In her dissertation, Language to be Looked at: American Art Turns to Words, 1960-1980, Eve Meltzer, Ph.D. candidate in Rhetoric, is concerned with the massive eruption of text (words, languages, or forms that emulate language’s form and structures) in the visual arts in America in the 1960’s and 1970’s. With particular attention to artists Robert Morris, Vito Acconci, Robert Smithson, and Mary Kelly, Meltzer takes up the “fraught relationship between word and image” with the aim of locating the interface with questions of social, political protest, and subject formation as they materialized in the visual languages of the period. Eve Meltzer holds a Luce/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship this year.