l'Afrique

États-Unis d'Amérique

Assistant Professor

Rollins College

mmryan@rollins.edu

Department of Art and Art History
Rollins College
1000 Holt Avenue #2774
Winter Park, Florida 32789
USA

tel: 407-646-2274
fax: 407-698-6395

Tanzania

Ph.D. (2013) University of Florida
M.A. (2008) University of Florida
B.A. (2006) Hamline University (St. Paul, Minnesota)

Global networks of trade; manufactured and printed textiles, especially kanga; visual culture, dress, textiles, and fashion of East Africa, the Indian Ocean littoral, and the African continent; conceptions and transformations of visual art and culture over time and space; consumption and commodities and their use to create conceptions of self; understandings of shared and distinct cultural influences; colonialism in Africa; Modernism and Contemporary art, especially Contemporary African art

African art and art beyond the West, with a particular interest in textiles, fashion, trade, colonialism, contemporary art, and cross-cultural exchange

“The Emergence of the Kanga: A Distinctly East African Textile,” in Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas, ed. Susan Cooksey (Gainesville, FL: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, 2011), 128-131

African art history, textiles, cloth, kanga/khanga, East Africa, Swahili Coast, Tanzania, Zanzibar