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Joan DelPlato
Art History and Women's Studies
Division: Arts and Aesthetics
Appointment: 1987
Education:
Ph.D. in Art History, UCLA 1987;
M.A. in Art History, UCLA 1980;
B.A. in Art History, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, University of Buffalo, 1975.
Areas of Interest:
Issues of gender and class in art, 19th-century art in England and France, late Harlem Renaissance art, contemporary culture, Orientalism, and critical methods.
Previous Teaching:
California State College, Long Beach; Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
Other Activities:
She was a esearch associate at the Getty Center for Art History and Humanities, and received grants from the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and UCLA .
Recent Professional Activities:
(1) Panel chair and Speaker, "Oriental Erotics" College Art Association (CAA) Conference, Philadelphia, PA. Paper title: "The Modern Harem Picture: Manet, Renoir, Bazille, and the Legacy of Delacroix" (2/02).
(2) PAPER: "Heroizing Black Femininity in the Late Harlem Renaissance: Jacob Lawrence's Harriet Tubman Series," Five Colleges Women Studies Research Center, Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (11/01).
(3) PAPER: "Why We Have Loved Jacob Lawrence: The Race Politics of Heroizing His Art," National Conference on Liberal Arts and the Education of Artists, School of Visual Art, New York City (10/01).
(4) Panel Moderator: "19th-Century French Orientalist Art, Orientalism: An International Affair" The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA. (7/00).
(5) "Legitimation Crisis? Philip Morris' Art Exhibition Sponsorship in the 1990s," ReThinking Marxism Conference, U. Mass., Amherst (9/00).
(6) NEH Seminar participant, Victorian Culture and Society, Yale University.
MEMBER:
CAA; Nineteenth Century Studies Association; Historians of British Art; Historians of 19th-century Art.
ASSOCIATE:
Five Colleges Women's Studies Research Center, Mt. Holyoke College, Fall 2001.
Publications:
Multiple Wives, Multiple Pleasures: Representing the Harem, 1800-1875 (2002, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press); winner, Millard Meiss Manuscript Preparation Award, CAA.
Recent Articles:
(1) "Passivity and Politics in Delacroix's 1834 Women of Algiers" in Amy Tucker, Visual Literacy, New York: McGraw-Hill, 2001, 244-51.
(2) "Henri Lefebvre's Critique of Space as Interdisciplinary Paradigm: Desire and Colonialism in Three Harem Pictures by Delacroix, Renoir and Lewis," in Gendered Landscape, eds. B. Szczygiel et al., Pennsylvania State University, 2000, 68-81.
She has presented conference papers at the College Art Association, 19th-Century Studies Association, Popular Culture Association, and Institute for the Study of Postsecondary Pedagogy.
She has published articles in Eighteenth-Century Women and the Arts, Gender & Education, Afterimage, and Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Contact Information:
Office: Daniel Art Center
Phone: 413-528-7412
Fax: (413)-528-7365
Email: delplato@simons-rock.edu