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Jennie Hirsh School address: Department of Art History, Theory & Criticism Maryland Institute College of Art 1300 Mount Royal Avenue Baltimore, MD 21217

Home address: 1830 Spruce St., Apt. 2R Philadelphia, PA Tel.: (215) 327-6218 E-mail: [email protected]

EDUCATION: Bryn Mawr College, History of Art Department, Bryn Mawr, PA Ph.D. in History of Art with a focus on Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture Dissertation: Self-Portraiture and Self-Representation: The Painting and Writing of Giorgio de Chirico Dissertation Director: Professor Steven Z. Levine

December 2003

Middlebury College, The Italian School, Middlebury, VT August 1998 M.A. in Italian with a focus on postwar cinema, twentieth-century literature, and language pedagogy Bryn Mawr College, History of Art Department, Bryn Mawr, PA M.A. in History of Art with a concentration in Italian Renaissance Studies Master’s Thesis: Double Vision: Reflection and Representation in the Saletta di Diana e Atteone at Fontanellato. Thesis Director: Professor David Cast

May 1997

University of Pennsylvania, College of Arts and Sciences, Philadelphia, PA B.A. with Honors in Classical Studies, Minor in Italian Studies Senior Thesis: A Balneis ad Thermas: An Exploration of Baths and Bathing in Ancient Rome Thesis Director: Professor Joseph Farrell

May 1993

Stanford University, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, Italy Spring 1992 Intensive study of Latin literature, the Ancient World, and Italian Renaissance and Baroque art

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Maryland Institute College of Art, School of Graduate Studies, Baltimore, MD Director, MA in Critical Studies

Spring 2012-

Maryland Institute College of Art, Department of Art History, Baltimore, MD Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture. Acting Chair, Spring 2009

January 2007-present

Maryland Institute College of Art, Division of Continuing Studies, Baltimore, MD Director and faculty member, “Behind the Scenes at the Venice Biennale.” Summer Study Abroad Program in Venice, Italy.

May-June 2011

Temple University, School of Communications and Theater, Philadelphia, PA Visiting faculty member in MFA graduate program in Film and Media Arts; Courses: “Critical Methods”

Fall 2010

Maryland Institute College of Art, Division of Continuing Studies, Baltimore, MD Co-Director and faculty member, Summer Study Abroad Program in Venice, Italy.

May-June 2009

Columbia University, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, New York, NY Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton, NJ

Fall 2006

Fall 2005-Spring 2006

Hannah Seeger Davis Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Oberlin College, Department of Art, Oberlin, OH Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture

Fall 2003-Spring 2005

University of Pennsylvania, Department of History of Art, Philadelphia, PA Lecturer in Contemporary Art

Fall 2002-Spring 2003

Bryn Mawr College, College Seminar Program, Bryn Mawr, PA Fall 2002-Spring 2003 Lecturer in interdisciplinary college seminar program for first- and second-year students Philadelphia Museum of Art, Department of Education, Philadelphia, PA Lecturer in Adult Education

Fall 2002-Spring 2003

Moore College of Art & Design, Department of Liberal Arts, Philadelphia, PA Visiting Assistant Professor in Art History

Fall 1999-Spring 2000

Temple University, Department of Art History, Philadelphia, PA Instructor of Art History

Fall 1999

Bryn Mawr College & University of Pennsylvania, Summer Institute for Italian Studies, Florence, Italy Lecturer in Florentine Renaissance Art History Summer 2002 Teaching Asst. for Art History; Instructor for non-credit art history course Summer 2000 Teaching Asst. for Renaissance Art History and Italian Language Summer 1999 Bryn Mawr College, Department of Italian, Bryn Mawr, PA Co-Instructor of Intensive Elementary Italian Instructor of Italian cinema, literature, and language Departmental Assistant and Substitute Instructor

Fall 2002-Spring 2003 Spring 1998-Spring 1999 Fall 1996-Spring 1997

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages, Philadelphia, PA Grader/Assistant for Introduction to Italian Cinema, Department of Romance Languages Lecturer in Italian language, College of General Studies Lecturer in Italian language, Department of Romance Languages

Spring 2000 Spring 1998 Fall 1997

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS: Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD May 2012 Lucas Grant for contemporary research; Brenner grant for travel to Rome, Milan, and Venice to complete book manuscript on Giorgio de Chirico. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD October 2010 Lucas Grant for travel to New York to see Chaos and Classicism at the Guggenheim Musem; Marcella Brenner faculty grant to support travel to New York for College Art Association Conference (February 2011) Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 2009-2010 Regional faculty fellowship/membership in “Connections” seminar for 2009-2010 academic year. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD February 2010 Marcella Brenner faculty grant to support short-term travel and research in Milan and Florence, Italy Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD May 2009 Marcella Brenner faculty grant for travel to Modernist Magazines conference held at the University of Sussex

Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD February 2009 Marcella Brenner faculty grant and Lucas Grant for short-term research for “Transmissions of Fascism” project. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD October 2008 Lucas Grant for travel to “From Africa to the Balkans: New Perspectives on Italian Fascist History and Material Culture” (co-organized with Dr. Lidia Santarelli). Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD May 2008 Research Initiation Grant/Course Release for Contemporary Art/Classical Myth edited volume (fall 2008). Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD April 2008 Cultural Expansion Grant for visiting artist Pipo Nguyen-duy; special focus on postcolonialism and self-representation. Funding supported the artist’s travel and lodging as well as four separate class visits, including one set of critiques. Cogut Center for the Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI March 2008 Alternate for one-semester visiting assistant professorship/fellowship with a focus on interdisciplinary work in the humanities during the 2008-2009 academic year. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD December 2007 Marcella Brenner faculty grant for short-term research for “Building Consensus in Fascist Italy: Architecture, Urbanism and Mass Media” Project in Summer 2008. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD December 2007 Research Initiation grant for upcoming conference “From Africa to the Balkans: New Perspectives on Italian Fascist History and Material Culture” (co-organized with Dr. Lidia Santarelli) to be held at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America of Columbia University in October 2008. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD October 2007 Lucas Grant for travel to and participation at annual Association of Jewish Studies meeting in Toronto, CA Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD May 2007 Lucas Grant for travel to and participation at annual American Association of Italian Studies meeting in Colorado Springs, CO Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD February 2007 Lucas Grant for German language study at Deutsches Haus, New York University, New York, NY and partial subvention for participation in Jack and Anita Hess Faculty Seminar on “Literature and the Holocaust” held at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD Lucas Grant for 2007 intensive summer language study

October 2006

Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH June 2004 H.H. Powers Summer Travel Grant for preliminary research in Athens on Greek Modernist painting for book project, “Mediterranean Modernity: Art and Nationalism in Italy and Greece 1918-1945” Oberlin College, Office of the Dean of the College, Oberlin, OH October 2003 & January 2004 Subvention for image rights and reproductions for publication; Travel grant for research and intensive Modern Greek language course in Athens, Greece The Wolfsonian Foundation, Miami, FL May-June 2003 Travel and research fellowship to Wolfsonian/FIU for project on “Fascism, Fashion, and the Bella Figura: Italian Female Identity 1922-1945”

The Whiting Foundation for the Humanities Fall 2001-Fall 2002 Twelve-month finishing grant to support the research and writing of a dissertation in the humanities U.S. Fulbright Commission. October 2000-June 2001 International Educational Exchange Commission Fellow for independent research in Rome, Italy; Italian delegate for March 2001 Berlin symposium on globalization The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, New York, NY Summer 2001 Grant for dissertation research in Venice and the Veneto for examination of paintings in private collections and use of library and archive of Venice Biennale The Walter S. Barr Donation, Springfield, MA Three-year grant for graduate research and dissertation writing

Fall 2000-Spring 2003

Bryn Mawr College, Department of History of Art, Bryn Mawr, PA Samuel and Lucy Chew Traveling Fellowship for dissertation research Theodore N. Ely Fellowship for senior graduate work Four-year departmental graduate fellowship (full scholarship & maximum stipend) Summer research fellowships Middlebury College, The Italian School, Middlebury, VT Full scholarship support for graduate work in Italian studies

Fall 2000-Spring 2001 Fall 1999-Spring 2000 Fall 1995-Spring 1999 1996; 1998-2001

Summer 1996 & Summer 1998

Middlebury College, The Italian School, Middlebury, VT The Michelina Pietroangelo Memorial Scholarship for excellence in Italian studies

Summer 1997

PUBLICATIONS: Books: Speculations: On Giorgio de Chirico and Other Questions of the Self (in final revision). Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious (Philadelphia: Philagrafika, 2011). Exhibition catalogue editor and project consultant. Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, co-edited with Isabelle Wallace. This volume includes thirteen essays by a wide range of art historians and visual artists. Each co-editor is also author of one chapter as well as the volume’s introduction. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2011. From Africa to the Balkans: New Perspectives on Colonialism and Material Culture in Fascist Italy, coedited with Lidia Santarelli. This volume includes twelve essays by specialists in history, art history, architecture, linguistics, anthropology, comparative literature, and Italian studies (under review). Bearing Witness: Work by Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry. Exhibition catalogue editor. Baltimore, MD: Maryland Institute College of Art/Contemporary Museum, 2010. Pipo Nguyen-duy and The Garden, editor and contributing author (in final preparation). Other essays by Andreas Huyssen and Isabelle Wallace. Exhibition Catalogue Essays: “Borderlines,” in Depth of Surface: Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González (Philadelphia: Philagrafika, 2012). “Specters of Modernism: Regina Silveira, Marcel Duchamp, and the Long Shadow of Giorgio de Chirico,” in Regina Silveira: Mil y un días y otros enigmas (Porto Alegre: Fundação Iberê Camargo, March 2011): 17-24; 46-50.

“Cabinets of Curiosity: Domestic Archives in Recent Work by Michael Huey,” in China Cupboard (New York: Newman Popiashvili, 2011). “For the Love, and Fear, of Painting: Cézanne, Morandi and Italian Modernism,” in Cézanne + Beyond, eds. Joseph Rishel and Katherine Sachs. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art/Yale University Press, 2009: 351-380. “Old Faces, New Impressions. Recent Metaphors in Hans Broek,” in Hans Broek (2007). Unpaginated. “Unheimliche Begegnungen mit Bruno Freddi: Quattro Nuove Piazze,” in Bruno Freddi. Bad Homburg: Galerie Michael Blaszczyk (2007). Unpaginated. “Pipo Nguyen-Duy and The Garden,” in Odense Foto Triennale 2006 - the Funen Festival of Photography, ed. Jens Friis & Finn Thrane. Odense, Denmark: Museet for Fotokunst (October 2006): 24-25. “Body Doubles, or Uncanny Reflections on Pipo Nguyen’s East of Eden,” in Contact Sheet 135 (exhibition catalogue for Pipo Nguyen-Duy at Light Work, January-March 2006). “Trace Elements,” in Trace Elements: New Work by Studio Faculty, ed. Stephen Borys. Oakland: Wilsted and Taylor/Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, 2005: 13-33. Brochure text for “Ruben Gutierrez/Continuous Loop.” New York: Suite 106 Gallery, 2002. Chapters in Books: “Double Take, or Theorizing Reflection in Felix Gonzalez-Torres,” in Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, ed. Isabelle Wallace and Jennie Hirsh. Burlington and Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011: 135-155. “The Faces of Fascism: Re-Reading Giorgio de Chirico’s Self-Portraiture,” in The Making of National Art, proceedings of the inaugural 2006 Warburg-Kolleg. Hamburg: Warburg-Haus, 2010: 141-165. “Odysseys of Life and Death in the Bay of Naples: Roberto Rossellini’s Voyage in Italy and Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt,” in Antiquity Recovered, ed. Jon Seydl and Victoria Coates. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2007: 271-289. “Saturazione della superficie: riflessioni culturali sull’architettura modernista,” in P. Bonifazio, Alessandro De Magistris, Fulvio Irace (eds.), La stagione dei realismi. Architettura e urbanistica tra Europa, America e mondo sovietico (1930-1960). Rome: Donzelli, forthcoming. “Representing Repetition: Appropriation in de Chirico and After,” in Italian Modernism: Italian Culture between Decadentism and Avant-Garde, ed. Luca Somigli and Mario Moroni. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004: 403-449. “Staging the Self: Giorgio de Chirico and the Theatricality of Self-Portraiture,” in Theatre and the Visual Arts, ed. Giovanna Sanguinetti-Katz and Domenico Pietropaolo. Ottawa: LEGAS Press, 2001: 221-238. Journal Articles: “Lo specchio, la luce e l’ombra: riflessioni stilistiche nel cinema di Gianni Amelio,” American Journal of Italian Studies Vol. 22 No. 59 (Fall 1999): 38-51. Special edition on contemporary Italian cinema, guest edited by Antonio Vitti. “Framed Narrative and Painted Poetry: Giovanni Boccaccio and the Visual Arts,” University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Romance Literatures and Philology. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997: 81-94.

Reviews: “Emma Wilcox. The Print Center.” Exhibition review. Art in America (June/July 2012). “Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib. 1967. Locks Gallery.” Exhibition review. Art in America (May 2012). “Jo Smail.Degrees of Absence. Goya Contemporary.” Exhibition review. Art in America (April 2012). “Paul Swenbeck and Joan Nelson. Fleisher Ollman.” Exhibition review. Art in America (March 2012): 170. “Tobias Zielony and Mohamed Bourouissa. Live Cinema at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.” Exhibition review. Art in America (February 2012): 117-118. “Neysa Grassi. Locks.” Exhibitin review. Art In America (November 2011): 176-177. “Material Girls: Contemporary Black Women Artists.” Reginald F. Lewis Museum. Art in America (November 2011): 177. “Anne Tyng at ICA Philadelphia.” Exhibition review. Art in America (May 2011). “Double Vision: Yinka Shonibare MBE.” Exhibition review. NKA: Journal of Contemporary African Art 27 (Fall 2010), published by Duke University Press. 124-127. The Drawing Room (Newman Popiashvili Gallery, January 2007 ). Exhibition review. NY Arts Magazine (May/June 2007). Book review of Janet Abramowicz, Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005) for www.caareviews.org. Posted August 7, 2006. Other Publications: Invited Panelist for Online Forum for Chaos and Classicism exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (November 2010). http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/online-forum/satire-critiqueprovocation-propaganda.

COURSES TAUGHT: Modern/Contemporary Art, Architecture & Film Studies: Graduate Colloquium for Critical Studies: Space and Place (MICA Spring 2013) Visual Culture and the Holocaust (MICA, Spring 2007, Spring 2011, Spring 2013; Oberlin College, Spring 2005); Contemporary Portraiture (MICA, Spring 2012) Graduate Survey of Contemporary Art, Design, and Theory (MICA, Fall 2011, Fall 2012) Critical Methods (Film and Media Arts, Temple University, Fall 2010) Exhibition Development Seminar (MICA Fall 2009/Spring 2010) The Venice Biennale, Then and Now (MICA Summer 2009; Summer 2011); Art, Architecture, and Ideology under Totalitarianism: Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Stalinist Russia (MICA, Spring 2008, Fall 2010; Oberlin College, Spring 2004); Modern Italian Art, Architecture, and Design (MICA, Fall 2009, Fall 2007); Modernism and After (MICA, Fall 2007, Spring 2009, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall 2011, Spring 2012); Postmodernism and Visual Culture (Oberlin College, Fall 2004); The Body: An Introduction to the Study of the History of Art (Oberlin College, Spring 2004); The Classical Tradition: An Introduction to Western Art (Oberlin College, Fall 2003, Fall 2004); Modern Italian Art (Oberlin College, Fall 2003, Spring 2005; MICA, Fall 2007, Spring 2010); Contemporary Art and The Art of Curating, year-long honors seminar with exhibition s(how) at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (UPENN, Fall 2002/Spring2003);

Introduction to Modern Art (Exploration Program at Yale University, Summer 2002); Survey of Modern Art (Moore College of Art & Design, Fall 1999, Spring 2000); Italian Cinema (Bryn Mawr College, Spring 1999) Other Courses: Art Matters (MICA, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008, Spring 2010); Classical Mythology in the Contemporary Imagination (Bryn Mawr College, Spring 2003); The Art of Giorgio de Chirico (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Spring 2003); Intensive Elementary Italian, co-instructor (Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2002, Spring 2003); Questions of Gender (Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2002); At Home in the Renaissance (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Fall 2002); Florence Renaissance Art and Architecture (Bryn Mawr College and the University of Pennsylvania, Summer Institute for Italian Studies, Florence Italy, 2002); Italian Renaissance Secular Art, intensive lecture course (College of General Studies Continuing Education/University of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Spring 2000); Visual Experience: Survey of Western Art (Temple University, Fall 1999); Italian 001: Introductory Italian Language (Bryn Mawr College, Spring 1998, Fall 1999); Italian 002: Intermediate Italian Language (Bryn Mawr College, Spring 1999); Italian 110: Introductory Italian Language (University of Pennsylvania, Fall 1997, Spring 1998) Theses and Independent Studies Directed: Samantha Gainsburg, Independent Study on Contemporary African Art (MICA, Summer 2010); Isaac Diebboll, Independent Study on Neapolitan art and culture (MICA, Summer 2008); Susanna Newbury, Senior Thesis: “Disorienting Experience: Richard Serra at Dia: Beacon” (Oberlin College, 2004-2005); Brett Dolin, Introduction to Curatorial Theory and Practice (Oberlin College, Spring 2005) Leah Readfield, Contemporary British Art and Curatorial Spaces (Oberlin College, Oberlin-in-London Program, taught via distance, Fall 2004); Italian Fascist Architecture (Oberlin College, Spring 2004); Introduction to Postmodernism (Oberlin College, Spring 2004)

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA: College Art Association, New York, NY February 2011 Queer Caucus for Art session. Paper: “Narcissus in and on the Work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres” Modernism, Cultural Exchange and Transnationality, University of Sussex, UK July 2009 The Second Conference of the Modernist Magazines Project. Paper presented: “Fear of Painting: Prospettive and the Question of French Modernism in Fascist Italy” Festival Arte Contemporanea: On biennials/Tutto sulle biennali, Faenza, Italy April 2009 Moderator and organizer of panel on case studies for the Venice Biennale and speaker on “Giorgio de Chirico, artista metafisica dal 1948 al 1956” From Africa to the Balkans, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, October 2008 Columbia University in the City of New York Co-organizer of and presenter at international conference and related events focused on the legacy of Italian colonialism in Italy and related occupied territories; co-editor of projected publication of papers. Festival Arte Contemporanea: Futuro/Presente, Faenza, Italy Moderator of panel on “Art and Curatorial Schools: Next Step”

May 2008

Association of Jewish Studies, Toronto, CA December 2007 Co-organizer and presenter in session on “Reframing the Holocaust: Recent thoughts on Photography and Film”; paper presented: “Reflections on and of Franz Stangl: Benjamin Ross’ Torte Bluma”

American Association of Italian Studies, Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO Colonial and Postcolonial Tensions Panel. Paper presented: “Broadcasting Bonifica and the Colonial Campaigns”

May 2007

Polis and Politics: Italian Urbanism under Fascism, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, New York, NY Paper presented: “Reconstructions of Fascist Urbanism”

April 2007

The Future of Memory, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK November 2005 An International Holocaust and Trauma Studies Conference. Paper presented: “Pictorial Predicaments: The Discomforting Effects of Holocaust Cinema” Splendor of Ruins, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH April 2005 Symposium held in conjunction with the Splendor of Ruins exhibition at the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Paper presented: “Odysseys of Life and Death in the Bay of Naples: Roberto Rossellini's Voyage in Italy and Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt” Seventh International Conference on Urban History, Athens, Greece October 2004 European City in Comparative Perspective. Modern and Industrial City Round Table. Paper presented: “Saturating the Surface: Cultural Reflections on Italian Modernist Architecture” (revised/expanded version of paper given at The Frick Collection) Symposium in the History of Art, The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts, April 2002 New York University, New York, NY. Paper presented: “Saturating the Surface: Cultural Reflections on Italian Modernist Architecture” College Art Association, Philadelphia, PA February 2002 “Radial Reversals and Adapted Ideologies: Emigration and Avant-garde Practices” session. Paper presented: “Traveling Fascism: Locating Giorgio de Chirico in Italian Modernism” Feminist Art History Conference, Barnard College, New York, NY November 2001 “Topographies of Gender” Conference, “Electronic Spaces” Panel. Paper presented: “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Erotics of Women’s Hair in Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista” (as given below at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Symposium) Association of Art Historians, Oxford-Brookes University, Oxford, England March 2001 “Theorizing Appropriation” session. Paper presented: “Representing Repetition: Appropriation in de Chirico and After” American Association of Italian Studies, New York University and Hunter College, April 2000 New York, NY. “I Dioscuri: The Modernism of the de Chirico Brothers” session co-chair and presenter: “Re-Presenting the Self: Re-Painting Giorgio de Chirico as Self and Other” Philadelphia Museum of Art Symposium, Philadelphia, PA April 2000 Paper presented: “Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who’s the Fairest of Them All? The Erotics of Women’s Hair in Jean-Luc Godard’s Le Mépris and Bernardo Bertolucci’s Il conformista” University Arts Association Canada, Ontario College of Art & Design, November 1999 Toronto, Canada. Paper presented: “Mapping the Mediterranean in the Painting and Writing of Giorgio de Chirico” American Association of Italian Studies, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR April 1999 “Word and Image I: Writing, Painting, Sculpture: Interactive Meditations” Session. Paper presented: “Self-Portraiture and Self-Representation: Searching for the (M)other in the Painting and Writing of Giorgio de Chirico”

University of Toronto, Graduate Centre for Drama Studies, Toronto, Canada January 1999 Theatre and the Visual Arts Colloquium: An International Conference. Paper presented: “Staging the Self: Giorgio de Chirico and the Theatricality of Self-Portraiture” University of Toronto, Department of Italian Studies, Toronto, Canada November 1998 “Possible Worlds and Virtual Worlds: Crossing Boundaries in Italian Film and Literature.” Paper presented: “Trattando la traiettoria temporale nel cinema di Giuseppe Tornatore” Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Toronto, Canada October 1998 “Issues in Cinquecento Art” session chair and presenter: “Mirroring Self and Other in the Art of Parmigianino” University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages, Philadelphia, PA April 1998 Graduate Student Colloquium: “Tradition and Innovation.” Paper presented: “Remembering the Past and Forgetting the Future: Giorgio de Chirico’s Crisis of Identity in Word and Image” New York University, Department of Italian, Casa italiana, New York, NY April 1998 “Bodies and Objects” Conference of the Italian departments of New York University and Columbia University. Paper presented: “Double Vision: Reflection and Representation in the Saletta di Diana e Atteone at Fontanellato” University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages, Philadelphia, PA March 1997 Graduate Student Colloquium: “Cartographies.’ Paper presented: “Framed Narrative and Painted Poetry: Giovanni Boccaccio and the Visual Arts”

GUEST LECTURES: University Lectures: Philadelphia Area Conservation Association/Philagrafika, Moore College of Art & Design Philadelphia, PA March 2012 Moderator and participant in roundtable on historic preservation, conservation, and Depth of Surface Moore College of Art & Design , Philadelphia, PA November 2011 Invited lecture on “Layers of History: Memorializing Murals in the work of Gómez and González” co-sponsored by Philagrafika in anticipation of Depth of Surface. Patricia Gómez + María Jesús González. IES, Milan, Italy November 2009 Guest Lecture “Objects of Desire: Portraits, Poetry, and Rites of Passage in Renaissance Italy” IES, Milan, Italy Guest Lecture “Family Affairs: Wedding Rites in Boccaccio and Beyond”

April 2009

IES, Milan, Italy December 2008 Guest Lecture “Family Matters: Marriage, Birth, and Family in Italian Renaissance Words and Images” Brown University, Providence, RI April 2008 Speaker in Italian Studies Colloquium Series. “Transmissions of Fascism: Broadcasting, Bonifica and the Built Environment.” Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ February 2007 Program in Italian Studies & Program in Hellenic Studies. “Mare Nostrum: Constructions of Italian Fascism in Greek Spaces” IES, Milan, Italy October 2006 Guest lecture on “Renaissance Portraiture and the History of Art: Then and Now” in “Art in Northern

Italy from the Late Gothic through the Renaissance” course Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA German Department. “Failed Allegories and Other Strategies in Italian Cinema”

April 2006

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA February 2006 Visual Culture Colloquium. “Mediterranean Modernity: Art and Nationalism in Italy and Greece 19181945” Hellenic Studies Workshop, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ November 2005 “Mediterranean Modernism: Pictorial Preoccupations in de Chirico and Other Melancholic Tales” Respondent: Professor Hal Foster, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH November 2004 “What is Postmodernism? Artistic and Curatorial Theory and Practice.” Guest lecture given to “Philosophy of Art” and “Postmodern Musical Composition” courses Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH April 2004 Guest Lecture on Tristana and Hans Belmer in Department of Hispanic Studies interdisciplinary film course on the films of Luis Buñuel and Juan Luis Buñuel University of Delaware, Department of Art History, Newark, DE “The Fascist Self: (Re)locating de Chirico in Italian Modernism”

March 2002

Museum Lectures/Gallery Talks: Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Gallery talk on Linda Yun, Kara Crombie, Bruce Campbell, and Leah Ballis Galleries at Moore/Philagrafika, Philadelphia, PA Layers of History: Memorializing Murals in the Work of Gómez and González

April 2012 November 2011

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH November 2005 Baldwin Lecture. “Trace Elements: New Work at Oberlin.” Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and the Allen Memorial Art Museum. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Gallery Lecture on Yves Tanguy, The Satin Pillow in “Tuesday Tea” series.

November 2004

Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA February 2003 “Re-Collections: Peggy Guggenheim, Art of This Century and the Making of the History of Modern Art,” Art history lecture series on “What’s in the Attic? Collecting and Preserving Life’s Treasures.” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA May 2000 Collaborative program with University of Pennsylvania, College of General Studies Continuing Education Program. Mini-lecture series on Early Italian Renaissance Secular Art. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA “The New American Woman: (Re)dressing the Female Figure at the Paris 1900 Exhibition.”

March 2000

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA January 2000 “Female Space and Politics of Place: Feminism and Early Modernism in the work of Florine Stettheimer.”

SEMINAR PARTICIPATION: Scholars’ Day for Chaos and Classicism, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

November 2010

Invited participant. Scholars’ Day for Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Phila., PA Invited participant.

February 2009

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. January 2007 Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, 2007 Hess Seminar: “Literature and the Holocaust” (funded). Warburg-Haus, Hamburg, Germany March & October 2006 Warburg-Kolleg Seminar on “The Making of National Art,” focused on the relationship between art and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (funded). National Endowment for the Humanities Summer 2005 Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers: “Italian Fascism: History and Interpretations,” led by Professor Frank Snowden at the American Academy in Rome, Italy (funded).

COLLEGE SERVICE: Grants Committee, Maryland Institute College of Art (2007-2010; Chair 2010-2013) Organizer of Lunchtime Art History Colloquium Series, Maryland Institute College of Art (2007-2008; 2008-2009; 2009-2010; 2010-2011; 2011-2012; 2012-2013) Chair, Steering Committee on Graduate Program in Critical Studies (fall 2010-spring 2012) Mentor-at-Large, Exhibition Development Seminar, Maryland Institute College of Art (2010-2011) Co-Organizer, Mixed Media Series, Maryland Institute College of Art for Stan Douglas (2010-2011) Organizer, Visiting Artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock, Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism (Spring 2009) Member, Peer Evaluation Committee for Nadia Hironika, Department of Video, Maryland Institute College of Art (Fall 2008) Member, Peer Evaluation Committee for Joseph Basile, Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art (Fall 2008)` Member, Peer Evaluation Committee for Susie Brandt, Department of Fibers, Maryland Institute College of Art (Fall 2008) Member (by Dean’s invitation), Mixed Media Lecture Series Committee, Maryland Institute College of Art (Spring 2008) Member, Peer Evaluation Committee for Joan Watson, Department of Sculptural Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art (Spring 2008) Member, Search Committee for Modern and Contemporary Architecture; Adjunct Member, Search Committee for Visual Culture and Enlightenment Positions, Department of Art History Maryland Institute College of Art (Spring 2008) Reader, per course faculty evaluation for Kim Anderson, Department of Art History, Theory & Criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art (Spring 2008) Member, Peer Evaluation Committee for Monica Amor, Department of Art History, Theory & Criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art (Fall 2007) Reader, per course faculty evaluation for Kara Schenk, Department of Art History, Theory & Criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art (Fall 2007) Director of Digitization Initiative, Department of Art History, Theory & Criticism, Maryland Institute College of Art (2007-2009) Fulbright Committee, Maryland Institute College of Art (2007-2008) Member, Long Range Planning Committee, Maryland Institute College of Art (2007 to 2009); member, Sub-committee on Faculty Research (Fall 2008) Organizer, Dept. of Art History, Maryland Institute College of Art, Mixed Media lecture and related installation by Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock (March 2007) Organizer, Dept. of Art, Oberlin College, Baldwin Lecture Series: Dr. Lisa Silverman (April 2005); Dr. Isabelle Wallace (November 2003) Organizer, Dept. of Art, Oberlin College, Ellen Johnson Visiting Artist Series: Pepón Osorio (March 2005) Co-Organizer, Dept. of Art, Oberlin College, Clarence Ward Memorial Lecture in Architectural History

Series: Dr. James E. Young (March 2005); Dr. Dennis Doordan (March 2004)

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Member, Program Committee for The Print Center onward

Spring 2012

Outside Honors Examiner, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA

2010-2011

Exploration Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT Summer Seminar on Modern Art for high school students Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Research Assistant to Prof. Barbara Miller Lane.

Summer 2002 Fall 1999-Spring 2000

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Instructor of Italian for Painting Conservators.

Spring 2000

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Undergraduate Italian Film Series Director.

Fall 1999

Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Fall 1995-Fall 1998 Gallery docent. Organizer and leader of tours for school groups and the general public. Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA Summer 1995-Spring 1997 Library assistant, Visual Resources Collection. Research assistant/cataloguer of digital and slide images. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology, Philadelphia, PA Fall 1992-Spring 1993 Curatorial assistant, Mediterranean Section. Assistant cataloguer of replicas of ancient Pompeian objects in the Wanamaker Collection. Mager, Liebenberg, and White, Philadelphia, PA Legal assistant for senior partner in law firm specializing in sexual discrimination.

October 1993-May 1995

University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages, Philadelphia, PA Fall 1997 Semester-long seminar (ROMLA 690) on foreign language teaching; ACTFL Oral Proficiency Training.

FOREIGN LANGUAGE SKILLS: Italian: near-native fluency in reading, writing, and conversation; Modern Greek: fair reading, writing, and conversation; Spanish: good reading, writing, and some conversation; French: good reading and some conversation; Latin: reading; Ancient Greek: reading; German: good reading and some conversation.

REFERENCES: Academic: Steven Z. Levine, Leslie Clark Professor in the Humanities Department of History of Art Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Tel.: (610) 526-5333 E-mail: [email protected]

Lisa Saltzman, Professor Department of History of Art Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 Tel.: (610) 526-5346 E-mail: [email protected]

Barbara Miller Lane, Andrew W. Mellon Professor

Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor

Emerita and Professor Emerita of History Departments of History of Art and History Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 E-mail: [email protected]

Department of Art, Hunter College/CUNY 695 Park Avenue New York, NY 10021 Tel.: (212) 650-3756 E-mail: [email protected]

Alexander Nehamas, Edmund N. Carpenter II Class of 1943 Professor in the Humanities Department of Philosophy Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Tel.: (609) 258-4309 E-mail: [email protected]

Anson Rabinbach, Professor and Director Program in European Cultural Studies Department of History Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Tel.: (609) 258-5832 E-mail: [email protected]