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Published, Peer Reviewed Academic Papers by Whitten Overby

Research paper thumbnail of A Multimedia Panopticon: Media, Translation, and History in OMA's "S, M, L, XL" and the Arnhem Prison

This essay is part of a special, guest edited issue of "The Journal of Architectural Education" e... more This essay is part of a special, guest edited issue of "The Journal of Architectural Education" entitled "#SMLXL." This special issue's publication coincided, down to the month, with the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's self-described 1,000+ page architectural novel," "S, M, L, XL"

Book Contributions by Whitten Overby

Research paper thumbnail of "Helen Zimmern and Other Radical Florentine Women"

"Helen Zimmern and other Radical Florentine Women", 2018

Co-authored with D. Medina Lasansky in her monograph "Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to ... more Co-authored with D. Medina Lasansky in her monograph "Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to Florence and Tuscany" (2018)

Published, Non-Peer Reviewed Academic Papers by Whitten Overby

Research paper thumbnail of The Birth of Neoliberalism: American Identities Individuated and Refracted on "Mad Men"

This essay is the third in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded televisio... more This essay is the third in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded television show "Mad Men." See the attached link to "Flow"'s website, where the article was published, for embedded videos intended to be viewed alongside reading the essay.

Research paper thumbnail of Miss Representations: No Room for Blackness or Feminism on "Mad Men'''s Sets

This essay is the first in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded televisio... more This essay is the first in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded television show "Mad Men." See the attached link to "Flow"'s website, where the article was published, for embedded videos intended to be viewed alongside reading the essay.

Research paper thumbnail of The "Mad"-ness of Angeleno Freeways: Auto-Mobility, Futurism, and Masculine Desire

This essay is the second in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded televisi... more This essay is the second in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded television show "Mad Men." See the attached link to "Flow"'s website, where the article was published, for embedded videos intended to be viewed alongside reading the essay.

Exhibitions (Essays, Lectures, and Slides) by Whitten Overby

Research paper thumbnail of Commodifed Italies: Mass-Mediated Tourist Experiences and Built Environments during the Second Grand Tour, 1860-1915

This is an essay written for the digital portion of an December 2011 archival exhibition that was... more This is an essay written for the digital portion of an December 2011 archival exhibition that was the culmination of a graduate seminar required of students in Cornell's History of Architecture and Urbanism MA/PhD program. The course and resulting analog exhibition was entitled "Archi•tourism" and ran for one week in Cornell's Kroch Rare and Manuscript Collections (the official University archives). The show included select items each student chose to write about in their exhibition catalog essays. The digital exhibition may be found online hosted by the Kroch (see the attached link).

Research paper thumbnail of "It's Paula's World": Paula Deen, Race, and Southern Kitchens and Cookery

Part of Cornell Department of Architecture graduate student seminar Gastro•porn, a class-curated ... more Part of Cornell Department of Architecture graduate student seminar Gastro•porn, a class-curated digital exhibition launched in May 2015. The full exhibition available online as funded and hosted by Cornell's College of Art, Architecture, and Planning (see the attached links to the entire exhibition as well as my essay where, in the latter, you will find links to the videos referenced in the article text available for download here).

Theses (Full PDFs) and Dissertations (Abstract) by Whitten Overby

Research paper thumbnail of Sacrality and Modernity at Villa Giustiniani-Cambiaso

This is the full text and map book (image document separate from and attached to the end of the t... more This is the full text and map book (image document separate from and attached to the end of the text) of my undergraduate Bachelor's thesis completed and defended in May 2010. I received high honors and the Alumni Award in the History of Art for this project.

Research paper thumbnail of Postcards from God: Grace and the Corporate Everyday at Orlando's Holy Land Experience

This is the full text of my Master's thesis, which was completed as part of my dual MA/PhD progra... more This is the full text of my Master's thesis, which was completed as part of my dual MA/PhD program in the history of architecture and urbanism. It received the 2016 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Master’s Thesis Award for Best Master’s Thesis in the Association.

Interviews by Whitten Overby

Research paper thumbnail of Cornell Graduate Student Spotlight Interview of Whitten Overby

Sally Kral, an assistant member of the Cornell University Graduate School's communications and ou... more Sally Kral, an assistant member of the Cornell University Graduate School's communications and outreach branch, interviewed me for the Graduate Student Spotlight series whose archive may be found on the Cornell Graduate School website and which was distributed as part of the weekly Graduate School announcements e-mail.

Academic Papers under Review (Titles + Abstracts) by Whitten Overby

Research paper thumbnail of A Multimedia Panopticon: Media, Translation, and History in OMA's "S, M, L, XL" and the Arnhem Prison

This essay is part of a special, guest edited issue of "The Journal of Architectural Education" e... more This essay is part of a special, guest edited issue of "The Journal of Architectural Education" entitled "#SMLXL." This special issue's publication coincided, down to the month, with the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture's self-described 1,000+ page architectural novel," "S, M, L, XL"

Research paper thumbnail of "Helen Zimmern and Other Radical Florentine Women"

"Helen Zimmern and other Radical Florentine Women", 2018

Co-authored with D. Medina Lasansky in her monograph "Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to ... more Co-authored with D. Medina Lasansky in her monograph "Hidden Histories: The Alternative Guide to Florence and Tuscany" (2018)

Research paper thumbnail of The Birth of Neoliberalism: American Identities Individuated and Refracted on "Mad Men"

This essay is the third in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded televisio... more This essay is the third in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded television show "Mad Men." See the attached link to "Flow"'s website, where the article was published, for embedded videos intended to be viewed alongside reading the essay.

Research paper thumbnail of Miss Representations: No Room for Blackness or Feminism on "Mad Men'''s Sets

This essay is the first in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded televisio... more This essay is the first in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded television show "Mad Men." See the attached link to "Flow"'s website, where the article was published, for embedded videos intended to be viewed alongside reading the essay.

Research paper thumbnail of The "Mad"-ness of Angeleno Freeways: Auto-Mobility, Futurism, and Masculine Desire

This essay is the second in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded televisi... more This essay is the second in a three-part series about ideology and space on AMC's lauded television show "Mad Men." See the attached link to "Flow"'s website, where the article was published, for embedded videos intended to be viewed alongside reading the essay.

Research paper thumbnail of Commodifed Italies: Mass-Mediated Tourist Experiences and Built Environments during the Second Grand Tour, 1860-1915

This is an essay written for the digital portion of an December 2011 archival exhibition that was... more This is an essay written for the digital portion of an December 2011 archival exhibition that was the culmination of a graduate seminar required of students in Cornell's History of Architecture and Urbanism MA/PhD program. The course and resulting analog exhibition was entitled "Archi•tourism" and ran for one week in Cornell's Kroch Rare and Manuscript Collections (the official University archives). The show included select items each student chose to write about in their exhibition catalog essays. The digital exhibition may be found online hosted by the Kroch (see the attached link).

Research paper thumbnail of "It's Paula's World": Paula Deen, Race, and Southern Kitchens and Cookery

Part of Cornell Department of Architecture graduate student seminar Gastro•porn, a class-curated ... more Part of Cornell Department of Architecture graduate student seminar Gastro•porn, a class-curated digital exhibition launched in May 2015. The full exhibition available online as funded and hosted by Cornell's College of Art, Architecture, and Planning (see the attached links to the entire exhibition as well as my essay where, in the latter, you will find links to the videos referenced in the article text available for download here).

Research paper thumbnail of Sacrality and Modernity at Villa Giustiniani-Cambiaso

This is the full text and map book (image document separate from and attached to the end of the t... more This is the full text and map book (image document separate from and attached to the end of the text) of my undergraduate Bachelor's thesis completed and defended in May 2010. I received high honors and the Alumni Award in the History of Art for this project.

Research paper thumbnail of Postcards from God: Grace and the Corporate Everyday at Orlando's Holy Land Experience

This is the full text of my Master's thesis, which was completed as part of my dual MA/PhD progra... more This is the full text of my Master's thesis, which was completed as part of my dual MA/PhD program in the history of architecture and urbanism. It received the 2016 Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Master’s Thesis Award for Best Master’s Thesis in the Association.

Research paper thumbnail of Cornell Graduate Student Spotlight Interview of Whitten Overby

Sally Kral, an assistant member of the Cornell University Graduate School's communications and ou... more Sally Kral, an assistant member of the Cornell University Graduate School's communications and outreach branch, interviewed me for the Graduate Student Spotlight series whose archive may be found on the Cornell Graduate School website and which was distributed as part of the weekly Graduate School announcements e-mail.