Current Students in History of Art
Benjamin Anderson
B.A., Williams College (Art and English), 1998; M.A., St. John's College, Annapolis (Liberal Arts), 2002; M.A., Bryn Mawr College (History of Art), 2004.
Research interests: Late Roman, early Byzantine, and early Islamic art and architecture; art and political philosophy; the historiography of art.
Conference papers presented at the National Gallery of Art (Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art), St. John's University (Delaware Valley Medieval Association), and Western Michigan University (40th International Congress on Medieval Studies).
Exhibitions curated: “The Invention of Antiquity,” Canaday Library, Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2004; “Iranica: modes of transmission,” with Yael Rice, Carpenter Library, Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2005.
Shira Backer
Katherine G. Beggs
Emily A. Bereskin
Alexander P. Brey
Mark Anthony Castro
Penelope M. Davenport
Maeve Kathleen Doyle
I came to Bryn Mawr after graduating from Vassar College in 2007 with a double major in Art History and Medieval & Renaissance Studies. My undergraduate work on a printed Book of Hours produced by Philippe Pigouchet and Simon Vostre in 1498 contributed greatly to my current interest in devotional manuscripts and issues of patronage in the later Middle Ages. I received my MA from Bryn Mawr in 2009 with a thesis entitled "Models of Devotion: Owner Portraits in the Aspremont-Kievraing Psalter-Hours." This work focused on illuminations in a devotional manuscript produced c.1300, today housed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, and I presented some of my conclusions at the 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies in Kalamazoo, MI. I plan to continue this work on portraiture in early 14th-century devotional manuscripts in my dissertation. My broader academic interests include lay piety and literacy in the later Middle Ages, manuscript production and consumption, marginal illuminations, and gender issues in the production and reception of medieval material culture, as well as later material, including 15th- and 16th-century painting in northern Europe and the advent of the printed book.
Rebecca Lynn Dubay
Matthew C. Feliz
Lori Anne Felton
Marie E. Gasper-Hulvat
Johanna Gosse
Jennifer S. Griffiths
Amy Elin Haavik-MacKinnon
Tienfong Ho
I am Ph.D. candidate in HART, and a GA in Special Collections. I have been a TA in the Film Program for four semesters and will be assisting again next year in the Cities Program. I have presented papers at various symposia: Carnegie Mellon University, Bryn Mawr College, University of Rochester, Case Western Reserve University, Cornell University, Florida State University, and The Art Institute of Chicago. In July 2008 I presented “Individual Expression via Forms of Repetition: Manual Labor, Mechanical Drudgery and Poetry in Bauman and Heller’s Film, Women of Summer,” at Bryn Mawr’s Summer Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration (HERS). My essay “The First Killing Fields Memorial: Mythmaking as Memorial Project” is published in Impermanence: Cultures in/out of Time, eds. Judith Schachter and Stephen Brockmann (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2008). “Absence of Evidence: Depicting the Truth of War,” published in Athanor XXII (2004), is my essay on Alan Cohen’s photographs.
Generally, my approach prioritizes the art object, initially encountering it via aesthetics before discussing meaning as a poststructuralist. In May 2007, Lisa Saltzman advised my second master’s thesis titled “Recording the Touch: Agnes Martin’s Grid Paintings.” The essay considers materiality and the autograph as alternatives to iconographic readings of the grid in Martin’s works. My first M.A. in Modern Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004, advised by British philosopher Michael Newman and James Elkins, analyzes the First Killing Fields Memorial (Chicago, 2004) and Alan Cohen’s photograph series On European Ground. My dissertation research returns to the topic of monuments and memorials, through investigating non-linear and fragmentary forms of narration (e.g. Freud, Nora, Bergson, Proust, and Benjamin). Applying strategies of how narrative and memory are represented in film, sculpture and landscape (Krauss, Bois, Deleuze, and Ackbar), I aim to foreground ways in which memory differs from archived facts and documentation, and hence seek the possibility of realizing these differences in the three-dimensional forms and sites of public monuments.
Robin Kim
Lisa Kohn
Melissa J. Meier
Mey-Yen Moriuchi
Jamie L. Richardson
Carrie M. Robbins
Lesley E. Shipley
Irina D. Stotland
Marissa Vigneault
I am a seventh-year graduate student working on completing my dissertation, with a planned defense date of fall 2009. My dissertation focuses on the contemporary Israeli-French psychoanalyst and artist Bracha L. Ettinger, and the relationship between her theoretical writings and artistic production as analyzed through a combination of feminist and psychoanalytic approaches. My areas of interest include 19th century French painting, early 20th century American art and Contemporary art. I have a BA in Art from Hood College (1999) and an MA in Art History from American University (2002). I am also an adjunct instructor of art history at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia.
Angelique Wille
