Category: Faculty News

On Thursday, October 7th Prof. Laurie Dahlberg gave a talk at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada titled “Amateur/Amateur: Thoughts on the Devolution of a Gentleman’s Art.” Click on the below link for more details. LD phot poster

I’m a physical chemist in the physics program with a long-standing personal interest in art history.  I’m teaching a new course this semester about the chemistry of photography.  Since the goal of the course is to understand the chemistry of light-sensitive materials, the first four weeks have stressed light and color, ionic and covalent compounds,…

Summer 2010 – Julia Rosenbaum An NEH Summer Institute Fellowship took me to Chicago for most of the summer for research at the Newberry Library. I am working on a couple of new projects related to mapping and art (one focusing on the Hudson River and tourism in the early 1800s) and the Newberry has…

Summer 2010 – Prof. Tom Wolf I continued my research about Asian-American artists by visiting a descendant of a fascinating, overlooked Japanese American set designer in Seattle.  But most of my summer was devoted to writing an article about the famous feminist writer, Charlotte Perkins Gilman.  Early in her career, in the 1880s, she worked…

Summer 2010 – Noah Chasin Summer is a very conflicted season for academics. On the one hand, we are “not working” in the conventional sense, leading many friends and family members to believe that we have a guilt-free three-and-a-half-month vacation. The reality is that summer is when academics get the chance to focus on their…

Summer 2010 – Prof. Susan Merriam I spent most of the summer in (very hot!) upstate New York working on two book projects. One, now in draft manuscript form, looks at representations of animals in early modern Europe. I’m particularly interested in exploring how the idea of the human was formed in relationship to the…

Summer 2010 – Prof. Patricia Karetzky During the summer I gave two talks: “Uses of the Past in Contemporary Chinese Art,” at Xiamen University Fujian in June  and “The Use of Hanzi in Contemporary Chinese Art”  at the Seventh International Conference  on Hanzi Calligraphy Education, Capital Normal University, in Beijing on June 29.  I also…

Summer 2010- Prof. Laurie Dahlberg I spent my summer on three areas of work.  First, I did some legwork on my latest project, a study of the 19th-century amateur as the driving force behind the discovery and evolution of photography.  I’m intrigued by the fact that amateurism itself has an evolution that is laid bare…

Summer 2010:  Prof. Susan Aberth I attended the 5th International Symposium on Surrealism held June 18-20 at The Edward James Foundation, West Dean College located in Chichester, West Sussex (England).  Titled “Surrealism Laid Bare,” this year’s conference was supported by the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies and the Tate Museum’s project…