The department has seven faculty members who cover the history
of art in Europe and the Americas from early Christian Rome
through contemporary film. Particular emphases are the medieval
afterlife of classical art and artifacts (Dale Kinney), the
Italian Renaissance and its historiography (David Cast),
Spain and its colonies (Gridley McKim-Smith), the Netherlands
and Germany (Christiane Hertel),19th-century France (Steven
Levine), and post-World-War II art, theory, and film (Lisa
Saltzman, Homay King).
In their
scholarship and teaching, the faculty represent a range of critical
and interpretive
positions from art history in the tradition of Erwin Panofsky
through its post-structural critique, including feminist
and gender theory, psychoanalytic theory, reception theory,
and semiotics.
