Faculty

Melinda Barlow

Melinda Barlow (Ph.D., New York University), Associate Professor, taught at New York University, New York’s School of Visual Arts, and Queens College, CUNY, before coming to CU in 1996. The editor of Mary Lucier: Art and Performance (2000, Johns Hopkins University Press), Professor Barlow is a film and video historian and curator who specializes in the work of contemporary independent women film and video makers, and also writes about the art of mentoring women. She was recently awarded a grant from the LEAP (Leadership Education for Advancement and Promotion) organization at CU to investigate contemporary scholarship on pedagogy, race and gender, and has developed and organized more than 20 local and national workshops on mentoring over the last five years. Her article “In Praise of Positive Role Models” appeared in the National Education Association journal The Advocate in December 2005, and numerous essays on film and contemporary art have appeared in books and journals such as Joseph Cornell: Opening the Box (UK: Peter Lang, 2007), Un/Making the Cut: Feminism, Filmmaking, Fluidity (Wayne State UP, 2009), Camera Obscura, Quarterly Review of Film and Video, Millennium Film Journal, Art Journal, Performing Arts Journal, Art in America, Afterimage, Sculpture, American Theatre, and the Spanish animation journal Animac. Professor Barlow served as Curatorial Consultant for the exhibition “Locating Secret Psychological Space” at the Florida State Museum of the Arts in Tallahassee in 2007, and has written catalog essays on moving image installation for the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington D.C. (2001) and the exhibition “The Architecture of Desire” at Colorado College (2008).

A recipient of the Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Award in Video Criticism from the Video Data Bank as well as the Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award, the Gold Best Should Teach Award from the Graduate Teacher Program, the Dorothy Martin Woman Faculty Award, and the Junior Faculty Development Award from the University of Colorado, Professor Barlow was awarded a Fellowship from CU’s Center for the Humanities and the Arts in 2005 to participate in their “Powers of Wonder” Seminar. The founder of the Leah Kelly Memorial Award, the first CU Film Studies Program award in the critical study of cinema, Professor Barlow is the Honors Council representative for Film Studies, and the Faculty Advisor for the Undergraduate Academy Lead TA Pre-Prof Program. She teaches Film History I & II, Women and Film, courses on individual decades of American film history, and upper level seminars on topics such as Magic, Wonder & Cinema and Ephemeral Media: Film/Video/Installation. She is currently working on a series of essays on experimental filmmaker and miniature theatre artist Janie Geiser titled Curiosa in Motion and her book Lost Objects of Desire: Video Installation, Mary Lucier, and the Romance of History, is forthcoming from the University of Minnesota Press.

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