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Biography
Prof. Jordan is an Associate Professor of Art History at Lehman College where she has taught introductory and advanced courses online and in-person for undergraduates since Fall 2011. Each Fall semester, she teaches the MFA/MA art history seminar course on a new topic of her development, including the recent courses Ninth Street Women and Abstract Expressionism; Public Art in the US in the Modern Era; Duchamp and Dada; Surrealism; Picasso; and Vienna 1900.
Her book publication, Two-Steps Ahead of the Century: Jazz and Art (Hamburg: EarBooks, 2017) explored the influence of ragtime and jazz on leading European and American artists of the 20th Century and included over 100 full–color illustrations of artworks and three music CDs of jazz. Her essay “‘The Rhythm of Our Time is Jazz’: Popular Entertainment during the Weimar Republic” was included in the Neue Galerie New York’s Berlin Metropolis exhibition catalogue (2015).
Prof. Jordan’s primary area of research is German modernism. She was recently invited to present “Max Beckmann, Popular Entertainment and the Tightrope Walk of Life” at the Neue Galerie New York in 2023, in conjunction with their exhibition Max Beckmann: The Formative Years, 1915 – 1925. Her ongoing research into the connections between German art and the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche has resulted in her participation in the Rethinking Kirchner international conference and book publication, sponsored by Kirchner Museum, Davos, and Art Centre, Basel (2018) and the essay “He is a Bridge: The Importance of Friedrich Nietzsche for Ernst Ludwig Kirchner” included in the exhibition catalogue Ernst Ludwig Kirchner at the Neue Galerie (2019).
She lives in New York City where she can be found visiting gallery exhibitions accompanied by Dewey, her dog.