Dr. Nina Amstutz, Curriculum Vitae [email protected] Education PhD, History of Art, University of Toronto, 2013 • Specialization: 18th- and 19th-century European art • Supervisory Committee: Mark A. Cheetham, Alison Syme, Elizabeth Legge • External Examiner: Charlotte Klonk • Dissertation: “Caspar David Friedrich and the Science of Landscape” MA, History of Art, University of Toronto, 2008 DAAD Visiting Scholar, Freie Universität Berlin, 2005–6, 2010–11 Honours BA with High Distinction, University of Toronto, 2004 • Major: History of Art • Minor: Economics Research Interests Romanticism; landscape; natural history; ecology; aesthetics; history of science; the body; British art; Orientalism; anthropomorphism; bio art; museum studies Academic Employment Assistant Professor (tenure track), History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon, 2014– (on leave 2014/15 academic year to finish postdoc) Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Paintings and Sculpture, Yale Center for British Art, 2013–16 (2015/16 academic year declined) Fellowships and Awards • DAAD Research Grant, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, 2015 (2 months) • University of Toronto Graduate Fellowship, 2008–13 • SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), 2010–12 • DAAD Research Grant (German Academic Exchange Service), 2010–11 (10 months) • Graduate Research Fellowship (The Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, University of Toronto), 2010–11 • Travel Grant (Department of Art, University of Toronto), 2010–11 • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2010–11 (declined) • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2009–10 • Thomas and Beverley Simpson OGS Award (School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto), 2009–10 • McCuaig-Throop Bursary (School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto), 2009 • University of Toronto Admissions Award, 2008–9 • Margaret and Nicholas Fodor Fellowship (School of Graduate Studies, University of Toronto), 2008–9

• SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship (Masters) (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada), 2006–7 • Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 2006–7 (declined) • Mary Coyne Rowell Jackman Graduate Award (Victoria College, University of Toronto), 2006–7 • DAAD Study Scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service), 2005–6 (10 months) • Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award (Hart House, University of Toronto), 2004 Publications Book Projects Caspar David Friedrich: Landscape, Science, and the Self (in preparation) Nature’s Imagination: Art, Fossils, and the Narratives of Natural History (in research stage) Articles “A Self-Portrait as Landscape Painter: Caspar David Friedrich and Phrenology” (under review) “Landscape and the Architecture of Light: Reflections on Constable’s Clouds at the Yale Center for British Art” (under review) “Caspar David Friedrich and the Aesthetics of Community,” Studies in Romanticism (forthcoming, winter 2016) “Caspar David Friedrich and the Anatomy of Nature,” Art History 37, no. 3 (June 2014): 454–81. *Awarded an Honorable Mention in the 2015 HGCEA Emerging Scholars Prize “The Romantic Reception of the Renaissance: Between Cult Images and Art,” Rutgers Art Review 25 (2010): 1–22. Book Reviews “Nazarenism: The ‘Other’ Romanticism,” review of Cordula Grewe, Painting the Sacred in the Age of Romanticism (Ashgate, 2009), Art History 34, 1 (February 2011): 209–11. Lectures Invited Lectures Title TBA, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, March 3, 2016 “Caspar David Friedrich: Science, Anthropomorphism, and Artistic Identity,” Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, July 22, 2015 “Landscape and the Architecture of Light: Reflections on Constable’s Clouds at the YCBA,” Yale Center for British Art, December 1, 2014

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“A Self-Portrait as Landscape Painter: Caspar David Friedrich, the Myth of the Artist, and Phrenology,” Department of the History of Art, Yale University, October 29, 2014 “The Eye and the Hand: Caspar David Friedrich and the Organic Instruments of Artistic Creation,” University of Oregon, March 10, 2014 “Caspar David Friedrich: The Eye and the Hand,” Yale Center for British Art, March 3, 2014 Conferences Presenter “The Split Self: Phrenology, Reason, and Madness in Romantic Self-Portraiture,” presented at The Turbulent Mind: Madness, Moods and Melancholy in the Art of the Nineteenth Century, Ghent, Museum of Fine Arts, May 16–17, 2014 “Eduardo Kac: Metamorphosis and the Microcosm,” presented at Association of Art Historians (AAH) 2014 Conference, session: Metamorphoses, London, April 10–12, 2014 “Cognitive Science and the Romantic Imagination,” presented at Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC-AAUC) 2013 Conference, session: The Cognitive Turn, The Banff Centre, Banff, AB, October 17–20, 2013 “The Eye and the Hand: Caspar David Friedrich and the Organic Instruments of Artistic Creation,” presented at College Art Association (CAA) 2013 Conference, session: HGCEA Emerging Scholars panel, New York, NY, February 13–16, 2013 “Caspar David Friedrich and the Science of Vegetable Anthropology,” presented at Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC-AAUC) 2012 Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, November 1–3, 2012 “Caspar David Friedrich and the Sciences of Body and Nature,” presented at German Studies Association (GSA) 2012 Conference, session: Literary and Artistic Science around 1800, Milwaukee, October 4–7, 2012 “The Tree of Life: ‘Inside’ Caspar David Friedrich’s Landscapes,” presented at NineteenthCentury Studies Association (NCSA) 2012 Conference, session: The Spiritual in the Age of Science, Asheville, NC, March 22–24, 2012 “Caspar David Friedrich and the Anatomy of Nature,” presented at Association of Art Historians 2011 Conference, session: Medical Media: The Aesthetic Language of Medical ‘Evidence,’ University of Warwick, UK, March 31 – April 2, 2011 “Intersubjective Subjectivity: Thinking Community in Caspar David Friedrich’s Landscapes,” presented at Was ist romantisch an der romantischen Kunst? [What is Romantic in Romantic Art?], Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, August 27–29, 2009

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“Fabulated Histories and Historical Truth: Tieck and Wackenroder's fictional artist biographies and the Romantic reception of the Renaissance,” presented at Assessing Boundaries: Approaching Art from the Edge, Graduate Symposium, Department of Art, University of Toronto, January 2007 Convener Organizing committee member for “The Romantic Eye, 1760–1860 and Beyond,” Yale University, April 17–18, 2015 Chair for “Crosspollinations: Botany and the Visual Arts, 1700 to the present,” session at Universities Art Association of Canada (UAAC-AAUC) 2012 Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, November 1–3, 2012 Committee chair for “Experimental Cultures: Mergers of Art and Science,” Sixth Annual Graduate Symposium, Department of Art, University of Toronto, January 27, 2012 Workshops Invited participant, Stepping Outside the Artist’s Studio: Landscape and the Oil Sketch, c. 1780–1830, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, May 12–13, 2014 Invited participant, Chipstone Foundation Workshop on the Reinstallation of the Collections of the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, April 25–26, 2014 Teaching Lectures “Eighteenth-Century Art,” Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon, Fall 2015 “The Romantic Movement,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, Summer 2010 Seminars “Fossils, Art, and Folklore,” Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Oregon, Fall 2015 (co-taught with Lyle Murphy) “Romanticism and the Visual Arts, 1760–1860,” Department of the History of Art, Yale University, Winter 2015 (co-taught with Cassandra Albinson) Teaching Assistant “Impressionism,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, Summer 2013 “19th-century Photography,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, Winter 2013

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“Landscape Architecture: 1850 to the Present,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, Winter 2012 “The Rise and Fall of the Modernist Empire,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, Fall 2009 “Modernism: 1900 – Present,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, Fall 2008 “Cubism and Related Movements,” Department of Art, University of Toronto, Summer 2008 “Introduction to Art History,” Centre for Visual and Media Culture, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Fall 2007 (with tutorials) Curatorial Experience Co-curator, The Critique of Reason: Romantic Art, 1760–1860, exhibition at the Yale University Art Gallery in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, March 6, 2015– July 26, 2015 Select Reviews: Apollo Magazine (Katy Barrett): https://www.apollo-magazine.com/yale-artinstitutions-come-together-in-the-critique-of-reason/ Art Daily: http://artdaily.com/news/76939/The-Yale-Center-for-British-Art-and-YaleUniversity-Art-Gallery-reconsider-a-century-of-romantic-art-#.VP26gE05Dct British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Esther Chadwick): http://www.bsecs.org.uk/Reviews/ReviewDetails.aspx?id=313&type=2 Boston Globe (Sebastian Smee): http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/03/21/newyale-exhibition-emphasizes-questing-spirit-romanticart/H5h6lZJOTPJ14sqxRjTOfM/story.html Burlington Magazine (August 2015, Fréderique Baumgartner) Daily Nutmeg (Dan Mims): http://dailynutmeg.com/2015/03/11/yale-university-artgallery-center-british-art-critique-of-pure-reason-true-romance/ Fine Art Connoisseur (Louise Nicholson) Hartford Courant (Alan Bisbort): http://www.courant.com/entertainment/museumsgalleries/hc-critique-of-reason-in-new-haven-0312-20150310-story.html New Criterion (Dominic Green): http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Exhibition-note-8141 New Haven Register (Joe Amarante): http://www.nhregister.com/arts-andentertainment/20150306/yale-art-gallery-british-art-center-team-up-on-critique-ofreason-romantic-art New York Times (Feature by Susan Hodara): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/nyregion/the-critique-of-reason-redefines-themeaning-of-romantic-art.html?_r=2 New York Times (Karen Rosenberg): http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/10/arts/design/review-the-critique-of-reasonrevisits-what-romantic-art-means.html?_r=0 Republican-American (Tracey O’Shaughnessy)

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Wall Street Journal (Edward Rothstein): http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-critique-ofreason-romantic-art-1760-1860-review-1430346334 Yale Daily News (Rohan Naik): http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/03/04/yuagycba-exhibition-examines-diversity-of-romanticism/ Yale News (Amy Athey McDonald): http://news.yale.edu/2015/03/12/ladies-andgentlemen-zebra-has-left-building Special Gallery Talks: “Nature between Spectacle and Specimen: Robert John Thornton’s Temple of Flora and James Ward’s Two Extraordinary Oxen,” April 17, 2015 “What is Romanticism,” March 27, 2015 Collection/Research Assistant, Director/Curator Barbara Fischer, Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Sept. 2006 – Aug. 2007 Gallery Assistant, Feheley Fine Arts, Toronto, Aug. 2004 – July 2005 Curatorial Intern, University of Toronto Art Centre, Sept. 2003 – Feb. 2004 Gallery Intern, Lillian Heidenberg Fine Art, New York, NY, June – Aug. 2001 Additional Research Experience Research Assistant, Prof. Elizabeth Harney, Department of Art, University of Toronto, Summer 2008 Service: Member, 19th-Century Colloquium, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, 2013–2015 Member, Material Culture Group, Yale University, 2013–2015 Member, Environmental Studies Research Group, led by Alice Kuzniar, Waterloo Centre for German Studies, 2011–13 Director, Graduate Symposium, “Experimental Cultures: Mergers of Art and Science,” University of Toronto, January 27, 2012 Editor in Chief, Contrapposto, Graduate/Undergraduate Journal of the Department of Art, University of Toronto, 2007 Co-President, The Graduate Union of the Students of Art, University of Toronto, Sept. 2006 – May 2007 Secretary, Hart House Art Committee, University of Toronto, March 2004 – March 2005 Voting Member, Board of Stewards, Hart House, University of Toronto, March 2004 – March 2005 Nina Amstutz, Curriculum Vitae, 6

Voting Member, Committee on Budgets, Hart House, University of Toronto, March 2004 – March 2005 Chair, Art Exhibitions Committee, Hart House, University of Toronto, Sept. 2002 – April 2004 Member, Art Education Committee, Hart House, University of Toronto, June 2002 – Nov. 2004 Member, Art Acquisitions Committee, Hart House, University of Toronto, Sept. 2001 – April 2004 Reader for journals German Quarterly Art History Languages German (fluent); French (reading knowledge) Professional Associations College Art Association Association of Art Historians Universities Art Association of Canada Historians of German and Central European Art

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