PhD Alumna Ann Millett-Gallant’s essay “Pieces of Cake” has been included in the new Routledge Companion to Art and Disability. Congratulations Ann!
The Department is thrilled to announce the award of a CASVA Twenty-Four Month Chester Dale Fellowship to our doctoral student Erin Dickey. This prestigious fellowship provides funding for a year of independent research and a second year in residence at the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Erin’s dissertation on the convergence of networked technologies and feminist art in the 1980s, focusing on the under-studied artists Judy Malloy (1942-), Nancy Paterson (1957-2018), and Karen O’Rourke (1951-) whose works probe the political and aesthetic processes underlying the “information age,” is supervised by Professor Cary Levine.
Congratulations Erin!
Congratulations to Klint Burgio-Ericson (Ph.D. 2018) on his recent appointment as Assistant Professor, tenure track, in the Art History program at Texas Tech University!
Congratulations to Emily DuVall, who has received the 2022-2023 Hanes Graduate Fellowship (Rare Book Collection Fellowship) through Wilson Library at UNC Libraries. Her dissertation project is “Power and Possession: The French Conceptualization of Royal Space during the Reign of François I.”
Do you watch “Is it Cake?” Then you should read this article in the Conversation from Assistant Professor Maggie Cao: “‘Is It Cake?’ feeds viewers visual catharsis for uncertain times” Always fun to be had when our faculty write about popular culture.
PhD candidate Andrea C. Snow has published a new article in Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft. Titled “Distorted, Dismembered, Diffused: Rethinking the Body in Old Norse Material Culture,” it examines the strange and schematized bodies that populate Viking Age art.
Abstract:
From the late-eighth through the early-twelfth centuries, medieval Norse objects represented the human body in varying states of ambiguity. While the Latin West would establish conventions for representing figures that visibly asserted the emotive expressivity of the face and body to circumscribe the beholder’s expected emotional (and spiritual) comportment, the figures represented in medieval Norse art are lacking in physiognomic distinctions such as defined facial features or somatic expressions of emotion. If their anatomical configurations do not appear to convey behavioral codes, then what could they refer to? What cultural factors contributed to their distortion, and how were they read by their intended beholders? This article argues that such enigmatic bodies did not represent human anatomy as it appeared before the eye, but gestured to a broad, flexible, and supernatural corporeality that transgressed the divisions between divine, human, and animal of Latin Western art and thought.
You can read it online now via ProjectMUSE! (link for HTML-ing is here: https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/47556)
Assistant Professor Kathryn Desplanque will be speaking about her current book project on how prints and caricatures depicted the idea of the Starving Artist in 18th and 19th c. Paris at the Duke Art, Art History & Visual Studies 2022 Graduate Student Symposium on this Friday, February 11. The event is hybrid in-person and virtual.
Assistant Professor Kathryn Desplanque was recently a panelist for a Carolina Data Science now Webinar, “Usual and Unusual Suspects in Data Science.” You can find out more about how Kathryn uses data to collate and annotate hundreds of French 19th c. prints, and the webinar series, in this article from The Well, “Making data science connections.”
Congratulations to PhD Alumna Shawnya Harris, whose exhibition “Emma Amos: Color Odyssey” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art was listed as one of Hyperallergic’s Best of 2021. Shawnya put together the first major retrospective for Amos, the only woman and youngest person to be invited to join Spiral, a New York-based collective of African American artists active in the 1960s and ’70s.
Brittany Forniotis (MA 2019, now studying for her Ph.D. at Duke) recently published her first article in Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 52 (2021). It’s available here via Project MUSE: “Out of Sight, out of Mind: Italian Lazzaretti and Collective Trauma in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Italian Cities.” (non-subscribers can still read the abstract)
