Kerry Dean Carso
Professor Kerry Dean Carso’s review of Mary Kuhn’s book, "The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America," was published in the Journal of the Early Republic in Spring 2024 (volume 44, no. 1).
At the Studios of Key West in Key West, Florida, Carso spoke at a symposium, “‘All of Us Are Full of Stories’: Crafting Identity Across the Arts,” on March 29, 2024. Her paper was entitled “Narrative Gardens: Storytelling Through Architecture.”
Reva Wolf
Professor Reva Wolf's essay, "The Victim as Martyr: The Black Legend and Eighteenth-Century Representations of Inquisition Punishments, from Picart to Coustos to Goya" was recently published in the book The Black Legend of Spain and its Atlantic Empire in the Eighteenth Century: Constructing National Identities, edited by Catherine Jaffe and Karen Stolley (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2024). This interdisciplinary book examines how and why the idea that Spain was more cruel and intolerant than other European countries was manifested and debated in the 18th century. Learn more about the book on the Liverpool University Press website.
Wolf also spoke in a “project session” about the volume at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) annual meeting in Toronto in April 2024. At the ASECS conference, Reva additionally chaired a panel on the interconnections of culture and the globalization of banking in the eighteenth century. In May 2024, she participated in the Annual Bloomington Eighteenth-Century Studies Workshop at Indiana University. The theme of this year's workshop was the Magical Eighteenth Century and the work she contributed was about portraits of William St. Clair of Roslin as a freemason and the legends of Roslin Chapel.
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Elizabeth Lee
The Department of Art History welcomes its newest faculty member, Elizabeth Lee, a former postdoctoral faculty fellow at New York University.
According to her NYU faculty profile, Lee received her PhD in East Asian art history and archaeology, as well as her Master of Arts, from the NYU's Institute of Fine Arts; and her bachelor of arts degree from the University of Notre Dame. She has served as visiting research scholar at the Dunhuang Academy in Gansu, China; a curator to a private gallery in Seoul, South Korea; and as a volunteer research associate at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan.
Lee's NYU profile further states that she "uses geographic information system (GIS) technology to complement and expand upon traditional art historical methodologies and is actively engaged in digital humanities projects. Her research also addresses Buddhist sites in China and Japan, reflecting her interest in cross-cultural exchange through land and sea trade routes. In addition to medieval visual and material culture, she also works with modern and contemporary art of East Asia."
