2011-2012 Seminars
“The Body of the Collector: Charles Lang Freer and the Culture of Disease in Turn-of-the-Century America”
Elizabeth Lee, Dickinson College
“Naked Houses and Sunshine and Health Magazine: Suburban Architecture and the Visual Representation of Nudism”
Sarah Schrank, California State University, Long Beach
Commentator: Melody Barrett Deusner, Northwestern University
“By Any Means Necessary: Kerry James Marshall’s Comics in the Art Journal”
Kymberly Pinder, Art Institute Of Chicago
“Re-Viewing “New Century” Women: Female Illustrators and the New Woman in American Visual Culture”
Patricia Smith Scanlan, Independent Scholar
Commentator: Margaret Denny, University of Illinois at Chicago
“After the Mugshot: On the Limits of Photographic Evidence”
Shawn Michelle Smith, School of the Art Instiute of Chicago
Commentators: Sarah Evans, Northern Illinois University and Gregrory Foster-Rice, Columbia College Chicago
“Defining, Confining, and Inventing Japan: American “Japan Rooms,” 1854–1893”
Ellen E. Roberts, Art Institute of Chicago
“American Art History and Transatlantic Exchange: The Case for Italy”
Melissa Dabakis, Kenyon College
Commentator: Wendy Greenhouse, Independent Scholar