- Ph.D., University of Chicago
- M.A., Williams College, Graduate Program in the History of Art
- B.A., Oberlin College
- B.M., Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Jeffrey Saletnik
Assistant Professor, Art History
Adjunct Faculty, Germanic Studies
Assistant Professor, Art History
Adjunct Faculty, Germanic Studies
modern and contemporary art; modernism; visual culture of the interwar years; modern architecture and design; media theory; history and theory of pedagogy; relationships between the visual arts and music
Saletnik, Jeffrey and Karen Koehler, eds. “Translation and Architecture.” Special issue, Art in Translation vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2018): 1-142.
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “Introduction: Objects of Architectural Translation.” In “Translation and Architecture,” edited by Karen Koehler and Jeffrey Saletnik. Special issue, Art in Translation, vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2018): 4-10. doi.org/10.1080/17561310.2018.1424292.
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “Materialkontakt mit Albers: Wie die Grundlehre des Bauhausmeisters Josef Albers bis heute Schule macht // Material Contact with Albers: How the preliminary course of Bauhaus master Josef Albers still sets precedent today.” Magazine Bauhaus, vol. 9 “Substance.” Leipzig: Spector Books (December 2017): 36-39.
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “Bauhaus in America,” “Xanti Schawinsky: Spectrodrama (Black Mountain Stage Studies),” and “Robert Rauschenberg: Untitled (a birthday picture for Hermine).” In Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, edited by Helen Molesworth, 102-105, 106-111, 314-315. Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015. [Exhibition venues: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio].
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “Juxtapositions and Constellations: Albers and Op Art.” In Intersecting Colors: Josef Albers and his Contemporaries, edited by Vanja V. Malloy, 65-75. Amherst: Amherst College Press, 2015.
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “John Cage, le fonctionnalisme et la pédagogie du Bauhaus.” In Transmettre l’art. Figures et méthodes - Quelle histoire?, edited by Valérie Mavridorakis and Christophe Kihm, 53-68. Dijon: les presses du réel, 2013.
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “Trophy IV (for John Cage),” Rauschenberg Research Project, produced as part of the Getty Foundation's Online Scholarly Catalogue Initiative, July 2013. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “László Moholy-Nagy, John Cage und die Kreative Dynamik.” In “John Cage und…” Bildender Künstler – Einflüsse, Anregungen, edited by Wulf Herzogenrath, 60-70. Berlin: Akademie der Künste; Köln: DuMont Buchverlag, 2012.
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “John Cage and the Task of the Translator.” Art in Translation, vol. 4, no. 1 (March 2012): 73-88.
Saletnik, Jeffrey, and Robin Schuldenfrei, eds. Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism. London: Routledge, 2009: 279 pp. Essays by: Annie Bourneuf, Magdalena Droste, Karen Koehler, Laura Muir, Elizabeth Otto, Paul Monty Paret, Alina Payne, Jeffrey Saletnik, Robin Schuldenfrei, Frederic J. Schwartz, T’ai Smith, Joyce Tsai.
Saletnik, Jeffrey, and Robin Schuldenfrei. “Introduction.” In Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism, edityed by Jeffrey Saletnik and Robin Schuldenfrei, 1-9. London: Routledge, 2009.
Saletnik, Jeffrey. “Pedagogic Objects: Josef Albers, Greenbergian Modernism and the Bauhaus in America.” In Bauhaus Construct: Fashioning Identity, Discourse and Modernism, edited by Jeffrey Saletnik and Robin Schuldenfrei, 83-102. London: Routledge, 2009.
Contributions to: Artforum, Critical Inquiry, Tate Papers, and Chicago Art Journal.