updated: July 15th, 2014

University of Pennsylvania
Department of the History of Art
Jaffe Building, 3405 Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

tel.: 215-573 7027 fax: 215-573 2210
adom@sas.upenn.edu

Home address:
1012 South 49th Street Philadelphia, PA 19143

Research Interests

André Dombrowski’s research centers on the arts and material cultures of France and Germany in the mid to late nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the histories of science, politics, and psychology. He is particularly concerned with the social and intellectual rationales behind the emergence of avant-garde painting in the 1860s and 1870s, including Impressionism. Winner of the Phillips Book Prize from the Center for the Study of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection, he is author of Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life (University of California Press, 2013). The book analyzes Cézanne’s early scenes of murder and sexual violence through the lens of pre-Freudian definitions of desire and instinct. He has started two new projects: one shorter book on the relation between Impressionism and the history of modern time-keeping (chapters will focus, for instance, on “reaction time” and the birth of Impressionism, or the advent of “universal time” in 1884 and its relationship to the serried order of Seurat’s pointillist technique); and a longer study that will situate the innovations of Édouard Manet’s major 1860s paintings within the Second Empire’s political and juridical cultures.

Academic Positions

Associate Professor with tenure, Nineteenth-Century European Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania (2014 – )
Assistant Professor, Nineteenth-Century European Art, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania (2008 – 2014)
Assistant Professor (2006-08) and Instructor (2005-06), Department of Art, Smith College

Education

Ph.D., Department of History of Art, University of California, Berkeley (1999-2006, degree May 2006), thesis: Modernism and Extremism: The Early Work of Paul Cézanne (1865-1875), advisers: T. J. Clark, Anne M. Wagner, Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Michael Lucey
M.A., The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London (1997-98, degree June 1998), thesis on James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), awarded Distinction
Magister Artium, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, University of Hamburg (1994-97, 1998- 99, degree June 2000): thesis on Hans von Marées (1837-1887), major in art history, minors in philosophy and classical archaeology
University of Vienna, visiting student in history of art and philosophy (Spring 1996)

Fellowships & Awards

Major Fellowships & Awards

Membership, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Princeton (2012-13), funded by The Herodotus Fund
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellowship, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2012-13), declined
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia (2012-13) ($ 6,000 in travel funds)
Winner of the 2009 Phillips Book Prize, for manuscript Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life, Center for the Study of Modern Art, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
J. Paul Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art and the Humanities, non- residential (2008-09)
Pre-doctoral Chester Dale Fellowship, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2004-05)
Two-year Dissertation Fellowship in Art History, Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Düsseldorf (2002-04) [ http://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/100doktoranden ]
Graduate Division Fellowship, Dean’s Dissertation Fellowship, Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley (1999-2002)
DAAD Fellowship (1997-98)

Other Fellowships & Awards

Trustees’ Council of Penn Women Summer Fellowship 2013, University of Pennsylvania ($5,000 in research funds)
Bakken Research Travel Grant, The Bakken Museum (History of Electricity and Technology), Minneapolis (Summer 2013) ($500 in travel subvention), declined
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Connect Program/Frontiers of Research, Universität Hamburg (April 2013) (EUR 2,500 in travel funds)
University Research Foundation Award, University of Pennsylvania, publication subvention grant for Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life (2011) ($ 6,900)
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Connect Program/Frontiers of Research, Universität Potsdam (June-July 2009) (EUR 2,500 in travel funds)
Jean Picker Fellowship, Summer Travel Award, Smith College (Summer 2007)
Mabelle McLeod Lewis Memorial Fund, Dissertation Fellowship (2005-06), declined
Kress Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, Samuel H. Kress Foundation (Summer 2004)
Getty Library Research Grant, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (December 2003)
Andrew W. Mellon Summer Travel Award, University of California, Berkeley (Summer 2001)
Erasmus Fellowship (Spring 1996)

Publications

Books

Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life, The University of California Press, Berkeley, December 2012, 310 pp. (2009 Phillips Book Prize)

Selected reviews:

*Alex Danchev, Times Higher Education (January 31, 2013): http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/books/czanne-murder-and-modern-lif…
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*Hubertus Kohle, Sehepunkte 14, no. 4 (2013):Rezensionsjournal für die Geschichtswissenschaften & Kunstform 14, no. 4 (2013) http://www.sehepunkte.de/2013/04/23249.html
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t http://www.arthistoricum.net/kunstform/rezension/ausgabe/2013/4/23249/
*Sheila Erwin, Portland Book Review (February 16, 2013) http://www.portlandbookreview.com/tag/andre-dombrowski/
*E. K. Mix, Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 50, no. 9 (May 2013): 1611
*Elizabeth Mansfield, H-France Review 14, no. 30 (February 2014): http://www.h-france.net/vol14reviews/vol14no30mansfield.pdf

In progress

Painting Time: Impressionism and the Modern Temporal Order
book manuscript [Study of the intersections between the history of Impressionism and the history of modern time-keeping, including the industrialization of time, the advent of universal time in 1884, the measuring of reaction time, and the concept of now-time.]

(forthcoming project)

Paul Cézanne: Form and Metaphor
collection of essays [Study of the social metaphors and practices—card-playing, building, brick-laying, sewing, and so on—embedded in Cézanne’s later work often described as assembled from “constructive” strokes.]

Edited Volumes

Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850- 1900, co-edited with Prof. S. Hollis Clayson (Northwestern University), forthcoming 2015
[including 12-page co-authored introduction and two 7-page single-authored section introductions, as well as major essay on Manet (see below)]

Peer-Reviewed Articles

“The Cut and Shuffle: Card Playing in Cézanne’s Card Players,”
in Satish Padiyar, ed., Modernist Games: Cézanne and His Card Players, Courtauld Institute of Art Research Forum online book, 2013, 34-67 http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/booksonline/modernistgames/
[first online peer-reviewed book by the Courtauld Research Forum, including essays by T. J. Clark and others]

“History, Memory, and Instantaneity in Edgar Degas’s Place de la Concorde,” The Art Bulletin 93, no. 2 (June 2011): 195-219
[2011 Malcolm Bowie Prize Commendation, Society of French Studies]

“Cézanne, Manet, and the Portraits of Zola,” in eds. Temma Balducci, Heather Jensen and Pamela Warner, Interior Portraiture and Masculine Identity in France, 1780-1914 (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011), 101-19

“The Emperor’s Last Clothes: Cézanne, Fashion and l’année terrible,” The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1242 (September 2006): 586-94

Other Articles, Book-Chapters, and Catalog-Essays

(accepted and in production)
“Cézanne and Wagner,”
Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Winter 2014/15.

(accepted and in production)
“The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History—Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
in ed. Jonathan David Katz, The Classical Nude and the Making of Queer History, exh. cat., Leslie Lohmann Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York, Fall 2014.

(accepted and in production)
“Living on Manet’s Balcony, or the Right to Privacy,”
in eds. S. Hollis Clayson and André Dombrowski, Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century? Essays on Art and Modernity, 1850-1900 (forthcoming 2015), 27 pp.

“Cézanne, Paris, l’année terrible and The Eternal Feminine,”
in ed. Denis Coutagne, Cézanne et Paris: Non-lieu? (Aix-en-Provence: Société Cézanne, 2013, online publication), http://www.societe-cezanne.fr/cezanne-lannee-terrible-and-the-eteranl-feminin/

“Brick by Brick: Cézanne’s Abandoned House near Aix-en-Provence,”
in ed. Heather MacDonald, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art at the Dallas Museum of Art: The Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Fall 2013), 84-95.

“Cézanne: Painting Murder,”
in ed. Denis Coutagne, Cézanne et Paris, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée du Luxembourg; and Éditions de la RMN, 2011), 104-07 (English edition: Cézanne and Paris)

“Wilhelm Leibl in Paris: International Realism during the Late Second Empire,”
in eds. Christian Fuhrmeister, Hubertus Kohle and Veerle Thielemans, American Artists in Munich: Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2009), 135-52

“The Untimely Classicism of Hans von Marées,”
in eds. Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Anne Dymond, Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2007), 84- 115

“Cézanne, L’Estaque und die Landschaft der Moderne,”
in ed. Jenns Howoldt, Im Licht des Südens, Marseille zu Gast, exh. cat. (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2006), 21-26

“Joseph Binder: Graphic Designer, Teacher, Advertising Theorist,”
in ed. Peter Noever, Joseph Binder: Wien–New York, exh. cat. (Vienna: Museum of Applied Arts, 2001), 52–77

“Francis Bacon,”
in ed. George E. Haggerty, Gay Histories and Cultures: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000), 87–88

“ ‘Liebesgeschichten interessierten ihn gar nicht:’ Überlegungen zur Geschlechterproblematik in der Atelierwand,”
in ed. Jenns Howoldt, Adolph Menzels Atelierwand, exh. cat. (Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1999), 60–62

Book and Exhibition Reviews, State-of-the-Field Essays

Review of Stephanie Marchal, Gustave Courbet in seinen Selbstdarstellungen (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2012) in Kunstchronik 9/10 (September/October 2013): 461-67.

Review of exhibition “Manet, inventeur du moderne,” Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2011, in Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 11, no. 1 (Spring 2012), online publication: http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/spring12/manet-inventeur-du-moderne

“Où est-on sur l’impressionnisme aujourd’hui?,”
with Marianne Alphant, S. Hollis Clayson and Richard Thomson, Perspective, INHA, Paris, no. 3 (2011): 509-22

Review of Thomas Cragin, Murder in Parisian Streets: Manufacturing Crime and Justice in the Popular Press, 1830-1900 (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006) in French Forum 34, no. 2 (Spring 2009), 151-54

Review of Matthias Krüger, Das Relief der Farbe: Pastose Malerei in der französischen Kunstkritik, 1850-1890 (Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2007), online publication: H-ArtHist, http://www.arthist.net/download/book/2008/080110Dombrowski.pdf (January 2008)

“Recent Cézanne-Scholarship in Germany,” in Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art Newsletter 12, no. 2 (Fall 2006): 1, 8

Lectures & Presentations

Invited Lectures

2014

“Manet, Portraying the Second Empire” Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, October 18, forthcoming

“The Meanings of Cézanne’s Still Lifes” The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, July 15

“Monet and the Wreckage of History” Impressionnisme et la politique, Colloque internationale, Terra Foundation of American Art and Musée des Impressionnismes Giverny, May 23

“Impressionism and Modern Time-Keeping” Aspen Art Museum, March 13

“Vom Symbolismus mal abgesehen” Symposium Odilon Redon and James Ensor: Between Symbol and Individual, Kunstmuseum Basel and Fondation Beyeler, March 7

“Painting at the Speed of Thought: Impressionism and Reaction Time” Eikones workshop, Universität Basel, March 6

2013

“Painting at the Speed of Thought: Impressionism and Reaction Time” Rutgers University, Art History Distinguished Speaker Series, November 14

“Cézanne’s Constructive Stroke” The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, November 10

“Impressionism and Modern Time-Keeping” University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, May 1

“Impressionism and the Standardization of Time” Agnes Claflin Fund Lecture, Vassar College, March 28

“Impressionism and the Standardization of Time” Rewald Seminar, Program in Art History, Graduate Center, CUNY, March 12

“Brick by Brick: Cézanne’s Abandoned House near Aix-en-Provence” Richard R. Brettell Lecture, Dallas Museum of Art, February 21

“Cézanne, Wagner, and the Origins of Art” Cézanne and the Past-conference, Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, January 28

“Cézanne, Murder, and Modern Life” – book talk Phillips Collection, Center for the Study of Modern Art, Washington, DC, January 24

“The Times of Impressionism” Colloquium, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, January 14

2012

“Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time” Wesleyan University, November 28

“L’Influence de la Commune sur Cézanne” Petit Palais/Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, Cézanne à Paris: non-lieu?-conference, organized by Denis Coutagne, February 24

“Manet, Abstraction, Democracy” University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art, Abstraction and Beyond– conference, organized by Kaja Silverman, February 10

2011

“The Art Critic, Then and Now” The Petr Konchalovsky Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia, November 25

“Seurat and the Standardization of Time” University of Delaware, October 20

“Seurat and the Standardization of Time” New Landscapes in 19th-Century Art History: Honouring Professor John House– conference, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, June 24

“Living on Manet’s Balcony, or the Right to Privacy” Bryn Mawr College, Center for Visual Studies, February 16

“The Cut and Shuffle: Form and Ethics in Cézanne’s Card Players” Conference in association with the Cézanne’ s Cardplayers-exhibition, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, January 15

2010

“Form, Value, Waste: The Economies of Manet’s Abject Still-Lifes” Temple University, December 6

“The Politics of Early Modernist Form: Degas/Manet” – lecture and seminar George Washington University, Washington, DC, October 14

“Reconsidering Cézanne” – lecture and seminar Purchase College, SUNY, October 12

“Wagner, Cézanne, and Early Modernist Painting in France” The Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, June 12

“The Global and the Local in Cézanne” – keynote Russia and the Global Cézanne Effect, 1900-1950-conference, The Petr Konchalovsky Foundation & The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, March 26

“Manet’s Street Philosophy” Harvard University, Humanities Center & Department of the History of Art and Architecture, March 10

2009

Participant and presenter in “pre-colloque” for exhibition Fashion, Impressionism, and Modernity at The Art Institute of Chicago, November 13-14

“Living on Manet’s Balcony, or the Right to Privacy” Is Paris Still the Capital of the 19th-Century? The Painting of Modern Life Now (A Clark Symposium), The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, October 31

“On Male Subjectivity and Early Modernist Painting” GAFOH 2009, American Philosophical Society & Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Universität Potsdam, October 18

“Richard Wagner and Early Modernist Painting” Wagner and the Transformation of European Culture-symposium, Bard Music Festival 2009, Bard College, August 21

“Cézanne’s Expressionism” Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 27

“Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life” University of Pennsylvania, Department of Romance Languages, February 12

2008

“Manet’ s Street Philosophy” World-Making and World Art-conference, organized by Whitney Davis, Arts Research Center, UC Berkeley, May 10

2007

“Wilhelm Leibl in Paris: International Realism During the Late Second Empire” American Artists in Munich: Artistic Migration and Cultural Exchange Processes– conference, Munich Research Group “Forschungen zur Künstlerausbildung” & Terra Foundation of American Art, Munich, October 10

2006

“A Place for Cézanne’s Early Work in the Modern Canon” European Science Foundation Symposium The Art Historical Canon and its Function, Universität Hamburg, Warburg Haus, October 6

“The Distance Traveled: Cézanne, War and Mass Culture (1870-71)” Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Cézanne and Provence, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 6

“The Distance Traveled: Cézanne, War and Mass Culture (1870-71)” Heroism and Reportage-symposium, organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art, the Dulwich Picture Gallery, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, London, April 11

“Cézanne’s Manet, or the Anti-Painting of Modern Life” Pennsylvania State University, February 9

2005

“Wagner, Pessimism and the Evolution of the Senses in Burne-Jones’s Laus Veneris” Victorian Visual Culture Studies Group, Yale University, April 28

“Cézanne, a Thoroughly Modern Manet” Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, March 23

2004

“The Emperor’ s Last Clothes: Cézanne, Fashion and l’année terrible” Works-in-Progress Series, Department of Art History, Yale University, November 30

Other Talks and Presentations

“Manet’s Fifer and Hereditary Power” Manet: Then and Now conference, Institute of Contemporary Art and Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2014

“Monet/Painting/Time” University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art, colloquium-series, February 7, 2014

“Pissarro, Impressionism, Feminism” Gender and Sexuality Works in Progress Seminar, University of Pennsylvania, October 25, 2013

“Der Impressionismus und die Industrialisierung der Zeit” Universität Hamburg, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, April 17, 2013

“Living on Manet’s Balcony, or The Right to Privacy,” Art History Lunchtime Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 20, 2013

“New Approaches to the Study of Impressionism” Lecture for the Friends of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, February 20

“Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time” College Art Association Conference, New York, February 14, 2013 (panel: Art and Product Placement, 1850-1918)

“Impressionism: Sensation and Translation” Gallery talk in conjunction with the exhibition California Impressionism, Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, October 3, 2012

“Impressionism, Standardizing Time” The Changing Experience of Time in the Long 19th Century-workshop, University of St. Andrews, May 19, 2012

“Wagner. Cézanne. Tannhäuser” University of Pennsylvania, Department of Music, colloquium-series, September 29, 2011 [published response by Neil Crimes, “Who’s Listening Anyway,” http://musicologyatpenn.wordpress.com/colloquia/fall-2012/dombrowski/student-response]

Speaker on panel about Musée d’Orsay’s Manet-exhibition, AHNCA & INHA, Paris, June 22, 2011

“The Cut and Shuffle: Form and Ethics in Cézanne’s Card Players” University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art, colloquium-series, April 15, 2011

“Édouard Manet: The New Gods and the Old” College Art Association Conference, New York, February 11, 2011 (panel: The Contemporary Querelle of Ancients and Moderns)

Invited panel respondent, conference in honor of Prof. Hollis Clayson, The Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University, October 23, 2010

“Realism in Translation: Painting Between Munich and Paris” Envisioning the Real: 19th-Century German Literature and Art and Their After-Effect– symposium, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, April 16, 2010

Invited participant in “Manet in the 1860s”-colloqui, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, May 18-20

“Modern Remains: On Manet’s Ragpickers” University of Pennsylvania, Department of History of Art, colloquium-series, November 14, 2008

“Cézanne’s Eternal Feminine and War-Time Popular Imagery” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association Conference, Miami, April 3, 2008 (panel: Ciphers and Cinder: Images of Women and Domesticity in the Visual Arts)

“Cézanne, Manet, and the Portraits of Zola” College Art Association Conference, Dallas, February 22, 2008 (panel: New Criticism and an Old Problem)

“Photo-Sculpture: The Industrialization of Portraiture in Second Empire Paris” Smith College, Liberal Arts Luncheon presentation, April 5, 2007

“No War in Sight: Impressionism and l’année terrible” Spaces of War: France and the Francophone World-conference, University of Minnesota, October 27, 2006

“The Emperor’s Last Clothes: Cézanne, Fashion and L’année terrible” The Long Nineteenth-Century, A Symposium, Dahesh Museum of Art, New York, March 5, 2005

“Cézanne, a Thoroughly Modern Manet” Shoptalk 123, CASVA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 24, 2005

“Cézanne, Fashion, War and Revolution” College Art Association Conference, Atlanta, February 18, 2005 (panel: Modernism in Magazines)

“Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life” Cleveland Graduate Symposium, Cleveland Museum of Art, April 16, 2004

“Cézanne, Murder and Modern Life” Princeton Graduate Art Symposium, Princeton University, March 26, 2004

“Wagner, Pessimism and the Evolution of the Senses in Burne-Jones’s Laus Veneris” AAH Annual Conference, London, April 11, 2004 (panel: Histories of the Eye)

“Memory, History and Instantaneity in Degas’s Place de la Concorde” Graduate Student Symposium in the History of Art, University of Virginia, November 15, 2003

“Memory, History and Instantaneity in Degas’s Place de la Concorde” College Art Association Conference, New York, February 20, 2003 (panel: New Directions in 19th-Century Scholarship)

“Untimely Classicism: Hans von Marées in Italy” Modern Art and the Mediterranean: Spaces, Bodies and Identities-conference, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, December 7, 2002

“Piano Politics: Cézanne’s Homage to Wagner’s Tannhäuser” Art History Graduate Symposium, Northwestern University, April 27, 2002

“Piano Politics: Cézanne’s Homage to Wagner’s Tannhäuser” Art History Graduate Symposium, University of Southern California, April 13, 2002

“Piano Politics: Cézanne’s Homage to Wagner’s Tannhäuser” Berkeley Symposium, University of California, March 16, 2002

“Unfinished: Hans von Marées and the Artistic Self” College Art Association Conference, Chicago, March 3, 2001 (panel: Future Directions in 19th- Century Art History)

“On the Cosmetics of Earthworks: Ornament, Surface, Object” The Matter of Earthworks: Vision, Site, Document-symposium, Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley, May 10, 2000

“David’s Vue Presumée du Jardin du Luxembourg (1794): Nature’s Freedom as Personal Freedom” Art History Symposium, Scripps College, Claremont, February 12, 2000

“Students’ Expectations toward the History of Art” German Art Historians’ Congress, University of Jena, March 18, 1999

“Frederic Lord Leighton’s Daedalus and Icarus (1869)” Kunstgeschichts-Studierenden-Konferenz, University of Heidelberg, November 21, 1998

Selected Conference & Panel Organization

Conference organizer: Manet: Then and Now, Sachs Programming, Institute of Contemporary Art and Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, April 11, 2014

Session chair: Visualizing Feminism, 40th Anniversary Conference, UPenn Gender, Women and Sexuality Studies Program, February 28, 2014

Session chair: The Image of Nineteenth-Century Money, College Art Association Conference, Chicago, February 2014

Workshop organizer: Meanings, Cultures, and Technologies of Color, c. 1900, Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, February 28, 2013

Session co-chair: Rules and Regulations of Avant-Garde Art (1848-1914), 37th Annual Nineteenth-Century Studies Colloquium, Philadelphia, October 28, 2011

Conference co-organizer: Russia and the Global Cézanne Effect, 1900-1950, The Petr Konchalovsky Foundation, President’s Library and The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, March 26-28, 2010

Conference co-organizer: Is Paris Still the Capital of the 19th-Century? The Painting of Modern Life Now (A Clark Symposium), The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, co-organized with Hollis Clayson, October 30-31, 2009
[reviewed by Sarah Betzer in Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art Newsletter 17, no. 1 (Spring 2010): 1-2]

Session chair: Art and the Memory of Revolution, 1789-1939, College Art Association Conference, Los Angeles, February 27-28, 2009

Conference co-organizer: Towards a Synaesthetic Modernity (1860-1910), at Wesleyan University, co-organized with Katherine Kuenzli, March 29, 2008

Audio/Video Presentations

Speaker on audio-guide “Masterworks,” The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, December 2011

Speaker on audio-guide “Paul Cézanne Thematic,” The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, January 2014

Exhibitions Curated

Part-time curatorial assistant, Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, exhibition: Joseph Binder: Wien–New York, 2001

Part-time curatorial assistant, Hamburger Kunsthalle, exhibition: Adolph Menzels Atelierwand (1872), 1999

Professional Service

University of Pennsylvania

2011-present : Art History Faculty Advisor to European Studies Minor

Spring 2011 : Member, SAS Teaching Awards Committee

2010-present : Lorraine Beitler Dreyfus Collection Advisory Committee, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

2010-present : Member of Advisory Board and Core Faculty of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies Program

2010-present : Faculty Affiliate, LGBT Center

2010-12 : Curriculum Committee, School of Arts and Sciences

2009-present : Member, Graduate Group, Department of Germanic Literatures and Languages

2009-12 : Undergraduate Matters Subcommittee, Department of the History of Art

2009-11 : Organizer, Departmental Colloquium Lecture Series in History of Art

Further Professional Service

Fall 2013 : External reviewer of applications for School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Spring 2013 : External Examiner for Honors Program (Modern Art), Swarthmore College

2013-15 : Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art, elected to board as member-at-large

2012-present : Société Cézanne, Aix-en-Provence, elected board member

2010-present : Exhibition previewer/reviewer for Artforum

2009-present : Consulting editor, The International Literary Quarterly

2009-present : Peer reviewer for Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, Getty Research Journal, Differences, The Art Bulletin, Art History, RIHA, Ashgate Press, Penn State University Press, SSHRC

2010-14 : Reviewer, International Dissertation Research Fellowship (IDRF), SSRC

2007-08 : Faculty Fellow, year-long workshop “Undergrounds & Underworlds,” Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Smith College

2004-07 : Historians of British Art Book Prize Committee

2000–01 : Lecture Committee, Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley

1997–98 : Graduate Student Representative, Courtauld Institute of Art, London

1994–97 : Student Representative, Kunstgeschichtliches Seminar, University of Hamburg

Courses Taught

ARTH 102 (002): Renaissance to Contemporary, Introduction to Western Art, 1400-Present, introductory lecture, co-taught with Profs. Christine Poggi, Larry Silver and Gwendolyn Dubois Shaw (Spring 2010 + Spring 2011 + Spring 2012 + Spring 2014)

ARTH 274/674 (284/684): Revolution to Realism: European Art 1770-1860, lecture (Fall 2011)

ARTH 275/675 (285/685): Impressionism, European Art, 1860-1900, lecture (Fall 2009 + Fall 2010)

ARTH 277/677: The Rise of Modernity: The Arts of the 19th Century, lecture, co-taught with Prof. David Brownlee (Fall 2013)

ARTH 301: Modernity in Haussmann’s Paris, undergraduate seminar (Fall 2009 + Spring 2012)

ARTH 585: Image and Theory of Revolution, pro-seminar in nineteenth-century art (Spring 2011)

ARTH 701: Graduate Methods in Art History (Fall 2011 + Fall 2013)

ARTH 775: Art and Time in 19th-Century Painting, graduate seminar in nineteenth-century art (Spring 2014)

ARTH 784: Cézanne and the Philosophies of Modernism, graduate seminar in nineteenth-century art (Fall 2010)

Other Affiliations

Articles publiés sur le site de la Société :

Année 2013

Cezanne, Paris, L’Année terrible et L’Éternel Féminin