Christina Smylitopoulos

Description

Dr. Christina Smylitopoulos (Professor, Art History) is an award-winning researcher and educator who examines eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art and visual culture, the pedagogical capacities of arts-based methodologies, and the material culture of heavy metal music. She was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Yale Centre for British Art and has been awarded grants and fellowships from, among others, SSHRC (IG; IDG; Connection); the Ontario Ministry of Science, Research, and Innovation; Lewis Walpole Library; Huntington Library; Swann Foundation for Caricature and Cartoon (Library of Congress); and the Houghton Library (Harvard). Professor Smylitopoulos was named Post-Secondary Art Educator of the Year (2023-24) by the Ontario Art Education Association and received the 2019 UGFA Distinguished Professor Award for Excellence in Teaching and the 2014 College of Arts Teaching Excellence Award. Her general teaching interests fall within the latter half of the early modern period, from the mid-seventeenth century to the end of the 1830s. This period spans the European Age of Exploration, the Enlightenment, as well as the Revolutionary and the Napoleonic Wars. In her lecture courses, students will explore the High Renaissance, the Baroque, the Rococo, Neoclassicism, and Romanticism and approaches to artistic production that may complicate stylistic categorizations.