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Maria Fernandez

Maria Fernandez is an art historian whose interests center on post-colonial studies, electronic media theory, Latin American colonial and modern art, and the intersections of these fields. She has been influential in the formation of colonial studies in art history, applying postcolonial theory and cultural history to art history and historiography; and is also active in postcolonial and multicultural critiques of electronic media art. Her recent publications include an essay on the work of Mexican-Canadian artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, titled Iluminacion Postcolonial / Postcolonility in the Spotlight , Alzado Vectorial / Vectorial Elevation (Mexico City: Conaculta y Ediciones San Jorge, 2000); Postcolonial Media Theory Third Text, 47 (summer, 1999), with an expanded version in Art Journal (fall 1999). She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York, in 1993, and has since taught at various institutions including the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Connecticut at Storrs.