Editors

Co-Editors-in-Chief
Joan Marter and Aliza Edelman
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Co-editor Joan M. Marter is Distinguished Professor Emerita at Rutgers University. A recipient of numerous prestigious honors, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Women’s Caucus for Art and a Distinguished Feminist Award from the College Art Association, Marter has edited and contributed to many critically acclaimed artist monographs, exhibition catalogues, and volumes, including the Grove Encyclopedia of American Art; Women of Abstract Expressionism (Yale Univ. Press/Denver Art Museum, 2016); Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists of Global Abstraction, 1940–1970 (Whitechapel, 2023); and Abstract Expressionists: The Women (Merrell, 2023).

Co-editor Aliza Rachel Edelman holds a B.A. from Smith College and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.
Her research interests span the modern Americas and the Middle East, with an emphasis on the art of the post-war United States and Brazil, the transnational histories of abstraction and concretism, and gender and sexuality in a global context. A regular contributor to WAJ, her scholarly work is published in international catalogues and volumes, including Judith Lauand: Desvio Concreto (Masp, 2022); Transnational Belonging and Female Agency in the Arts (Bloomsbury, 2022); Purity is a Myth: Materiality in Concrete Art in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay (Getty Research Institute, 2021); and American Women Artists, 1935–1970—Gender, Culture, and Politics (Routledge, 2016).

Book Reviews Editor
Melissa L. Mednicov

Melissa L. Mednicov is Associate Professor at Sam Houston State University. She received her Ph.D. in 2012 and M.A. in art history from Pennsylvania State University and her B.A. in art history from Smith College. Her first book, Pop Art and Popular Music: Jukebox Modernism, published with Routledge in 2018, offers an interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Her second book, Jewish American Identity and Erasure in Pop Art (published by Routledge in 2024), reconsiders Pop art within the context of Jewish artists, gallerists, and collectors in New York City in the 1960s​. Additionally, she works on research related to Texas Modernism, including the edited volume Monumental: The Art of David Adickes (published by Texas A&M University Press in 2025). Her essays have appeared in Art Journal, Panorama, Imago Musicae, and the collected volume The Global Sixties in Sound and Vision: Media, Counterculture, Revolt. Her contemporary art criticism has been published in the College Art Association’s caareviews and Glasstire.

Contributing Book Reviews Editor
Erin Devine

Erin Devine holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University. Her research has focused on the participation of transnational women artists within modern and contemporary global art contexts and on embodied strategies of representation, particularly in performance art, photography, and moving images. Recent publications include “Beyond Representation: The Evolution of Embodied Experience in Shirin Neshat’s Early Art” (WAJ 44.2, Fall/Winter 2023), Translation and Transgression in the Art of Shirin Neshat (Routledge 2023), and the chapter “Displaying Iran: Shirin Neshat in the Global Exhibition” in a forthcoming edited volume. While continuing to explore the work of women artists within the Iranian diaspora, Erin is also investigating the impact of the “muse” construct on perceptions of women artists and creativity in art history, a theme she has addressed through her own series of live and video performances.