JENNIFER JANE MARSHALL CURRICULUM VITAE Department of Art History, University of Minnesota 338 Heller Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455
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EDUCATION 1997-2005
UCLA, Department of Art History Major Field: American Art, Colonial-postwar Minor Field: Critical Theory Ph.D. Degree: June 2005 Dissertation: The Stuff of Modern Life: Materiality and Thingness in the Museum of Modern Art’s Machine Art Show, 1934 M.A. Degree: December 1999 Thesis: Our Folk: A Tradition of Modernism, A Taste for Modernity
1994-1997
University of Arizona B.A. Degree: May 1997, with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa
AREAS OF CONCENTRATION Art of the United States: Colonial to Postwar Interwar American Modernism Material Culture Studies
Sculpture History and Theory Museum History and Theory African-American Art History
EMPLOYMENT Jan 2009 – Present
Assistant Professor of North American Art, Department of Art History University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Courses Developed: “The Harlem Renaissance: Visual Arts and Representations” Freshman seminar; Lib Ed requirements: Writing Intensive & Cultural Diversity Theme ArtH 3577, “Photo Nation: Photography in America” Undergraduate survey course; Lib Ed requirements: Arts & Humanities Core ArtH 5565, “American Art in the Gilded Age: Or, An Exercise in History, Big & Small” Advanced undergraduate/ graduate research-intensive course ArtH 5575, “Boom/Bust: American Art from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression” Advanced undergraduate/ graduate research-intensive course ArtH 8520, “Thing Theory: Theories and Methodologies” Graduate seminar
2006-Dec 2008
Acting Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History Stanford University
Summer 2002 Summer 2003
Instructor, Department of Art History University of California, Los Angeles
PUBLICATIONS Books: In progress.
Subtraction: American Sculpture in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.
February 2012
Machine Art, 1934: Meaning, Materiality, Modernism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Journal Articles: In progress.
“Casting Doubts: The National Sculpture Society, 1929, and the Crisis of American Sculpture.”
Spring 2010
“Revisiting Materiality’s Material Conditions,” Wreck 3 (2010): online. http://www.ahva.ubc.ca/WreckArticlePdfs/27_032810_122040.pdf
Dec 2008
“In Form We Trust: Neoplatonism, the Gold Standard, and the Museum of Modern Art’s Machine Art Show,” Art Bulletin 90.4 (December 2008): 507-615.
Spring 2008
“Clean Cuts: Procter & Gamble’s Depression-Era Soap-Carving Contests,” Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture 42.1 (Spring 2008): 51-76.
2002
“Common Goods: American Folk Crafts as Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 1932-33,” Prospects: An Annual of American Cultural Studies 27 (2002): 447-465.
Exhibition Catalogs & Anthologies: Forthcoming
“The Rodinoclasts: Remaking Influence after Rodin,” in Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936 (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, in association with Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University).
2007
“Toward Phenomenology: A Material Culture Studies Approach to Landscape Theory,” Landscape Theory, eds. James Elkins and Rachel Ziady DeLue (London: Routledge, 2007).
Review Articles: Sept 2010
Fall 2009
“A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Funding Art in the Great Depression,” Review of: Victoria Grieve, The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture, University of Illinois Press, 2009, Reviews of American History (forthcoming, September 2010). Review of exhibition, “Noble Dreams & Simple Pleasures: American Masterworks from Minnesota Collections,” Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 2009, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 8.2 (forthcoming, Fall 2009).
June 2007
Book review: “Charles Brock, Charles Sheeler: Across Media,” caa.reviews (College Art Association, online content, 2007): http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/993
2003
Book review: “Celeste Connor, Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle, 1924-1934,” PART (Special Issue: “American Modernism,” 2003): http://dsc.gc.cuny.edu/part/part9/modernism/reviews/marsh.html
Winter 2002
“East of Harlem: Theresa Leininger-Miller, New Negro Artists in Paris: African American
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Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934,” Art Journal 61.4 (Winter 2002):105107. May 2001
Exhibit review: “‘Shifting Tides/ Corrientes Cambiante’: Cuban Photography Makes a Splash at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,” Capture Magazine (online content, 2001): no longer available.
INVITED LECTURES April 2011
“Clean Cuts: Procter & Gamble's Depression-Era Soap-Carving Contests” Public lecture, St. Olaf College, Arnold Flaten Lecture Series
December 2010 “Return from Bohemia: Return from Bohemia: American Scene Painting during the Great Depression” Public lecture, Minneapolis Institute of Arts March 2010
“Art Can’t Be Common, Right? Invited Panelist, Public pecha kucha-style event, Weisman Art Museum
June 2009
“Museums” Invited Panelist, Public Symposium, “What’s Modern about American Art, 1900-1930?” Sponsored by the Terra Foundation for American Art, jointly with the Milwaukee Art Museum and the New Britain Museum of American Art
Feb 2009
“The Material Conditions of Materiality: Toward a Social Art History of ‘the Thing’” Keynote Speaker, University of British Columbia, Art History, Visual Art and Theory 28th Annual Graduate Symposium, “Material Affinities: Intersections that Matter”
November 2008 “The Art of Parts: Machines And Beauty in the Great Depression, MOMA, 1934” Public lecture, UC Davis, Sponsored jointly by the UC Davis Design Program, Art and Art History Department and History Department
CONFERENCE PAPERS Feb 2010
Co-Chair of panel: “Theorizing Things” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
Nov 2006
“Intelligent Design: Functional Form in Alfred Barr’s Interwar Modernism” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Meeting, New York, NY
May 2004
“Material / Culture: Toward an Interpretation of Form as History” Yale University Symposium: “The New American Art History”
Feb 2004
“Form as Gold Standard: Aesthetic and Commercial Value in the Museum of Modern Art’s Machine Art Exhibition, 1934” College Art Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
Oct 2003
“Representing Americanization: The Museum of Modern Art’s Machine Art Exhibition, 1934” University of Texas, Austin Symposium: “America: Visions and Divisions”
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Oct 2000
“Is ‘Post-Feminism’ Post-Modern Feminism?” Co-Chair and Presenter for Workshop: “In the Academy and on the Street: What Could a "Post-Feminism" Be?” Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Conference
March 2000
“A Tradition of Modernism, A Taste for Modernity: Holger Cahill’s Display of Folk Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932-33” University of British Columbia, Vancouver Symposium: “Intersection: Object, Display, Audience”
April 2000
“Still Men: Masculinity, Ethnicity, and Glamour in George Hurrell’s Portraits of Ramon Novarro, 1929” University of Durham, England Symposium: “Phototextualities: Intersections of Photography and Narrative”
May 1999
“The Peaceable Kingdom: American Nationalism, Modernism, and Folk Art at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1932” UCLA Symposium: “ ‘Race,’ Nation, Aesthetics, and the Fabrication of Modernities”
March 1999
“Aesthetics and Athletics: Masculinity, Race, and the Sculptural Body in Richmond Barthé’s The Boxer” Great Lakes American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Kalamazoo, MI
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS 2010-12
University of Minnesota McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
Summer 2009
University of Minnesota Imagine Fund Grant, Arts & Humanities Faculty Award
2005-06
American Academy of Arts and Sciences Visiting Scholar Postdoctoral Fellowship
2004-05
Terra/American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in American Art
Spring 2004
Hagley Museum and Library Henry Belin du Pont Dissertation Fellow
2003-04
UCLA, Department of Art History Edward A. Dickson History of Art Fellowship
1998-2003
United States Department of Education Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (Deferred during AY 2000-2001 to assume teaching assistantship.)
Summer 2002
Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny Terra Foundation, Summer Resident Fellow
Summer 2001
School of Criticism and Theory, Cornell University Preferred Participant Fellowship
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2000-2001
UCLA Department of Art History Teaching Assistantship
1997-98
UCLA Graduate Division Entering Grant
MUSEUM COLLABORATIONS & EMPLOYMENT 2006-Present
Collaborator for exhibition, “Rodin and America: Influence and Adaptation, 1876-1936” Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Summer 1999
Harry and Yvonne Lenart Intern Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Department of Photography
1994-1997
Research Assistant, C. Leonard Pfeiffer Collection University of Arizona Museum of Art
SERVICE Department: 2009-Ongoing
Member of the Graduate Studies Committee Department of Art History, University of Minnesota
2009-2010
Member of Search Committee, “Art of the Pre-Modern Mediterranean World” Department of Art History, University of Minnesota
2009-2010
Member of the Chair’s Advisory Committee Department of Art History, University of Minnesota
2007-08
MFA Thesis Committee in Art Practice Stanford University, Department of Art and Art History
Spring 2007
Search Committee Member, Assistant Art Librarian Stanford University, Art and Architecture Library
University: Fall 2010
University of Minnesota, College of Continuing Education Instructor, Learning Life Course: “Regionalist Painters of the Great Depression”
Feb. 2010
Center for Writing, Panel Speaker “Grading Student Writing”
Spring 2009 – Present
American Studies Department, Affiliate Faculty Member
Spring 2009 – Present
Council on Liberal Education, Member of LE Committee
Professional: Spring 2011
Referee for Terra Summer Residency, Terra Foundation of American Art
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August 2010
Manuscript reviewer for American Quarterly
Public: Spring 2010
Metropolitan Regional Arts Council (MRAC) Jury member on grant review panel; responsible for awarding Minnesota state funding for local arts initiatives
Oct 2009
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Docent Training Lecture: “American Painting: 1920s and 30s”
Feb 2007
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University Docent Training Lecture: “Modernism”
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS College Art Association Association of Historians of American Art The Minnesota Association of Museums
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