teaching experience

Fall 2001- Assistant Professor of Art History, Division of Art and Design, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.

• History of Art Since 1400
• Twentieth-Century Art
• Art Since 1945

Fall 2000 - Spring 2001- Associate Professor with tenure, Art Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Fall 1995 - Spring 2000 - Assistant Professor, Art Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato.

Introductory level, undergraduate non-majors

• Introduction to Visual Culture

Introductory level, undergraduate majors

• Art History Survey II: Renaissance to Modern

Advanced Courses (advanced undergraduates and graduate students) *quarter system **semester system

• Nineteenth-Century Art*
• Modern Art*
• Realism to Postmodernism**
• Design: History and Theory**
• Life and Art of Picasso*
• Women in Art*
• Gender in Art**
• Baroque and Rococo Art*
• Mannerism to Romanticism**
• Italian Renaissance Art*
• Northern Renaissance Art*
• Renaissance Art**
• American Art*
• Asian Art**

1994-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Art, St. Olaf College, Minnesota. (Sabbatical Replacement)

• Survey of Renaissance to Modern Art
• Nineteenth Century Art (offered with advanced writing requirement attached)
• Art of the United States (emphasizing artists of color, women artists and photography)
• Baroque and Rococo Art

seminars, museum lectures, short courses

Exploration Summer Program, Yale University

• "Introduction to Visual Culture" Summer Session I (July 2-20, 2001). (Course will use the collections
  of the Yale University Art Museum and the British Art Centre).

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

• Invited speaker for the program "On the Couch with Freud, Jung & the Surrealists," February 18, 2001.
• "Pimps, Prostitutes and Performers: Bohemian Montmartre," four hour seminar, September 23, 2000.
• "Women of Surrealism," four hour seminar, October 30, 1999.
• "Temptress or Muse: Images of Women from Prud'hon to Wesselmann in the Collection of the
  Minneapolis Institute of Arts," four hour seminar, January 23, 1999. Click here for an enhanced outline of this seminar.
• Intersections with Antiquity; European Graphic Arts and Painting 1760-1830. Offered at the
  Minneapolis Institute of Arts in conjunction with the exhibition of the same name. Offered through the
  University of Minnesota Department of Continuing Education.

University of Minnesota/University Art Museum

• "Vincent Van Gogh: Art and Letters" Continuing Education and Extension, Summer, 1995.
• "Edouard Manet: Father of Modernism?" Continuing Education and Extension, Summer, 1995.
• "Art of Picasso" Continuing Education and Extension, Fall, 1994.
• "Women of the Impressionist Circle" Continuing Education and Extension, Summer, 1994.
• "Art and Culture of Fin-de-Siecle Paris" Continuing Education and Extension, Summer, 1994.
• University Art Museum Lecture Series, Spring 1992. Six lectures on Japanese and French art delivered in
  conjunction with the Exhibition "Seeking the Floating World: The Japanese Spirit in Turn-of-the-Century French Art"
  (Organized by the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University).

other professional experience

• Reviewer for Choice since December, 1994. (8-12 reviews annually). Click here for list of reviews.
• Reviewer for European Studies Journal since 1994. (2-3 reviews annually)
• Reviewer for International Journal of Modernism.
• Co-Curator, "Nature Abstracted" Minneapolis Foundation, November 1996-January 1997.
• Co-Curator, Weisman Art Museum for the exhibition "Imaging Women," Spring, 1995.
• Intern, University of Minnesota Art Museum, 1992.