Litia Perta

Faculty, Language & Thinking Program

Biography: Litia Perta (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is a Professor of Art at the University of California Irvine where she teaches Art Writing and Critical & Curatorial Studies. She received her PhD from the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California Berkeley in 2007 and was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow at Wesleyan University until 2009. She has taught critical theory in Art Departments at Parsons The New School for Design and The Cooper Union and has been a faculty member of Bard College's Language & Thinking program since 2009. Through lyrical non-fiction, critical theory and performance, her research mobilizes an interdisciplinary examination of the ways in which non-normative subjectivities, particularly those that have been historically marginalized, come to personhood through art. Perta’s recent work has been included in the catalogues Double Life: Haegue Yang, Wu Tsang and Jérôme Bel (Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX, 2015), Anyone Telling Anything is Telling that Thing by Eve Fowler (Printed Matter, New York, NY, September 2013) and Dear Nemesis: Nicole Eisenman 1993-2013 (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO, April 2014). Her essays have also been published by Randy Magazine (September, 2013), Night Gallery's Night Papers (Vol.6 edited by Sarah Lehrer Graiwer and Kate Wolf), and Capricious Magazine (Vol.2 Issue no.15 Boundaries, 2014). Her contributions to The Brooklyn Rail can be found in the journal's online archives.
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Department: Language and Thinking Program