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SHELLEY HORNSTEIN
BA, MA, PhD (Strasbourg)
Associate Professor: Architectural history and visual culture
Department of Visual Arts, York University
Professor Hornstein's research focuses on the examination of concepts of place and spatial politics in architectural and urban sites. She is widely published on modern and contemporary art and architecture including medicalized geographies in 19th century Montreal, leisure sites and workers' housing for a chocolate baron in Anticosti and France, and how ar
chitecture captures memory in cities. With Professors Carol Zemel and Reesa Greenberg, she is co-creator of Project Mosaica, the first online contemporary Cultural Space devoted to Jewish culture.
Dr. Hornstein's most recent publication is Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place (Ashgate, 2011), a book based on research she conducted as the 2007-08 recipient of the Walter L. Gordon Fellowship. She is co-editor of Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions, and the Value(s) of Art (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000) and Image and Remembrance: Representation and The Holocaust (Indiana University Press, 2002).
Professor Hornstein taught in York's Atkinson Faculty of Liberal and Professional Studies from 1985 to 2002, when she joined the Faculty of Fine Arts. She is a member of the Graduate Programs in Art History, Visual Arts, Culture and Communications, Women's Studies, and Social and Political Thought.
Selected Publications
Books:
2011 Losing Site: Architecture, Memory and Place (Ashgate Studies in Architecture).
2003 Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust, Shelley Hornstein, Laura Levitt and Larry Silberstein, eds. (New York University Press).
2002 Image and Remembrance; Representation and the Holocaust, Shelley Hornstein and Florence Jacobowitz, eds. (Indiana University Press).
2000 Capital Culture: A Reader on Modernist Legacies, State Institutions and the Value(s) of Art, Shelley Hornstein and Jody Berland, eds. (Montreal: McGill Queens University Press).
Other Publications:
2004 "Greetings from Here: Architectural Voyages in Postcards," Translating Tourism, Oriana Palusci and Sabrina Francesconi, eds. (Universita di Trento Press), forthcoming.
2004 "Matters Immaterial: On the Meaning of Houses and the Things Inside Them," Rachel Whiteread, Christopher Townsend, ed. (Thames and Hudson), forthcoming.
2004 "Invisible Topographies of Paris: Looking for the Memorial de la Deportation," Abstraction/Figuration, Charlotte Benton, ed. (Ashgate Press and the Henry Moore Institut) forthcoming.
2004 "Ornament, Boundaries and Mourning, after Auschwitz: Charlotte Salomon and Chantal Akerman say Kaddish," in Charlotte Salomon, Monica Bohm-Duchen and Michael Steinberg, eds. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press), forthcoming.
2004 "Passages and the Memorial to Walter Benjamin at Portbou," The Sculpture Journal, January.
2004 "Re-Marks on the Site of History," Das Judische Museum in Berlin: Ausstellungsszenario versus architektonisches Monument in Kritische Berichte (forthcoming).
2002 Catalogue essay in honour of Peter Eisenman, Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia.
2000 Architectural Memory and Strasbourg National Identity for Strasbourg 1900, edited by Klaus Nohlen, Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporaine, (Editions Sogomy) Strasbourg.
2000 "Ortsverlust - Architektur, Geographie und Erinnerung in Chantal Akermans `Bordering on Fiction'" Denkmale und kulturelles Gedachtnis nach dem Ende der Ost-West-Konfrontation (Berlin: Akademie der Kunste - Jovis).
2000 Nothing to See: Private Mourning in Public Art, in Memory and Oblivion (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers)