Michelle Facos

Michelle Facos (born February 25, 1955 in Buffalo ) is an American art historian and professor of art history at Indiana University .

Life

Michelle Facos graduated at Kirkland (Hamilton) College of New York University in 1976 with a BA in art history and comparative literature from. In the following years she worked as a legal assistant in New York at Debevoise & Plimpton and White & Case . She then continued her PhD in art history at New York University under HW Janson , Robert Rosenblum , Gert Schiff and Kirk Varnedoe (her supervisor). Her dissertation entitled “ Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s ” was the first dissertation on Swedish painting written by an American person and was recognized by the exhibition “ Northern Light: Realism and Symbolism in Scandinavian Painting, 1880– 1910 ”at the Brooklyn Museum from 1982–83. The dissertation was published in 1989 and published in a revised book in 1998. In 1996 she was the only non-Scandinavian art historian to be invited to participate in the research project “ Cultural Processes in Nordic Forest Communities ” by Ingar Kaldal at the University of Trondheim. Her research area spans Scandinavian cultural history with a focus on Sweden. In 2009 she became a full professor at Indiana University. Since 2015 she has been Dean & Program Director of the GGE Summer School, a summer school for international high school students in the city of Greifswald .

Michelle Facos received a Fulbright grant in 1993 , a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in 1996 , from the American-Scandinavian Foundation in 2007 , from the Alfried Krupp Foundation in 2010 and from the Mercator Foundation in 2015 . She also received grants from the American Philosophical Society in 1994 and from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute in 2015 .

In 2006 she was visiting professor at the University of Hamburg , 2013 at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, 2014 at the University of Warsaw and in 2011/2012 and 2015 at the University of Greifswald . Since 2012 she has been editor-in-chief of the open access journal ARTS .

Works

• Symbolist Roots of Modern Art , edited with Thor J. Mednick (London: Ashgate, 2015), ISBN 147-2-41962-6
• An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art (London: Routledge, 2011), ISBN 041-5-78072-1
• Symbolist Art in Context (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2009), ISBN 052-0-25582-8
• Culture and National Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Europe , edited with Sharon Hirsh (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003).
• Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1998), ISBN 978-052-0-91813-9

Web links

• www.19thcenturyart-facos.com
• Literature by and about Michelle Facos in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b c} Indiana University: CV Michelle Facos . Retrieved July 1, 2016.
2. ^ Michelle Facos: Picturing the Nordic Forest in Scandinavian Schoolbooks . Retrieved July 1, 2016.
3. ^ GGE Summer School . Retrieved July 1, 2016.
4. ↑ Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald: Profile Michelle Facos ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 1, 2016.