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Julia Foulkes
Julia Foulkes investigates interdisciplinary questions about the arts, urban studies, and history in her research and teaching. Professor Foulkes's most recent book, A Place for Us: West Side Story and New York (2016), examines what this legendary musical and film reveal about mid-20th century New York. Her first book, Modern Bodies: Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey (2002), explores how gender, sexuality, race, and politics shaped the development of modern dance in the 1930s and ‘40s; her second book, To the City: Urban Photographs of the New Deal (2011), charts the spread of urbanization captured in photographs of the 1930s. She is the editor of a journal volume on “The Arts in Place” (Journal of Social History, 2010) and co-editor with Aaron Shkuda of a section of essays on arts and urban development in the Journal of Urban History (2015).
Foulkes is now curating an exhibition marking the 100th birthday of Jerome Robbins that will focus on his relation to New York; Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York will be open at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center from September 2018 to March 2019. She is also collaborating with the choreographer Netta Yerushalmy on a piece on Bob Fosse for Yerushalmy’s Paramodernities project, which will premiere at Jacob's Pillow in August 2018 and tour in 2019. She is currently researching the rise of New York as a capital of culture in the 20th century, her next book project.
With Mark Larrimore, Foulkes also researches and teaches about the history of The New School. They oversee a website devoted to exploring the unusual history and far reach of this institution. A 2014 exhibition, Offense + Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging, investigated three episodes when art roused protest at the New School. The exhibition brought forward the issues to today in fifty responses from faculty, students, and staff to an artwork or aspect of design that they encounter at the university every day that provokes them. Starting in Fall 2018, they will be editors of a vertical on the history of the New School at Public Seminar, the virtual intellectual commons of the New School. The New School celebrates its centenary in 2019.
Foulkes is now curating an exhibition marking the 100th birthday of Jerome Robbins that will focus on his relation to New York; Voice of My City: Jerome Robbins and New York will be open at the New York Public Library at Lincoln Center from September 2018 to March 2019. She is also collaborating with the choreographer Netta Yerushalmy on a piece on Bob Fosse for Yerushalmy’s Paramodernities project, which will premiere at Jacob's Pillow in August 2018 and tour in 2019. She is currently researching the rise of New York as a capital of culture in the 20th century, her next book project.
With Mark Larrimore, Foulkes also researches and teaches about the history of The New School. They oversee a website devoted to exploring the unusual history and far reach of this institution. A 2014 exhibition, Offense + Dissent: Image, Conflict, Belonging, investigated three episodes when art roused protest at the New School. The exhibition brought forward the issues to today in fifty responses from faculty, students, and staff to an artwork or aspect of design that they encounter at the university every day that provokes them. Starting in Fall 2018, they will be editors of a vertical on the history of the New School at Public Seminar, the virtual intellectual commons of the New School. The New School celebrates its centenary in 2019.
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