Ileana Selejan

Dr. Ileana L. Selejan is Lecturer in Art History, Culture and Society, at the Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. She was previously Research Fellow at the Decolonising Arts Institute (UAL), Associate Lecturer at Central St Martins and London College of Communication (UAL). As Research Associate in the Department of Anthropology at University College London, she participated in the European Research Council (ERC) funded project, “Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination.” From 2014 to 2016 she was the Linda Wyatt Gruber ’66 Curatorial Fellow in Photography at The Davis Museum at Wellesley College where she curated the exhibition “Charlotte Brooks at LOOK: 1951-1971.” She received her PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and was granted the 2012–13 Joan and Stanford Alexander Award for her research in Nicaragua. She has taught in the Photography and Imaging Department at Tisch School of the Arts, and in the Art History Department at NYU, at the Parsons School of Design, and in the Fine Arts Department at West University, Timisoara, Romania. Ileana also writes independently, and is a contributing member of kinema ikon and PhotoDemos research collective.