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JAMES B. HARGROVE

Curriculum vitae

 

4 rue Saint Florentin
75001 Paris, France
E-mail: JBHargrove@gmail.com

 

EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
• Ph.D., European Art 1715-1914, 2005.
• Doctoral Thesis: “Serious Pleasures: Sensuality, Programmatic Display and Sculptural Aesthetics in France 1870-1900.” (Christine Poggi, Ann Kuttner, Susan Sidlauskas)

University of Leeds, School of History, Leeds LS29JT, England.
• Master of Arts: British History, October 1988.
• Thesis: “Nonconformity and Civic Progress in Leeds 1832-1851.”

New York University, Washington Square and University College, New York, NY.
• Bachelor of Arts: History Major, May 1986.

 

EMPLOYMENT / TEACHING EXPERIENCE

American University, Department of Art, Corciano, Italy (2004)
• Assistant Professor, Modern Art: Taught Modern Art and Italian Art in American University’s MFA and undergraduate study-abroad program in Umbria, Italy.

American University, Department of Art, Washington, DC (2003-2004)
• Assistant Professor, Modern European Art: 1-year Sabbatical Replacement position for Professor Norma Broude.

University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
• Lecturer: Impressionism: Art in France, 1860-1910, Autumn 2002.
• Lecturer: The Collector's Eye, Autumn 2001. Undergraduate museum studies seminar centered on the development of an exhibition of French prints for the Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, April 3-June3 2002.
• Lecturer: The City of Paris - Art, History and Urban Identity, Autumn 2001.
• Instructor: Writing About Looking, Freshman writing seminar, Autumn 1999-Spring 2001. Under the auspices of a Chimicles Fellowship for the Teaching of Writing, created and taught my own course on the study and practice of writing about the visual world with primary emphasis on a range of art historical media.
• Teaching Assistant: Impressionism (French Art from 1848 to 1910), Spring 1998.
• Teaching Assistant: The History of Art from 1450 to the Present, Spring 1997.
• Teaching Assistant: The History of Art from Prehistory to 1450, Autumn 1996.
• Teaching Assistant and Writing Fellow (Writing Across the University Program): History of Early Modern Architecture (1660-1850), Spring 1994.

 

PRESENTATIONS / PUBLIC TALKS

• “Contextualized Vision: Rodin and the Influence of the Past,”
New Studies on Rodin, Iris and Gerald B. Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, October 4-5, 2002.
• “A Culture of Display and the Face of Modern Paris,”
Lecture for the Special Programs division of the College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania, March 2, 2002.
• “Science, Religion and National Identity in French Art, 1871-1914,” Session Co-Chair.
An Historical Studies session presented at the College Art Association, 90th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, February 2002.
• “Renaissance Paradigm/Modernist Enterprise and the Mural Painting of Albert Besnard,”
Presented at “Le dix-neuvieme siècle ‘renaissant’/ Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century,” an international and interdisciplinary conference jointly organized by The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies and the Joseph Sable Centre for Nineteenth-Century French Studies, University of Toronto, 4-6 October 2001.
• Penn Humanities Forum, The Graduate Humanities Forum Inaugural Symposium: “Thinking With Style,”
Member organizing committee, session moderator, delivered Opening Remarks, April 21, 2001.
• “Programmatic Display and the Site/Sight of Sculpture in Fin-de-Siècle France,”
History of Art Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, April 14, 2000.
• “The Iconography of Feminine Sensation and French National Identity at the Petit Palais,”
Presented at the Frick Graduate Symposium in the History of Art, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, April 7, 2000.
• “The Dynamics of Vision and Representations of the Female Body in Fin-de-Siècle France.”
Presented at the French Cultural Studies Seminar, The French Institute for Culture and Technology, University of Pennsylvania, December 2, 1999.
• “Edgar Degas and the Body of Work,”
Sponsored by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania, April 4, 1998.
• “The Sculpture of August Rodin,” part of a set of talks for the exhibition "Michelangelo and Rodin: Genius Rediscovered," at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Sponsored by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the College of General Studies, University of Pennsylvania, May 3, 1997.
• “Scandalous Conduct: Carpeaux's La Danse and the Private Made Public at the Paris Opéra.”
Presented at the Seventh Annual Northwestern University Art History Graduate Symposium: Transgression in Art History, April 27, 1996.

 

PUBLICATIONS

• “Contextualized Vision: Rodin and the Influence of the Past,” Journal of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, 2005.

 

EXHIBITIONS

• “Leaving a Mark: The Art of the Print in 19th-Century France,” The Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, April 5 - June 3, 2002. Guest Curator along with students from my seminar “The Collector's Eye.”

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

• Carl Zigrosser Fellowship, Department of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Sept. 2002 – May 2003.
• Chemicles Fellowship for the Teaching of Writing, Sept. 1999 - May 2001.
• School of Arts and Sciences Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 1998 - June 1999.
• University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 1997 - May 1998.
• Department of the History of Art Summer Travel Grant, Summer 1997.

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Society of Architectural Historians, 1365 N. Astor Street, Chicago, IL 60610.
Took leave for one year to move the SAH to new headquarters in Chicago. Worked with the new executive director to keep all aspects of the organization functioning smoothly. Helped hire and train new staff. Helped organize the Annual Meeting (St. Louis, MO). Administered finances as well as the Buildings of the United States publication project. Administered grant applications to organizations including the Getty Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Helped develop fund-raising projects for the maintenance of the Society's offices in a major Frank Lloyd Wright house. Sept. 1995 - Aug. 1996.

Society of Architectural Historians, 1232 Pine Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107.
Worked part-time as Administrator of Member Services. Responsible for database management, company banking, advertising in the JSAH, and member needs. Helped organize the Annual Meeting (Seattle, WA). Jan. 1995 - Aug. 1995.

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
Part-time cataloging of the university art collection. Jan. 1995 - May 1995.

University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art, Philadelphia, PA.
Research Assistant to Dr. Renata Holod, Professor of Islamic Art. Carried out bibliographic and textual research for two articles and helped edit for publication Professor Holod's book on the architecture of mosques in the Twentieth Century. Autumn 1993.

Mise à jour du 28 avril 2006