Matilde Mateo specializes in medievalism, the reception of medieval art and architecture after the Middle Ages. Her research focuses on two different lines of inquiry. One is the manipulation of Spanish medieval art and architecture in historiography, rituals, and policies, in order to construct a national identity. The other is how the Gothic has been conceptualized, visualized, and manipulated over the centuries in art theory, literature and film, architecture, visual representations and fashion, from its conception as a barbarian style by the Italian humanists to its last mutation in contemporary Goth culture. She has been visiting scholar at Yale University, Indiana University, and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Chicago.

She has taught at the University of Vigo (Spain) and the University of Arizona. At Syracuse University, she teaches courses related to her research (HOA 412 The Gothic Spell), as well as on classical and medieval art and architecture.

“The Form of Race: Architecture, Epistemology, and National Identity in Fernando Chueca Goitia´s Invariantes castizos de la arquitectura española (1947)”, in Envisioning Others: Race, Color, and the Visual in Iberia and Latin-America, ed. by Pamela Patton, Brill Academic Publishers, 2016, 266-305. Honorable Mention for the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies.
http://www.brill.com/products/book/envisioning-others-race-color-and-visual-iberia-and-latin-america

"In Search of the Origin of the Gothic: Thomas Pitt´s Travel in Spain in 1760", Journal of Art Historiography, 15: December 2016.
https://arthistoriography.wordpress.com/15-dec16/.

“La frontera del gótico: James Fergusson y la marginación del gótico español”, Quintana. Revista del Departamento de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Santiago, no. 13, 2014, 77-97
http://www.usc.es/revistas/index.php/quintana/issue/view/196

Please visit my Academia.edu page for a complete listings of my books, articles, book chapters, reviews, conference papers, and other publications, including some full text.
https://syr.academia.edu/MMateo

Academic Honors

• Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado, 1995, University of Santiago.
• M.A. with Distinction, 1995, University of Essex.

Fellowships, Grants and Scholarhips

• Summer Institute sponsored by the NEH, in Granada, Spain, entitled "The Alhambra and Spain’s Islamic Past” from June 15 to July 10, 2015.
• F.P.I. Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Ministerio de Educación y Cultura, Spain, to the University of Chicago, 1997-99 (two years) Equivalent to a post-doctoral Fullbright or NEH.
• Fellowship by “La Caixa-The British Council”, to the University of Essex, 1993-94 (one year), to carry out an M.A.degree.
• Pre-doctoral research fellowship by the Xunta de Galicia (Autonomous Goverment of Galicia, Spain) to London, 1988-89 (two years). Similar to pre-doc Fullbright fellowships.

Please click on my CV for a full list of other honors, awards, employment, and service.