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JENNIFER JANE MARSHALLCURRICULUM VITAEDepartment of Art History, University of Minnesota

338 Heller Hall, Minneapolis, MN 55455

[email protected]

612-625-7120

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 CONCENTRATIONArt 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

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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 “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).

Fall 2009Review 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):105-

107.

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 theMuseum 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

SERVICEDepartment:

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”


2009-2010 Member of the Chair’s Advisory Committee


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 forlocal 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 ArtThe Minnesota Association of Museums

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