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Bio
My initial work after receiving a master’s degree at Syracuse University was as an advisor/counselor to freshmen women in a residence hall at Miami University. From this experience I learned to listen to students and changed careers to my real passion—art history. I teach primarily late nineteenth- and twentieth-century art. My particular focus for a number of years was Picasso’s treatment of the Spanish literary figure, La Celestina. My work on the art of R.B. Kitaj has lead to a larger focus on Holocaust representation in both naturalistic and abstract languages. I am interested if the actual impact of human deaths is diminished by the use of abstraction.
I have published the following:
Out of Context: American Artists Abroad, co-editor, Greenwood Press, 2004 including my chapter, “R.B. Kitaj: Painting as Personal Voyage.” Forthcoming is “The Pigeon in Picasso’s Art and Life: An Abbreviated Look,” Creativity and Madness: Psychological Studies of Art and Artists, Vol 2, American Institute of Medical Education Press, 2009.
I have published in the following journals:
Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Sculpture, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Ceramics: Art and Perception, Printmaking Today, Landscape Architecture Journal, Celestinesca, Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Schatzkammer der Deutschen Sprache, Dichtung und Geschichte, Analecta Husserliana: The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, International Journal of the Arts, Jewish Art, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Exu: Atlantic Journal of the Crossroads in addition to reviews and encyclopedia entries.
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