Curriculum Vitae
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Education
Dual-Title Ph.D., German Literature & Culture and Visual Studies, August 2023
Dissertation: Light/Play: Art, Vision, and Futures since 1920
The Pennsylvania State University
B.A., Art History, B.A., Global Affairs, minor in Religious Studies
Magna cum laude, May 2017.
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
Honors Thesis: "The Christianization of Pagan Ritual Space in Byzantine Athens"
Creative Experience
Calliope Creative Consulting
Founding DirectorMay 2023 - present
Art of the Rural
Programs AssistantAugust 2022 - January 2024
3 Dots Downtown
Marketing CoordinatorJanuary 2020 - June 2021
Palmer Museum of Art
Graduate Assistant, "Field Language: The Painting and Poetry of Warren and Jane Rohrer"June 2017 - April 2018
ARTECHOUSE
Visitor Experience CoordinatorJanuary 2016 - May 2016
American Institute for Contemporary German Studies
Research InternJune 2015 - August 2015
Galleria d’Arte Mentana
Intern
Academic Experience
The Pennsylvania State University
Adjunct Lecturer, College of Art & Architecture and German
AA 100: Introduction to International Arts, online (Fall 2023, Spring 2024)
GER 143/RUS 143: The Culture of Stalinism and Nazism (Spring 2024)
The Pennsylvania State University
Graduate Assistantship, Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures
Instructor of record, German 128N: Representations of the Holocaust in Film & Literature, in-person and online (Summer 2023, Spring 2023, Summer 2022)
Instructor of record, Comparative Literature 191N: Introduction to Video Game Culture, in-person (Fall 2021, Fall 2019)
Instructor of record, German 1, in-person and mixed mode online delivery (Summer 2021, Summer 2020, Summer 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018)
Instructor of record, German 3, synchronous online delivery (Summer 2021)
George Mason University
Teaching Assistant for Department of History & Art History.
Art History 374: Art Now and Art History 201: Survey of Western Art II, in-person and online asynchronous (Spring 2017, Fall 2016)
Research Interests
light-based media • time-based media • critical theory • video game studies • ecocriticism • digitality
Publications
Hannah A. Matangos, Gayming 101
The Syllabus ProjectMarch 31, 2023
Hannah A. Matangos, Light/Play: Art, Vision, and Futures since 1920 (PhD Dissertation)
Penn State Electronic Theses and Dissertations for Graduate SchoolDecember 30, 2022
Hannah A. Matangos, Death and Collective Resistance in Gardens Speak
The Order of the Good DeathNovember 2022
Anna Piotti, Hannah A. Matangos, Alexis Chin, Julia Goetze, Valérie Keppenne, and Katherine Kerschen, (Co)Constructing Critical Pedagogies: Expanding on Our Department’s Approach to Language Teaching
Second Language Research & Practice, volume 3, issue 1
Presentations
Multigenerational Art Spaces
Tour & presentation, 3 Dots Downtown's 2nd annual Creative Communities Convening summit, State College, PASeptember 17, 2022
The Possibilities of Play: From Dadaism to Anne-Marie Schleiner’s Hacktivism
German Studies Association's 46th Annual Conference, Houston, TXSeptember 13, 2022
Grey Zones: On Photography & Progress
Gruppo del Colore's 17th Color Conference (virtual)November 4, 2021
Whispers of Resistance in Tania El Khoury’s Gardens Speak
Penn State German Graduate Student Association’s “Sounds of Migration” conference (virtual)October 2, 2021
(Co)constructing Antiracist Pedagogy: An Open Dialogue Reflecting on Standing Departmental Approaches within Institutional Systems (with Alexis Chin and Anna Piotti)
Symposium on Language Pedagogy in Higher Education (virtual)October 1, 2021
The Filmic Bodies of Peter Kubelka & Valie EXPORT
German Studies Association's 45th Annual Conference (virtual)March 12, 2021
The Commodification of Queerness and Community in Animal Crossing
Northeast Modern Language Association's 52nd Annual Conference (virtual)September 30, 2020
The (Haptic) New Vision: László Moholy-Nagy’s “Light Prop” and Haptic Visuality
German Studies Association’s 44th Annual Conference (virtual)October 26, 2019
Liminal Embodiment, Language, and Identity in Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s Mutterzunge
Liberal Arts Collective's "Visualizing the Self in Flux" conference, State College, PAAugust 14, 2019
From Minimalism to Postminimalism: Perspectives in Perception and Form through Robert Morris
Nerd Nite, Webster’s Bookstore and Cafe, State College, PA (educational community presentation)
Service
Liberal Arts Collective, The Pennsylvania State University
President (August 2021-August 2022)
Member and producer of “Unraveling the Anthropocene: Race, Environment, and Pandemic” podcast (August 2020-October 2021)
German Graduate Student Association, The Pennsylvania State University
Vice President (January 2020-January 2022)
Committees:
Filmabend committee (August 2020-January 2022; August 2022-present)
Graduate Professional Development committee (February 2020-August 2020)
“Sounds of Migration” conference committee (August 2019-August 2020)
Poetry Without Borders planning committee (August 2019-March 2020)
New Student Orientation committee (December 2018-August 2019)
Department of Germanic & Slavic Languages and Literatures, The Pennsylvania State University
German Day committee (November 2018-present)
Photographer (August 2018-present)
Webmaster (August 2018-present)
Memberships
College Art Association
German Studies Association
International Society for the Study of Surrealism
Phi Beta Delta Society for International Scholars
Phi Beta Kappa Society
Gamma Phi Beta Sorority
Technical Skills
General Proficiencies:
Experienced with Windows, MacOS, iOS
Podcast production and distribution
Graphic design
Digital photography
Social media management
Web design & content management
HTML & CSS
Softwares & Platforms:
Adobe Audition
Adobe Creative Cloud Express
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop
Canva
Hootsuite
Microsoft Office Suite
OBS
Procreate
WordPress
Zoom
Languages
English (native) • German (C2) • French (A2)