Ph.D. Candidate Lindsay Wells recently published her article “Proserpina Unbound: John Ruskin, Maria La Touche, and Victorian Floriculture” in the Winter 2020 issue of Victorian Literature and Culture. Lindsay’s essay reinterprets Ruskin’s late-nineteenth-century botanical writings from the perspective …
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Student Spotlight: Traveling Traditions–Nordic Folk Arts
Sustaining Scandinavian Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest opens its traveling exhibition, “Traveling Traditions: Nordic Folk Arts in the Upper Midwest,” featuring fieldwork by Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer. The exhibition is the culmination of a …
Student Spotlight: Özlem Eren Publishes Case Study
Ph.D. Student Özlem Eren has published a monument case study for the St. Demetrios Cathedral in Vladimir in the Mapping Eastern Europe Project by North of Byzantium (NoB). The project is focused on the history, …
Student Spotlight: Chapter 2 of Jessica Cooley’s “Indisposable”
We are pleased to announce the next online chapter of Indisposable: Structures of Support After the ADA, co-curated by Jessica Cooley (UW-Madison, Art History, Ph.D. Candidate) and Ann M. Fox. A year-long online exhibition created for the Ford Foundation Gallery, chapter 2 …
Student Spotlight: Silvio Barile’s Sculpted World
Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer contributes to Tesserae, a new blog by and for emerging Art Historians. Her entry “Performance Art and the Sculpted World of Silvio Barile” conceptualizes the art environment artist and his work as a …
Student Spotlight: COVID & Reimagining Public Programming
In times of COVID, Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer reimagines public outreach as managing editor for Wisconsin 101, developing public programming with local historical societies and on-demand educational resources in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society. Learn …
Student Spotlight: Cortney Anderson Kramer (Ph.D. Candidate) Publishes Article “The Aura of Eccentricity”
Ph.D. Candidate Cortney Anderson Kramer has published her article “The Aura of Eccentricity: Reflections on Outsider Art Rhetoric and its Impact on a Critical Discourse” in the latest edition of the Material Culture Review. This article explores the rhetoric …
You’re Invited to the 2020 Schewe Award Lecture!
Please join us tomorrow, October 30th at 4:00pm CDT for PhD Student Katie Gallman’s presentation of her 2020 Schewe Award paper “Bioscleave Versus Biology: Seeking the Utopia of Immortality in Architecture.” You can join the …
Student Spotlight: Claire Kilgore (PhD Student) & Tania Kolarik (PhD Candidate) Publish Book Reviews
The 51st volume of Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, published this October, contains book reviews by Claire Kilgore (PhD Student) and Tania Kolarik (PhD Candidate). Kilgore reviewed Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis’ book The Care of Nuns: The Ministries of …
Student Spotlight: Ph.D. Student Özlem Eren Publishes Case Study in “The Encyclopedia of the Global Middle Ages”
Ph.D. Student Özlem Eren has published a case study about the Russian triptych with the Mandylion (1637), currently located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, in the Bloomsbury Medieval Studies’ The …