Ancient Mexico." Symposium on the Americas, "A Celebration of Culture," Organization of American States, Washington DC, April 2000 "Nahua Pictorial Genealogies." The Pre-Columbian Society of Washington DC, March 2000 "In the House: Society and Symbolism in the Nahua Genealogies of Tlaxcala." Association of Latin American Art's Open Session at the College Art Association annual conference, New York City, February 2000 "Ties that Bind: Family and Land in Sixteenth-Century Mexico." Dumbarton Oaks Research Report Series, Washington DC, December 14, 1999 "Landscapes of Lineage: Nahua Pictorial Genealogies of Colonial Mexico." Bowditch Roundtable, Peabody Museum, Harvard University, December 2, 1999 "From One Family to Another: A Dialogue of Genealogies in Colonial Mexico." Conference on "Speaking in Signs: Cultures of Communication in the Early Americas," McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, September 1999. "Zinacantepec's Tree of Saint Francis." Mesoamerican Network, Department of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, May 1998 "Saint Francis at the Crossroads: A Sixteenth-Century Mexican Mural." "Early Transatlantic Connections," Claremont Graduate Student Symposium, March, 1997 Field Research Central Mexico, Dissertation research as a Fulbright Fellow, September 1998-June 1999 Mexico City, Dissertation research, National Archives, June 1997, National Museum, March 1997 Peru, Documentation of Inca past and present, Cuzco, Nazca, Arequipa, Paucartambo, July 1998 Toluca Valley, Mexico, Master's research on a colonial Franciscan mural, July 1995 Central America (Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua), Maya studies, January-July 1994 Languages Advanced spoken and written Spanish Intermediate Classical Nahuatl Intermediate Italian, French and German comprehension