Elizabeth K. Menon
Art Historian

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. (1994), University of Minnesota.
  Dissertation: "The Cultural History of M. Mayeux in 19th-century French Graphic Art and Literature."
• M.A. (1991), University of Minnesota
• B.A. (1990) summa cum laude, University of Minnesota.

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 used 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.
• 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).

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS:

• (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:

• "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," Paris Dada: The Barbarians Storm the Gates, Crisis and the Arts: The History of Dada, vol. VI,, 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 Reincarnating 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.

ARTICLES:

• "The Utopian Mayeux: Saint-Simon meets the bossu a 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-Pelagie 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'Emigre 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:

• 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.

CURRENTLY UNDER CONSIDERATION:

• "Decadent Addictions: Women Drinking and Smoking in Fin-de-Siecle Cafes and Cabarets" (essay under consideration for inclusion in a book of essays, University of Delaware Press).

WRITING AND RESEARCH IN PROGRESS:

• Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale in Nineteenth-Century France. (book project)
• Paper Ladies: Images of Women in French Popular Culture. (book project).
• Le Vice Supreme: Prostitution and Witchcraft in fin-de-siecle Paris. (book project).
• Design: History and Theory. (textbook project).
• "Serpent Culture: A Context for Toulouse-Lautrec's Poster of Jane Avril" (article).
• "Anatomy of a Motif: The Metaphorical Foetus" (article).
• "Art History Through A Glass, Darkly: Cynical Truth in the work of Leriche, Morimura and Sherman," paper accepted for presentation at SPE, Las Vegas NV, March, 2002.
• "Topographical Pleasures of Paris: French National Identity according to La Vie Parisienne" paper accepted for 6th Conference of Urban Historians, Edinburgh, UK, September, 2002.
• "The Future of the Present: Albert Robida, Henri Desmarest and the Women's Rights Movement," paper proposed for Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Savannah, GA, March 2002.
• "Evil by Design: The Creation and Marketing of the Femme-Fatale in 19th-century France," paper proposed for University of Chicago-Loyola, April, 2002.
• "Let's Get Subconscious: Madonna -- Surrealism -- Poststructuralism," paper proposed for MAHS, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2002.
• "Postmodern Material Girl: Appropriation, Deconstruction, the Gaze and Madonna," paper proposed for Association of Women Art Historians, Berlin, Germany, July, 2002.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION:

• "Has Post-Structuralism Gone Too Far?" session chair (accepted for for CAA Annual Conference, 2002).
• "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-Siecle France" (Annual Conference, February 12-16, 1997, New York, New York).
  

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 Grevin'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.
  

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.

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," April 5-7, 2001, Minneapolis, MN.
• "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.

MISCELLANEOUS VENUES:

• "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 18-20, 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 Siecle 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 a 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.

EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS

Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

• Teaching Academy workshops: Syllabus development, Assessment & Evaluation strategies, Active Learning.
• MIDC computer workshops: Adobe Photoshop; Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash & Fireworks; Adobe Premiere.

Minnesota State University, Mankato

• Faculty workshop, Design and Delivery of Digital Learning Materials, July 10-15, 2000.
• Public presentation and workshop "Visual Art and Public Art," Arts Festival Hosted by Minnesota State University, Mankato, 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

• "Assembling and Using Teaching Portfolios," Spring Quarter, 1994.

OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

• Reviewer for Choice since December, 1994. (8-12 reviews annually).
• 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.

TECHNOLOGY

• Cross-platform user: Microsoft Office suite, Filemaker Pro, Endnote.
• Web-building skills: Dreamweaver, FrontPage, Raw Html
• Digital Delivery of Course Materials (Powerpoint)
• Web Delivery of Course Materials - (contracted agency) Blackboard, WebCT, Jenzabar, UCompass, Intrakal
• Web Delivery of Course Materials - (self-designed) Coursebuilder for Dreamweaver, Authorware (in development)

AWARDS

• Faculty Research Grant, Mankato State University, 1995-96; 1996-97; 1998-99.
• Teaching Fellowship, Mankato State University, Summer 1997.
• Lilly Fellowship in the Humanities and the Arts, Valparaiso University, 1995-1997 (declined)
• Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, Univerity of Minnesota, 1993-1994
• Departmental Nominee, Samuel Kress dissertation grant, 1993
• Graduate School Inducement Fellowship, 1990-1991
• Elizabeth Roe Fellowship, 1991-1992
• Teaching Assistantship, 1991-1992 and 1992-1993
• Research Assistantship, 1991-1992 and 1993-1994
• Mellon Research Grant, 1992-1993
• Comite International d'Histoire de l'Art, Scholarship to Berlin Conference, July 15-20, 1992.

ASSOCIATIONS

• Phi Beta Kappa
• College Art Association
• National Association for Humanities Education
• Minneapolis Institute of Arts Print Council
• Association of Nineteenth-Century Historians of Art
• Midwest Art History Association
• Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

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