Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Germany
fellow
Anna Kathryn Kendrick
2025-2026
Home institution
NYU Shanghai
Country of origin (home institution)
United States
Discipline(s)
Cultural studies; Literature; Social Sciences
Theme(s)
Cultural Studies; Regional Studies; Visual Arts
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Anna Kathryn Kendrick is a Clinical Professor of Literature and the Director of Global Awards at NYU Shanghai. Kendrick’s research brings together Spanish literature and intellectual thought, focusing on modern and contemporary reinterpretations of deep time and cultural heritage. Her monograph, Humanizing Childhood in Early Twentieth-Century Spain (2020), received the MLA’s Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize in Spanish and Latin American studies. She has held fellowships from the NYU Center for the Humanities, NYU Madrid, the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg and Fulbright España.
Research Project
Rock, Fossil, Bone: Human Time and Deep History in Twentieth-Century Spain
During her time at the HWK, Kendrick will be furthering Rock, Fossil, Bone: Human Time and Deep History in Twentieth-Century Spain, a study of contemporary Spanish aesthetics of the deep past in the age of the Anthropocene, from the discovery of the Caves of Altamira in 1879 to the excavation of the oldest hominid fossils at Atapuerca in 1994 and beyond. In the work of artists and psychologists, poets and scientists, and curators and educators, this book project interrogates the uses of Spain’s archaeological heritage and argues for its centrality to twentieth-century national and cultural debates. Conjoining gender, science, and prehistory, this research and book project posits the dignity of individuals outside the historical narrative through the imaginative and material vestiges of human ancestry.
Research Interests:
Cultural studies; archaeology; heritage; poetry; visual arts