Faculty
Elizabeth Lee
Assistant Professor of Art History
B.A., Wake Forest University, 1990; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1993; Ph.D., Indiana University, 2002.
leee@dickinson.edu
Professor Lee teaches courses in modern and contemporary art. Her research is focused on late nineteenth-century American art and visual culture. She is currently working on a book which addresses issues of filth and contamination in the Gilded-Age art world and has published and presented numerous conference papers on the topic. She has received research fellowships from the Terra Foundation, the Henry Luce Foundation, and the Indiana University Graduate School, in addition to recently being selected as an Alternate for a Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellowship. Before returning to Dickinson, where she previously taught as a visiting faculty, Professor Lee taught for three years at Wabash College.
Selected Recent Publications
"Therapeutic Beauty: Abbott Thayer , Antimodernism, and the Fear of Disease," American Art, 18:3, Fall 2004, 32-51.
Review of American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945, The SECAC Review, forthcoming (Winter 2006).
"George Bellows," Encyclopedia of the Midwest, The Ohio State University, forthcoming (expected Spring 2007).
"When Sailors Kiss: Picturing Male Intimacy in America after World War II," in preparation for review at Genders.
"Sex and the Gilded-Age City: Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White at Madison Square Garden," in progress.
Academic Conference Papers
"The Collector as Modernist Subject: Charles Lang Freer and American Art in the Gilded Age," Modernism Workshop, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, September 2005.
"Aesthetic Whitewash: Art as Purification in a New Hampshire Artist's Colony," Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference on "Impurities," 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 Americ," 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.