Elizabeth Lee, Ph.D.

Wabash College • Department of Art 

P.O. Box 352 • Crawfordsville, IN 47933

E-mail: leee@wabash.edu  

Phone: 765/361-6241 • Fax: 765/361-6341

·  Education:

Ph.D., Art History, Indiana University, 2002.  Major area: American art.  Minor area:

cultural studies. Advisor: Sarah Burns.  Dissertation: “White Fantasies: Dirt, Desire and Art in Late Nineteenth-Century America.”

M.A., Art History, University of Minnesota, 1993.  Major area: modern art.  Minor area: cultural studies.  Advisor: Charles Haxthausen.  Master’s essay: “Constructions of Identity: Ivan Albright and America after World War I.”

B.A., Major: psychology, Wake Forest University, 1990.

·  Select teaching and research positions:

Byron K. Trippet Assistant Professor of Art, Wabash College, Fall 2003-present. 

Current courses: History of Western Art Foundations; Renaissance and Baroque Art; Nineteenth-Century Art; Twentieth-Century Art; Postmodern Art and Culture; Art Theory and Criticism; American Art; Gender and Sexuality in Modern American Art • All college course: Cultures and Traditions

Visiting Assistant Professor, Dickinson College, Joint Appointment in Department of Art and Art History and American Studies, 2002-2003; Visiting Instructor, Department of Art and Art History, 2000-2002. 

Art History courses: History of Western Art – Renaissance to Postmodernism;  American Art; Popular Culture in American Art; Twentieth-Century Art; The Body in Contemporary American Art; Dirt, Decay, Disgust: Issues of Filth in Visual Culture • American Studies course: Cultures of the United States; (three  courses above cross-listed with American Studies too) • Freshman Seminar:  Cyborgs, Monsters and Beauty Queens: The Body in Visual Culture

Instructor, Indiana University, History of Art, Fall 1998.  Taught Nineteenth-Century Art.

Associate Instructor, Indiana University, History of Art, 1995-1997. Taught weekly sections and otherwise assisted in Ancient to Medieval Art survey; Renaissance to Modern Art survey; Art Appreciation; The Body and Visual Culture: He-Men, Goddesses and Freaks.

Teaching Assistant, University of Minnesota, Art History, 1991-1993.  Assisted with Ancient to Modern Art survey; Origins of Modern Art; Islamic Art; Art of the Film; Cinema of Alfred Hitchcock.

Research Assistant, Dr. William Whitwell, Professor of American Art, Hollins

University, Spring 1991.  Worked on exhibition of Edward Beyer paintings.

Public Programs/Education Intern, Walters Art Museum, Summer 1990.  Conducted

research for children’s programs and events.  Led student groups through museum.

Education Intern, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Summer 1989. 

Researched material for traveling exhibition.  Worked with student groups.

·  Publications and current projects:

“Therapeutic Beauty: Abbott Thayer, Antimodernism, and the Fear of Disease,” American Art, 18:3, Fall 2004, 32-51.

“George Bellows,” Encyclopedia of the Midwest, The Ohio State University,

commissioned entry, in press.     

“Sex and the (Gilded-Age) City: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White at New York’s Madison Square Garden,” forthcoming.    

Ongoing revision of dissertation for publication as a book.

·  Fellowships, grants, awards:

            Faculty Development Award for Summer Research, Wabash College, Summer 2004.

            Travel Grant for Summer Research, Dickinson College, Summer 2002.

Residential Fellowship, Terra Foundation, Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny, France, Summer 2001.

Research Incentive Dissertation Year Fellowship, Indiana University, Research and the                University Graduate School, 1999-2000.

American Art Dissertation Research Award, Henry Luce Foundation, 1999-2000.

Louis Hawes Research Travel Award, Indiana University, History of Art, Summer                       1999; Summer 1998.

Recruitment Fellowship, Indiana University, History of Art, 1994-1995.

·  Academic conferences and public talks:

“Aesthetic Whitewash: Art as Purification in a New Hampshire Artists’s Colony,” to be presented at the Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference on “Impurities” at Louisiana State University, April 2005.

“Sex and the (Gilded-Age) City: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White at New York’s Madison Square Garden,” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference on “Serious Pleasures,” University of Iowa, April 2004; DePauw Modernism Workshop, April 2004; Modernist Studies Association, Vancouver, British Columbia, October 2004.

“The Critic Reviewed: The Role of Royal Cortissoz in the Making of Augustus Saint-Gaudens,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York City, February 2003.

“Art and the Rhetoric of Purification: Re-thinking High Culture in the Gilded Age,”

Southeastern College Art Conference, Mobile, Alabama, October 2002.

            “Painting at the Limit: A Bather, a Servant and Victorian Propriety in Late Nineteenth-

Century America,” Mid-Atlantic American Studies Association Meeting,

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March 2002.

“American Beauty, Painted On: Abbott Thayer, the Art of Concealment and the

Making of a Cultural Icon,” presented in different versions for Women’s Studies

Faculty Research Series at Dickinson College, November 2001; Jones Visual Art

Center, Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, April 2001; and Art Department,

Thomas More College, Crestview Hills, Kentucky, March 2000.

“George de Forest Brush: The Art of Indian Painting in the Pursuit of Cultural

‘Purity,’”Southwest/Texas Popular Culture/American Culture Association Regional

Meeting,  Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2000.

“The Arcadian Spectacle at Cornish: Performance, Identity and Art,” Northeast

Popular Culture/American Culture Association Conference, University of Maine,

Portland,  Maine, October 1999.

“Leisure in Impressionist Painting,” Gallery Talk at Indiana