Whitney Dennis, M.A.
Department of Visual and Performing Arts
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, 91女神-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.
Research Groups and Projects
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).