FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND HONORS
External
2025. Invited Guest Professor, École des Hautes Études Pratiques, Paris
2024 DAAD Research Stay Grant
2022-23 Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Research Fellow
2017-20 NEH Scholarly Editions and Translation Grant
2018 Furthermore Grant in Publishing
2014-15 ACLS Fellowship
2014-15 Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, Visiting Fellow
2013 Canadian Centre for Architecture Support Grant
2012 Getty Library Research Grant
2011 Weimar Fellowship, Klassik Stiftung Weimar
2010-11 DAAD Research Visit Grant
1999-2000 Chateaubriand Fellowship, France
1999-2000 Dedalus Dissertation Fellowship
1998-99 Fulbright Full Grant
1998 Humanities and Social Science Research Grant, UC Berkeley
1996 Museum of Modern Art, H. Rubenstein Summer Internship
1996 Humanities Graduate Research Grant, UC Berkeley
1995 DAAD grant for language study in Germany
Internal
2022 Project Grant, Wesleyan University
2014 Project Grant, Wesleyan University
2012 Project Grant, Wesleyan University
2010 Project Grant, Wesleyan University
2008 Project Grant, Wesleyan University
2006 Publications Assistance Grant, Wesleyan University
2006 Project Grant, Wesleyan University
2005 Faculty Fellow, Wesleyan Center for Humanities
2003 Project Grant, Wesleyan University
CONFERENCE PAPERS, INVITED LECTURES, AND SYMPOSIA
As presenter (in refereed conferences and panels)
“Anni Albers, Textiles (1949): Defining Industrial Design at the Museum of Modern Art,” ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 15, Asheville, NC, October 25-27, 2024.
“The Birth of the Modernist Art Museum: The Folkwang as Gesamtkunstwerk,” Colloque “Les Apories de l’Art Total,” Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris, December 15–17, 2011.
“The Primitive and the Modern in Der Blaue Reiter and the Folkwang Museum,” “The Blue Rider Centenary Conference,” Tate Modern, London England, November 25–26, 2011.
“Abstraction and Theatricality: Hermann Obrist and Henry van de Velde at the 1914 Werkbund Exhibit,” at a conference “The Dimensions of Abstraction,” Henry Moore Institute, June 2010.
“Abstraction and Theatricality in Henry van de Velde’s Werkbund Theater,” AHNCA-sponsored session, “Theatricality and the Performative in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Annual Meeting, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Tampa Florida, 2010.
“Dionysian Modernism in the Work of Henry van de Velde and Ludwig von Hofmann,” in the session “The Classical Unconscious,” Annual Meeting, College Art Association, Los Angeles, 2009.
“The Art of Introspection: Symbolist Painting, Music, and the Home,” in the session “Other than the Visual,” Annual Meeting, Association of Art Historians, Leeds, England, April 2006.
“Tortured Unity: Modernism and Classicism in the Age of Dreyfus” in the session “The Classical Style: Was It Always Revered?” Annual Meeting, College Art Association, New York, February 2003.
“Intimate Expressions, Public Intentions: The Nature of Nabi Decoration in the 1890s” in the session “The Dialectics of Decoration in France, 1875–1925,” Annual Meeting, College Art Association, Chicago, February 2001.
Invited talks
“Anni Albers: Ancient and Modern Handweaving.” Handweavers’ Guild of Connecticut, May 2024
Keynote lecture for the symposium “Körper, Industrie, Utopie: Sammeln in der Lebensreformbewegung,” Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany, May 6, 2022.
“Vom Brussels zum Bauhaus: Ursprung und Wirkung van de Veldes Werk und Schriften, 1889-1914,” Tagung “Ein Flame in Deutschland: Henry van de Veldes Wirken für Europa und die Welt,” Villa Esche, Chemnitz, Germany, December 2019.
“From Brussels to the Bauhaus: The Origins and Impact of Henry van de Velde’s Work and Writings,” Yale Architecture Forum, October 2019.
“Henry van de Velde: Designing Modernism,” Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, April 2015.
“Building on the Past: The Bauhaus as Palimpsest,” Art History symposium “Monuments as Palimpsests,” Wesleyan University, Middletown CT. February 2014.
“Educating the Gesamtkunstwerk: Art School Reform in Germany, 1900–14,” 12th International Bauhaus Colloquium, Bauhaus University, Weimar Germany, April 2013.
“The Nabis and Narratives of Modernism,” at a conference, “The Nabis,” organized by the International Research Network Redefining European Symbolism, 1880–1910, Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, October 27–28, 2011.
“Henry van de Velde, Modernism, and the Total Work of Art,” Society of Architectural Historians, New York City Chapter, March 2010.
“Max Klinger and the Total Work of Art,” Graduate Colloquium Series, Music Department, Wesleyan University, December 2009.
“Interiorizing Wagner: The Nabis and the Gesamtkunstwerk,” at the symposium “Towards a Synaesthetic Modernity,” co-organized by Smith College and Wesleyan University, March 2008.
“Music and Modernism in the Graphic Arts,” a gallery talk, Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, January 2008.
“Intimité et foi, sphère privée et modernisme dans l’oeuvre nabie de Maurice Denis,” Colloque Maurice Denis, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, November 2006
“Maurice Denis’s Wagnerian Painting,” “Works in Progress” lecture series, Department of the History of Art, Yale University, March 2006.
“Masculinity, Domesticity, and the Psyche in Édouard Vuillard’s Vaquez Panels,” Wesleyan Center for Humanities, April 2005.
“Edouard Vuillard’s Art of Reverie,” Department of Art and Art History, Smith College, November 2005.
“The Unstable Bourgeois: Édouard Vuillard’s Interior Subjects,” Department of Art History, University of California Berkeley, March 2002.
As panel chair, symposium convener, or guest curator
Introduction to “Wesleyan in the 1830s: Historic Preservation and the Stories We Choose to Tell,” a two-day symposium at Wesleyan University, April 2024. Co-organized with Joseph Siry, Elizabeth Milroy, and Jesse Nasta. Keynote speaker: Tara Dudley (University of Texas at Austin).
Co-Chair of the double session “Formalism Before Clement Greenberg,” College Art Association, Washington DC, February 2016.
“Towards a Synaesthetic Modernity,” one-day symposium at Wesleyan University, March 2008 co-organized with André Dombrowski (then at Smith College, now at University of Pennsylvania). Funded by Offices of Academic Affairs at Wesleyan University and Smith College. Speakers included art historians Jenny Anger (Grinnell College), Tim Barringer (Yale University), André Dombrowski, Juliet Koss (Scripps College), and Debora Silverman (University of California, Los Angeles).
“Music and Modernism in the Graphic Arts, 1860-1910,” print exhibit at the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University, January-May 2008. Guest curator of a 50-piece exhibit devoted to Richard Wagner’s influence on the visual arts in France, England, Germany, Austria, and Belgium.
COURSES
ARHA 110 Introduction to Western Art, Renaissance to Modern (co-taught with Prof. Nadja Aksamija)
ARHA 239 Van Gogh: Modernity, Utopia, and Nineteenth-Century Art
ARHA 240 Revolutionary France and the Birth of Modern Art
ARHA 241 Introduction to the European Avant-Garde
ARHA 243 American Modernisms
ARHA 338 Bauhaus: Art, Craft, Design
ARHA 339 Modernism and the Total Work of Art