Career
Doctor Mendelson currently serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literature at New York University. Her scholarship is centered on the impact of images in the Spanish print media from 1929–1939. Her book Documenting Spain: Artists, Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929–1939 was published in 2005 by Penn State University Press.
She currently serves as president of the American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies (2004–2006).
The exhibition Revistas y Guerra 1936 – 1939 curated by Jordana Mendelson opened in Madrid, Spain at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in January 2007.
