Dr Ana Gabriela Rodríguez

Ana Gabriela Rodríguez is an Associate Lecturer specialising in postwar and contemporary Latinx, American, Latin American, and Caribbean art. She holds a BA from Brown University and an MA from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. She completed her PhD at The Courtauld Institute of Art in 2023-2024 and was supervised by Dr Klara Kemp-Welch. Her doctoral thesis, titled Puerto Rican Graphic Arts and the Cold War: Bridging Workshops and Crossing Borders, 1950-1970, focused on Puerto Rican and Latinx graphic arts within the broader global contexts of the Cold War. Considering print, film, and photography in conjunction with the transnational commercialisation and mass media coverage of war, her thesis examined the ways in which these mediums revealed an alternate picture of the utopia of postwar modernisation. Ana was 2020-2021 predoctoral fellow in Latinx Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and was awarded a 2021-2022 Covid-19 extension. Her research and travel have been supported by the Smithsonian Institution, The Courtauld Institute of Art, CAA, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. She has previously taught at The Courtauld Institute of Art and UCL.