ymclane@fsu.edu
Office: FAA 138 / WJB 105
Yelena McLane studied Russian literature and linguistics in Moscow, Russia before moving to the United States. She is NCIDQ certified and has worked for over twelve years as a museum exhibition designer.
Dr. McLane’s main research interests lie in two substantive areas: interior spatial analysis and design history. She applies a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods to explore relationships between interior configurations and users’ perceptions and experiences within spaces, institutional, social, and cultural influences upon these relationships, and their potential and real consequences, to better inform interior architecture practice. Her historical research includes the spatial analysis of historic structures, which allows for deeper understandings of layouts, functions, and social meanings, and mid-twentieth-century modernism in the Soviet Union, a lesser-known chapter in the history of design that formed under quite different economic and aesthetic circumstances than design in the western world.
B.A. / Specialist Degree in the Russian Language and Literature, Department of Philology, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Moscow, Russia 1998
Post-Graduate Research Appointment, Russian Academy of Sciences, The Vinogradov Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia 1998-2000
M.S. Interior Design, Department of Interior Architecture and Design, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 2002
Ph.D. Department of Art Education, College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 2013
History of Interior Design and Architecture
Research Methods graduate seminar
StudioExhibition Design
Design Theory and CriticismSocial and Psychological Aspects of Design
Graphic Communication in Design
Space Syntax and its application to design of interior spaces
Interior and architectural design for homelessness
Design history and theory
History of Soviet architecture and design
Academic and educational building designMuseum, exhibition, and educational installation design
McLane,Y. (2017, September–November). Kul’ttovary: Bringing Culture into the Soviet Home. William Johnston Building Gallery, Tallahassee, Florida: College of Fine Arts, Florida State University. Exhibition review by Colleen O’Reilly published on CAA.reviews: https://www.caareviews.org/reviews/3420#.W5vF9CBReUk
2015
National Endowment for the Humanities and Drexel University Summer Teaching Institute: “The Canon and Beyond: Teaching the History of Modern Design.” Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2019
Bauhaus 100. Exhibition of student furniture design classwork (prof. M. Ransdell). William Johnston Gallery, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Identity in the Ottoman Empire. An exhibition at the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts curated by Prof. Lynn Jones, Art History, in collaboration with student researchers from Art History, History, and Religion. Tallahassee, FL
2014
Visitor Center / Explorium. University of Texas Marine Research Institute and Mission-Aransas National Estuarine Research Reserve, Port Aransas, TX
2013
History of Captiva Island Interpretive Exhibits. Captiva Island Historical Society, Captiva Island, FL
Interpretive Exhibit/Signage Program, Conservancy of Southeast Florida, Naples, FL
2011
Visitor Center. Southeast Louisiana National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Lacombe, LA
2010
Nature Center. Texas Chenier Planes National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Anahuac, TX
2009
Cayman Islands National Museum. Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands