Bio/CV:
Elise Archias is Associate Professor of Art History at University of Illinois, Chicago. She is the
author of The Concrete Body: Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci (2016, winner
of the Frank Jewett Mather award for art criticism), co-editor of the Arts special issue, "Dance
and Abstraction" (2020), and editor of the special double issue for nonsite, "Contemporary Art
and the PMC, Parts I and II" (2021, 2022). In November 2024, she gave a lecture at The
Courtauld drawn from her current book project on Joan Michell and Melvin Edwards called "Art
and Management."
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