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EDUCATION
CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENT
COURSES TAUGHT - BUTLER UNIVERSITY
Introductory level, undergraduate (core curriculum)
Advanced Courses (advanced undergraduates and graduate students)
PRIOR ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
COURSES TAUGHT - PURDUE UNIVERSITY
Introductory level, undergraduate majors
Advanced Courses (advanced undergraduates and graduate students)
Graduate Seminars
COURSES TAUGHT - MINNESOTA STATE UNIVERSITY
Introductory level, undergraduate non-majors
Introductory level, undergraduate majors
Advanced Courses (advanced undergraduates and graduate students)
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS & COURSES TAUGHT
1994-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Art, St. Olaf College, Minnesota.
Summer 1995
Instructor, University of Minnesota, Continuing Education and Extension, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
1994
Instructor, University of Minnesota, Continuing Education and Extension, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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.
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Art, Mankato State University.
Teaching Specialist, University of Minnesota, Continuing Education and Extension, Rochester.
PUBLICATIONS (note many of these are under the name Elizabeth K. Menon)
BOOKS:
Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale, University of Illinois Press, 2006.
(with Gabriel P. Weisberg), Art Nouveau: A Research Guide for Design Reform in France, Belgium, England, and the United States. New York: Garland, 1998.
The Complete Mayeux: Use and Abuse of a French Icon. Berne: Peter Lang, 1997.
BOOK ESSAYS:
"Guilt or Gold: Alchemy and Prostitution in 19th-century Paris," in Art and Alchemy, edited by Jakob Wamburg. Museum Tusculanum Press in Copenhagen, Denmark.
"Web Installation Art, Interactivity and ŌUser ConnectivityÕ," in Image and Imagery: Frames, Borders, LimitsŠInterdisciplinary Perspectives, edited by Leslie Boldt-Irons, Corrado Federici and Ernesto Virgulti. Peter Lang Publishers, 2005, pp. 25-44.
" Decadent Addictions: Women Drinking and Smoking in fin-de-sicle Cafes" in In Sickness and in Health, edited by Laurinda S. Dixon, University of Delaware Press & Associated University Presses, 2004, pp. 101-124.
"Communicating Vessels: Digital Semiotics and Web Installation Art," in DRH 2001 and 2002. Selected papers from the Digital Resources for the Humanities Conferences at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in September 2001 and at Edinburgh University Library in September 2002, edited by Jean Anderson, Alistair Dunning and Michael Fraser, Office for Humanities, King's College, London, UK, 2003, pp. 193-202.
"Images of Pleasure and Vice: Women on the Fringe," Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture, pp. 37-71, ed. Gabriel P. Weisberg, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutger's University Press, 2001.
"The Excrement of Power: Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi and Paris Dada," in Paris Dada: The Barbarians Storm the Gates, vol. VI of Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, pp. 33-66. ed. Elmer Peterson, New York: G.K. Hall, 2001.
"Fashion, Commercial Culture and the Femme-Fatale: Development of a Feminine Icon in the French Popular Press," Analecta Husserliana. The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol. LIII, The Reincarating Mind or the Ontopoietic Outburst in Creative Virtualities, pp. 363-379. Edited by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.
"The Image that Speaks: the Significance of M. Mayeux," in The Popularization of Images: Visual Culture Under the July Monarchy (1830-1848), pp. 37-57. Edited by Petra Chu and Gabriel P. Weisberg, Princeton University Press, 1994.
INVITED ARTICLES/QUOTATIONS IN PRESS/NEW MEDIA PUBLICATIONS
"The Conceptual Aesthetic of Jason Salavon," Ciel Variable 64 (June, 2004), pp. 27-28.
"Charles Gick's Drought Table," Aspect: The Chronicle of New Media Art, vol. 3, April 2004 (this is an interactive DVD magazine).
"From Pataphysics to Postmodernism: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle," The Ryder, Bloomington IN, July 18-August 28, 2003, pp. 26-34.
Interviewed by S.L Berry, Indianapolis Star; quoted in "A provacateur attempts to shake up art world," cover story for Indianapolis Star Weekend, August 22, 2003, section G, p.4.
REFEREED ARTICLES:
" Henry SommÕs Commercialization of Women: Feminism in the Marketplace" ," Nineteenth-Century Art Wordwide. A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, special issue edited by the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, March, 2005 issue (on-line: http://www.19thc-ArtWorldwide.org)
" Neo-Panofsky: Iconography and Iconology for the Twenty-First Century," in Changing Tides: Selected Readings from the selected readings from the International Visual Literacy Association, edited by Robert E. Griffin, pp. 199-205.
"Anatomy of a Motif: The Metaphorical Fetus," Nineteenth-Century Art Wordwide. A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, January, 2004 issue (on-line: http://www.19thc-ArtWorldwide.org).
"Ut Pixel Poesis: Strategies for Analyzing Art in a Changing Context," in Turning Trees: Selected Readings of International Visual Literacy Association, edited by Robert E. Griffin, IVLA, Loredo, Philadelphia, 2003, pp. 157-164.
"The Utopian Mayeux: Saint-Simon meets the bossu à la mode," Canadian Journal of History/ Annales Canadiennes d’Histoire XXXIII (August, 1998), pp. 249-277.
"Visual Culture and Issues of Gender," Choice, July/August 1998, pp. 1809-1823.
"Tout Mayeux," Nouvelles de l'Estampe, no. 158 (May, 1998), pp. 6-27.
"Pierre-Paul Prud'hon's Union of Love and Friendship Reconsidered" Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. CXXX, (November 1997), pp. 155-166.
"The Science of Deformity: Mayeux le bossu and the Romantic Grotesque," European Romantic Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (Summer, 1996), pp. 26-39.
"Henry Somm: Impressionist, Japoniste or Symbolist?" Master Drawings, vol. 33, no. 1 (Spring, 1995), pp. 3-29.
"Philipon, Dr. Pinel, Ste-Pélagie and La Caricature" Source: Notes in the History of Art vol. 14, no. 1, (Fall, 1994), pp. 32-38.
"Victor Hugo and the Hunchbacks of the July Monarchy" Studies in the Humanities, vol. 21, no. 1 (June, 1994), pp. 60-71.
"Potty Talk in Parisian Plays: Henry Somm’s La Berline de l’Emigré and Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi." Art Journal vol. 52, no. 3, (Fall, 1993), pp. 59-64.
"Henry Somm’s Japonisme, (1881) in Context," Gazette des Beaux -Arts, February, 1992, pp. 89-98.
EXHIBITION CATALOG ENTRIES/GALLERY BROCHURE COPY:
"Techno-aesthetics: Identity, Language and Reality," Exhibition catalogue essay for Digital Concentrate, Purdue University Galleries, March-April, 2005.
"Fabiano Gonper," Exhibition catalogue essay co-authored with Petronio Bendito, Purdue University Galleries, March-April, 2005.
"Christos Koutsouras--A Conception of Virtue,' Exhibition catalogue essay for the exhibition of the same name, sponsored by the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, October, 2004.
"Perception and Poetry: The Art of Charles Gick," Brochure copy for the exhibition Flowers from the Mouth, St. Louis Art Museum, October, 2004.
Brochure copy for "Charles Gick's Ritual/Myth/Dirt/Spit", I Space Gallery, Chicago IL, December 12, 2003-January 31, 2004.
Catalog entries for prints and drawings by Henry Somm in Women of Fashion: French and American Images of Leisure 1880-1920, p. 148, 152, 153. Tokyo: Art Life Ltd., 1993.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES:
"Japonisme" (with Gabriel P. Weisberg) for The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, pp. 318-320.
"Art Nouveau" (with Gabriel P. Weisberg) for The Eighteen Nineties: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art and Culture. New York: Garland Publishing, 1993, pp. 21-22.
PUBLICATIONS IN PRESS:
BOOK CHAPTERS:
"Virtual Reality, Techno-Aesthetics and Metafictions of Digital Culture," State of the Real, Tauris Press, UK. Expected date of publication, Spring 2006.
"Les Filles d'Eve in 19th-Century Word and Image," for a book of essays titled Writing and Seeing, edited by Rui Carvalho Homem, Departamento de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Faculdadae de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.
"Icons of Evil: Amazones and their Toys" for a book of essays tentatively titled Iconography of Gender, edited by Gyrgy E. Sznyi, University of Szeged, Hungary.
"Paper Ladies: Iconography of the Nineteenth-Century Cocotte," Re-presentations and Re-constructions in Nineteenth-Century Art: Revisiting a Century, edited by Laurinda Dixon, Syracuse University. This book is under consideration by Delaware University Press.
CONFERENCE PAPERS / PANELS CHAIRED / INVITED SPEAKER
COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION:
"Cyborg Art History" in the session Untidy Minds: Current Problems in Intermedia Historiography, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, February 18-21, 2004.
"Has Post-Structuralism Gone Too Far" session chair, College Art Association Annual Conference, Philadelphia PA, February.
"Renaissance/Postmodern Time Warp: The Rocky Horror Picture Show's appropriation and manipulation of Art History," (Annual Conference, February 10-13, 1999, Los Angeles, CA).
"Decadent Addictions: representations of the highs and lows of smoking, drink and drugs in Fin-de-Siècle France" (Annual Conference, February 12-16, 1997, New York, New York).
MISCELLANEOUS VENUES:
" Henry SommÕs Commercialization of Women: Feminism in the Marketplace" at Symposium on Siegfried Bing and Art Nouveau, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, January 13-15, 2005."Ritual, Myth, Language and Memory," Association of Art Historians of New Zealand, December 1-3, 2004.
"From the Abject to the Beautiful: the Conceptual Aesthetic," Image and Imagery: Beauty and the Abject, Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, October 13-14, 2004.
"Femme/Fleur: Emile GalleÕs Vessels and Floral Symbolism," Emile Gall Centenary, University of Bristol, UK, September 17-18, 2004.
"The Future of Postmodernism" Crossroads in Cultural Study, Fifth International Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaight, June 25-28, 2004 (cultural studies/critical methodologies session).
"Art as Commodity" Crossroads in Cultural Study, Fifth International Conference, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaight, June 25-28, 2004 (open session).
"Art and Evolutionary Biology" International Conference of the Society for Literature and Science, Paris, France, June 23-25, 2004.
"Art of Code and the Aesthetic of the Database," Ciber@art 2004, International Conference in Bilbao, Spain, April 24-29, 2004
"La Femme Future: Predictions of the Feminine in Late 19th-century Literature," Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January 8-11, 2004.
"Diversity and Art History: Strategies and Practical Applications," AEAI (Art Educators Association of Indiana), November, 2003.
"Virtual Reality, Techno-Aesthetics and Metafictions of Digital Culture," Glasgow School of Art, November 21-22, 2003.
"Neo-Panofsky," International Visual Literacy Annual Conference, Providence, RI, October 1-5, 2003.
"The Future of the Present: Albert Robida, Henri Desmarest and the Women's Rights Movement," SLS 2003, Rethinking Space and Time, Austin, TX, October 23-26, 2003.
"Contemporary Art History: Dealing with the Digital," Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, HI, January, 2003.
"Videogaga: Matthew Barney's Cremaster and the history of Video Art," Indianapolis Arts Center (sponsored by the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art), August.
"The Artist 'in your face'–body Art, Performance and Matthew Barney," Ball State University/City of Indianapolis Regional Planning Center (sponsored by the Indianapolis Eye and the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art), August.
"From Alfred Jarry to Matthew Barney: Reason Takes a Holiday," Phoenix Theatre, Indianapolis (sponsored by the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art), August.
Invited Presentation, "Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale in 19th-century France." University of Chicago-Loyola, April.
"Art History Through A Glass, Darkly: Cynical Truth in the work of Leriche, Morimura and Sherman," Society of Photographic Educators National Conference, Las Vegas NV, March.
"Transinstallation Art and Issues of Communication," Image and Imagery: Borders, Frames Limits," Brock University, St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada, October. (This presentation included colleague Charles Gick’s installation at Valparaiso University).
" Ut Pixel Poesis: Strategies for Analyzing Art in a Changing Context," International Visual Literacy Association Annual Meeting, Breckenridge Colorado, October.
"Communicating Vessels: Digital Semiotics and Web Installation Art," DRH2002, Digital Resources in the Humanities, Edinburgh, UK, September.
"Mapping the Pleasures of Paris," Sixth International Conference on Urban History, "Power, Knowledge and Society in the City, Edinburgh, UK, September 4-7, 2002.
"Guilt or Gold: Alchemy and Prostitution in 19th-Century Paris," Art & Alchemy, International Congress, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, December, 2001.
"Man-made Paradise: Zola's Au Bonheur des dames, Shopping & Popular Illustration," Southeastern College Art Conference, Columbia SC, October, 2001.
"Topographical Pleasures of Paris: French National Identity According to "La Vie Parisienne," Manifestations of National Identity in Modern Europe. International Conference in European Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, May, 2001.
"Master-Slave Narratives in Popular French Illustration," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies Conference, Paris-Nanterre, June 22-24, 2000.
"Women on the Fringe: Performers and Prostitutes in Montmartre," invited speaker, conference on Montmartre sponsored by the University of Minnesota and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, March 5-6, 1999.
"Balzac, the Mal du Siècle and the Creation of M. Mayeux," Western Society for French History, October 14-16, 1997, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
"The Utopian Mayeux: Saint-Simon, Fourier and Cabet meet the bossu à la mode," Society for Utopian Studies, 20th Annual Conference, October 19-22, 1995, Toronto, Canada.
"Fashion, Commercial Culture and the Femme-Fatale: Development of a Feminine Icon in the French Popular Press," Second World Phenomenology Conference, Universidad del Valle de Atemajac, September 11-18, 1995, Guadalajara, Mexico.
"Laughter under Louis-Philippe; the Humor of M. Mayeux," The World of Laughter and the Laughter of the World in Paris CORHUM-Universite Paris VIII, Tenth International Humor Conference July 6-9, 1992, Paris, France.
"Seduced by Japonisme; The Art of Henry Somm," Seeking the Floating World: The Japanese Spirit in Turn-of-the Century French Art, International Symposium, University of Minnesota Art Museum,May 9, 1992.
"The Significance of M. Mayeux," Conference on the Art and Culture of the July Monarchy
University of Minnesota, 1991.
EUROPEAN STUDIES CONFERENCE – Omaha, Nebraska.
"Fictional Spaces for Dangerous Ladies in the art of Alfred Robida," 2001.
"Fetus Envy: Anti-feminism, Depopulation and the Bottled Fetus," 2000.
"Theatre of the Absurd or Theatre de la Merde? Alfred Jarry’s Ubu plays in the context of Paris Dada," and panel chair for In Art’s Way and Design Reform: Europe and America, 1895-1900, 1999.
"Fictive Fashions: Alfred Grévin's Imaginary Costumes and the 'New Eve'," Views of Theatre and panel chair for Issues in Homoerotic Literature and Topics in French and German Literature, 1998.
"Un Joujou dangereux: La Cocotte in France's Belle-Epoque," Women and the European Culture at the turn of the 20th century and panel chair for France in Modern Europe, 1997.
"Love, Friendship and the Terror: Prud'hon's Mythology," Themes in French Art and panel chair for session Literary and Artistic Inspirations, 1996.
"Fashion, Impressionism and the Femme-Fatale: the Art of Henry Somm" Portrayals of Women and panel chair for session Gender and Oppression, 1995.
"Consuming Mayeux: Strategies of Bourgeois Print Imagery of the July Monarchy" French Art of the 19th Century and panel chair for the session Issues in Modern Art, 1994.
MIDWEST ART HISTORY SOCIETY
"Theory Bites: Strategies for Teaching Theory in a Studio Program," (in the Teaching Strategies and Instructional Design Session); member of steering committee, session chair for "Gender Studies," Midwest Art History Society, Minneapolis, MN, March, 2001.
"Manipulating Maidens: amazones and their minions in 19th-century illustration," April 6-8, 2000, Tulsa, OK.
"Introduction to Visual Culture for non-art majors: Modifications of the Survey," April 2-4, 1998, Chicago IL.
"Picasso's Selective Memory: Of Women and Armchairs," March 28-31, 1996, Cleveland, OH.
THE FANTASTIC IN THE ARTS – Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
"Phallic Portraiture: Male/Female Identity in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries," 1996.
"Surrealism and Sexual Fantasy: Charcot, Hysteria and the Representation of Women in Surrealist Art,"1995.
NINETEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
"Amazones and their Toys–Masculine Nightmare or Feminine Fetish?" Arlington, VA, 2000.
"The Impressionist Table: Henry Somm's Porcelain Designs for the Haviland Company," Miami, 1996.
"Mayeux and the Changing Nature of the Bourgeoisie under the July Monarchy, " Baltimore, 1995.
EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCES/SEMINARS/PUBLIC LECTURES
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art
"Contemporary Landscape Art," Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, September, 2004.
Panel Participant (with faculty from Herron School of Art and curators from the Indianapolis Arts Center) on the subject of Matthew Barney's Cremaster Series, Key Cinemas, Indianapolis (sponsored by the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art), August, 2003.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
"Minimalism and Conceptual Art," Indianapolis Museum of Arts for the Contemporary Art Society, May, 2003."Artists of DIA Beacon," Indianapolis Museum of Arts for the Contemporary Art Society, June 2003.
"Deborah Butterfield and Nam June Paik", Indianapolis Museum of Arts for CAS, October, 2003.
Invited Speaker, "Balthus, Still Life on Windowsill,' Indianapolis Museum of Art, (sponsored by the Contemporary Arts Society), November, 2002.
Purdue University Galleries
"The History of Landscape and the Picturesque Tour," September, 2003.
"Still Life in Context," February, 2002.
Other Indiana Venues
"Evil by Design," Wabash Artist's Alliance, November , 2003.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Invited Speaker "On the Couch with Freud, Jung & the Surrealists," Minneapolis Institute of Arts, February 18, 2001.
"Women of Surrealism," four hour seminar, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, October 30, 1999.
"Temptress or Muse: Images of Women from Prud’hon to Wesselmann in the Collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts," January 23, 1999 (four hour seminar).
Mankato State University
Public presentation and workshop "Visual Art and Public Art," Arts Festival Hosted by Mankato State University, October 15, 1997.
Panel Chair and Presenter, "Synthesizing Experience: Multidisciplinary Educational Traditions and Reality," The Collaboration, February 21-22, 1997 meeting.
University Development Day (Nov. 1, 1995); attended sessions titled "Innovations in Higher Education Assessment" and "Establishing a Student Advisory Council for a Professor."
Faculty Development Conference (Nov. 9 & 10, Bloomington, MN, 1995).
Bush Mini-Conference on Interactive College Teaching Strategies/Case Method Teaching (May 18-19, Winona, Minnesota, 1994).
St. Olaf College
Boldt Seminar for improvement of teaching methods (Spring Semester, 1995)
Teaching Learning Center seminars on grading, critical thinking, journals, improving comprehension of reading and stimulating discussion.
"Writing across the College" program; worked closely with the Director of the Academic Support Center to implement a course that carried the AWC/WRI writing requirement.
University of Minnesota/University Art Museum
"Assembling and Using Teaching Portfolios," Spring Quarter, 1994.
University Art Museum Lecture Series, Spring 1992, University of Minnesota. 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
AWARDS
ASSOCIATIONS