Michael Feinberg (Ph.D. Candidate) invites you to stop by the working group, Critique in the Postcolonial Anthropocene at the upcoming MLA conference. He will be presenting “Marcus Rainsford’s Revolutionary Ecologies in Historical Account,” on Saturday, January 9th, 2021 …
Graduate Students
Spring 2021 Course Highlight: “History of American Art: Art, Material Culture, and Constructions of Identity, 1607–present”
Ph.D. Candidate Travis Olson will be teaching AH 364 History of American Art: Art, Material Culture, and Constructions of Identity, 1607–present, MWF 11:00–11:50 am. To see this course and our other course offerings please click here.
Student Spotlight: Lindsay Wells Publishes Journal Article
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 …
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 …