Whitney Dennis, M.A.
Department of Visual and Performing Arts
Art History
Education
- Ph.D. (cand.), Historia, Historia del Arte y Territorio, UNED, Madrid
- M.A. Cultural Management, Creative Industries and Visual Culture, Universidad de Alcal谩
- M.A. Museum Studies, Universidad de Alcal谩
- B.A. Spanish, SLU-Madrid
Practice Areas
- History of collecting
- Cultural history
Research Interests
- Transition of collecting practices from the Old to the New Regime.
- Ideological narratives and memory in collections.
- History of Spanish aristocratic collections.
- History of decadence of the old nobility.
- Cultural politics, diplomacy, propaganda.
- The role of old aristocracy in the birth of Spanish cultural institutions in 18th-20th centuries.
- Member of research group, Arte y Pensamiento. ()
- Member of research project, PoLeNo "Pol铆ticas de legitimaci贸n nobiliaria: narrativas de memoria y est茅tica en la gesti贸n del patrimonio art铆stico de la nobleza espa帽ola (1750-1931)". ()
- Member of the research project, PAMEP "Los p煤blicos del arte en Madrid: espacios, pr谩cticas y mediaci贸n entre la Ilustraci贸n y el Romanticismo".
- PI research project, "Mapeando la musealizacio虂n: la identificacio虂n de espacios privados musealizados y sus promotores (1819-1931)".
- Academic secretary of the Centro de Estudios de la Nobleza (Real Maestranza de Ronda).
Publications and Media Placements
- W. Dennis (2023) "In the appropriate setting: Continuity and Context in the Alba Collection in Liria Palace (1931-1957)", Acta Historiae Artis Slovenica 28(2): 147-176.
- W. Dennis (2023) "Reading between the lines: The Alba Collection after the end of entailment (nineteenth and twentieth centuries", Journal of the History of Collections, 93(370): 117-134.
- W. Dennis (2023) "Collecting and Recollecting: Recuperating Family Memory in the House of Alba", in Mapping Art Collecting 1860-1940, Eastern and Western Perspectives, ed. M. Wozniak-Koch (Berlin: Brill|Ferdinand Sch枚ningh) pp. 56-70.
- W. Dennis (2020) "Sobre un grabado de Guillaume Anabat y la iconograf铆a de Juan de Flandes". Archivo Espa帽ol de Arte XCIII (370): 147-152.
- W. Dennis, (forthcoming) "Una americanista en la Casa de Alba", en Am茅rica y la Casa de Alba, cat谩logo de exposici贸n, Palacio de Liria, octubre 2024-marzo 2025.
- W. Dennis, (forthcoming) "Rosario Falc贸. XVI duquesa consorte de Alba y los cimientos de la gesti贸n art铆stica de la Casa de Alba", en La visibilidad del coleccionismo privado: de la Ilustraci贸n a la Segunda Rep煤blica, ed. Jos茅 Antonio Vigara Zafra (Madrid: Editorial Trea).
Honors and Awards
Recipient of grant for PhD dissertation (2021-2025), from the Agencia Estatal de Investigaci贸n (Ministro de Ciencia e Innovaci贸n).