Art History Faculty
Susan Douglas
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Assistant Professor, Art History
Johnston Hall, room 111
sdouglas@uoguelph.ca
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Writer, editor and curator Susan Jane Douglas, PhD, teaches contemporary art history and theory at the University of Guelph, where she specializes in the culture and art of contemporary Latin American artists. She has lectured on the subject of Latin American and conceptual art at The Art Gallery of Ontario and The Power Plant (Toronto), and at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, the Universidad de Cordoba, the Universidad de San Juan, and the Universidad de Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina).
Her curatorial projects include the first exhibition of Gustavo Romano=s work in Canada, and the first on-line international exhibition of blog-based work titled "MOBLOG:ENTER" (http://www.mobilelog.ca). She has published in Canadian Art, The University of Toronto Quarterly, Parachute, C magazine, nparadoxa, Public, and Art Papers. She is joint editor, with Bruce Barber, of an anthology titled, "Blood, Sweat, and Tears: Bodily Fluids in Art and Art History" (forthcoming). She is currently working on a book titled, "Global Raiders: Artists in a World Without Borders," a collection of essays directed to artists, art students and gallery goers on the widespread phenomenon of artists (including bloggers) who "raid" in a new, morally ambiguous territory where cultural material is plundered to serve subversive pleasures.
Susan Douglas was featured in the Argentine daily "La Maana de Cordoba" on June 4, 2005 in relation to her academic research.
Sally Hickson
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Associate Professor, Art History
Johnston Hall, room 118
shickson@uoguelph.ca
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Sally Hickson is Associate Professor of Renaissance art history at the University of Guelph as well as the Graduate Coordinator for the new MA in Art and Visual Culture. Her work explores courtly culture, secular imagery, patronage studies, the history of collections and constructions of gender and identity in early modern visual culture. In addition to working as a researcher in the field of architectural theory and Renaissance treatises from manuscript to printed book at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and teaching Liberal Arts at Brock University, she has taught courses on Italian art, architecture and cultural history in Venice, Florence and Rome, and has given conference papers in Florence, Faenza, New York, Toronto, the University of Cambridge and many other cities. She has been the recipient of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Grant for PhD studies (1997-2001), a Bader Research Fellowship in Art History (1998-1999), and the H.P. Krauss Fellowship in early books and manuscripts at the Beinecke Library at Yale University (2009). She is currently working on serialized portrait images of beautiful women in the context of Renaissance domestic decor and architectural space, and on Duke Federico II Gonzaga as prince and patron of Mantua. She has contributed articles to the journals Arte Lombarda, Civilt Mantovana, Art History, Renaissance & Reformation and to the anthology Isabella d'Este, la Primadonna del Rinascimento. Two books: Woman, Art and Architectural Patroncage in Renaissance Mantua: Matrons, Mystics and Monasteries, and an anthology, co-edited with Dr. Sharon Gregory, called Inganno -- The Art of Deception; will be released by Ashgate Press in 2012. In 2010, Sally was elected President of the Universities Art Association of Canada/L'Association des Arts des Universites du Canada (UAAC/AAUC).
Dominic Marner
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Associate Professor, Art History
Johnston Hall, room 121
dmarner@uoguelph.ca
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Dominic Marner is Assistant Professor of Medieval Art and Architecture. His fields of study include Medieval European art and architecture, Museum Studies, Visual literacy and Colonialism and art. After having completed his Ph.D. in the School of World Art Studies at the University of East Anglia, UK he went on to teaching positions at the University of Edinburgh and University College Dublin. He held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of East Anglia, Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge. He has received grants and fellowships from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, the Getty Trust and the British Academy. Professor Marner published his book on St Cuthbert in 2000 and is presently working on a book on the scriptorium at Durham in the late-12th century. His other publications span medieval art while his most recent (2006) deal with the National Portrait Gallery in Kenya: "Joy Adamson, the Peoples of Kenya and the Desire for Eden" and museum publications from around the world: "Museum Publications: history, bibliography, iconography".