Name: Dr. Andrea Matallana

Affiliation: Professor in the Department of Historical and Social Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella University and the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center (UBA), Argentina

Email: amatallana@utdt.edu / andreajmatallana@gmail.com

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Dr. Andrea Matallana is Professor in the Department of Historical and Social Studies of the Torcuato Di Tella University and the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center (UBA), Argentina

Educational Qualifications:

• Ph. D in History (Best Postgraduate Average, 2002). Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
• Master of Social Science Research. 2000. (Thesis approved with honors) 2000, Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Degree in Sociology, 1992. Professor in Sociology 1993 Universidad de Buenos Aires
• Master in Latin American Esthetics (UNDV, in progress)

Professional Information Presents Position:

• University of Torcuato Di Tella: Professor: European History; Latin American History; U.S., History
• Seminar on Methodology in Social Sciences. University of Buenos Aires: Sociology of Culture. Seminar at R. Rojas Cultural Center

Professional Activities:

• Director of the Group of Cultural Studies. University Torcuato Di Tella since 2015
• Member of Latin American Culture Program. University of Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas

Research Founding and Grants:

• Fulbright Commission, Ministry of Education Argentina, 2017. Research Scholarship. 2017 (Research Fellowship at UC Davis, Dec 2018
• Ministry of Culture, Research Project 2017
• Terra Foundation for American Arts, Travel Grant, 2016/2017
• Fulbright Commission, at MIAS, New York University, 2012
• Ministry of Science and Technology, Postdoctoral Scholarship, 2004-2008 Specialization for Preservation of Historical Heritage, University of Extremadura - CEXECI, Spain, 2009
• National Endowment for the Arts, Research, 1997

Short List of Relevant Publications (Books):

• Nelson Rockefeller and art diplomacy in Latin America, Eudeba, October 2021
• Tango between two Americas. Representations in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century. Eudeba, Buenos Aires, 2016 Increased and improved edition of the one published by A Contracorriente Editorial, Georgia State University 2013
• Delicacies and Flavors. From Doña Petrona to the present day. Editorial Capital Intellectual, 2015
• Jaime Yankelevich: Opportunity and audacity. Intellectual Capital, 2013
• What the pitucos know. The tango experience from 1910 to 1940. Editorial Prometeo, Buenos Aires, 2009
• Crazy for Radio. A social history of radio in Argentina 1923-1947, Buenos Aires, Prometeo 2006
• Humor and Politics. A comparative study of three political humor publications. Buenos Aires, Eudeba, 2000

Articles and Chapters:

• Informal Empire: The process of exposing Latin American art under the Good Neighbor policy. The Case of the MoMA Collection, 1943
• Inventing Latin America Under the Good Neighborhood Policy: The Case of the MoMA Collection, 1943, in International Journal of Culture and Art Studies (IJCAS) Vol. 6 No. 1 (2022)
• Latin American Art and Good Neighbor Policy: Lincoln Kirstein and the MoMA Collection, 1943 in Latin America. Journal of Latin American Studies, No. 74, UNAM
• "Building the concept of North American art in South America. The role of Grace Morley in the beginnings of the Art Commission in the Office of Inter-American Affairs", Art and Research No. 18. National University of La Plata. 2020
• "An American friend: Lincoln Kirstein in Argentina in the years of the Good Neighbor policy." Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, vol. 38, 2020, p. 132-154
• Gardel Anchored in New York. Chapter in The Mute of Tango. Eight studies on Carlos Gardel. National Institute of Musicology "Carlos Vega", 2020
• Tango Travelers: Anchored in New York, Postgraduate in History Bulletin No. 8, 2016
• Between phonographs and radios: diffusion of tango in the first decades of the 20th century in Mirta Varela (et al.) REHIME, Buenos Aires, 2016
• “Paris and New York: Presences and absences in the poetics of tango”. In Oscar Conde (editor). The poetics of the tango-song. Ruptures and continuities”. Buenos Aires, Byblos, 2014
• “Inventing commercial radio: notes for a biography of Jaime Yankelevich”, RIIM Yearbook, 2013
Reviews: “Creating Carmen Miranda: Race, Camp, and Transnational Stardom. By Kathryn Bishop- Sanchez”. HAHR, Vol.98, Issue 2, mayo 2018

Past Professional Activities:

• Associated Director of Graduate Program, History Department, Di Tella University (2009-2014)
• Coordinator at Cultural Program, University of Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas 2003-2007
• Consultant for presentations to CONEAU accreditation (Educational Ministry), curriculum design for History, business, Economy and Education

Membership and Association:

• Association for Latin American Art
• Latin American Studies Association

Editorial Boards and Evaluation Projects:

• Journal of Critical History, Department of History University of the Andes Bogotá, Colombia
• Journal of Works and Communications, History Department, Faculty of Humanities and Education Sciences, UNLP
• Evaluation Project FONDECYT (Research Council. Chile) 2002 2003/2004
• Bulletin of the Postgraduate in History, History Department, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella
• Member of the scientific committee of the II International Congress of Comics, 2012, 2014