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Scott Budzynski

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • M.A., art history, State University of New York at Stony Brook
  • B.A., art history, Aquinas College

Credentials

  • Professor, art history, 2012–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Visiting assistant professor, art history, 2008–2011
    Associate member, graduate center for the study of culture, 2008–2012
    Research assistant, German Research Foundation, 2006–2008, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
  • Adjunct lecturer, art history, 2007–2009, The Philipps University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
  • Adjunct lecturer, art history, 2006–2008, Braunschweig University of Art, Braunschweig, Germany
  • Adjunct lecturer, psychology, 2002–2006, Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences, Magdeburg, Germany
  • Gallery assistant, 2002, Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany
  • Gallery assistant, 2000, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY
  • Teaching assistant, art history, 1998–2000, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY
  • Assistant director, 1998–1999, AU base art space

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Dean's award for Teaching Excellence, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2016–2017
  • Presidential Fellowship for Faculty Development, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2015
  • DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) Fellowship for Dissertation Research, University of Arts, Berlin, Germany, 2000–2002
  • Graduate Student Organization Award for Senate Excellence, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997
  • Graduate Student Organization Award for Service, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1997
  • Outstanding Senior Award for Academic Excellence in Art History, Aquinas College, 1995
  • Spectrum Fellowship, Aquinas College, 1990–1995

Organizations

  • American Association of Italian Studies
  • Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana
  • College Art Association
  • European Architectural History Network
  • Neuer Kunstverein GieBen

Publications and presentations

Exhibitions

  • Why Can’t I Be You?, Galerie Paula Bottcher, Berlin, 2003.

Books

  • Self-Representation in German Art: Culture and the Subject of Narcissism in Images of the Self. Saarbrucken: VDM Verlag, 2008.

Public articles

  • "Pier Paolo Pasolini’s La Nebbiosa: Teddy Boys and the Economic Miracle in Milan." In Pier Paolo Pasolini, Framed and Unframed: A Thinker for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Luca Peretti and Karen T. Raizen. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, 111–128.
  • "The Spatialization of Avant-Garde Consciousness: Antonio Sant'Elia's Città Nuova and the Experience of Modernity in Italy," in 1914. Guerre et avant–gardes/War and the Avant–Gardes, ed. Marine Branland, Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2016, 39–46.
  • "Modes of Spatial Exploration in Berlin: Collaborating with Knut Eckstein on Subverting the City," in "Places and non Places," ed. Pedro Soares Neves and Daniela V. de Freitas Simões, special issue, Street Art & Urban Creativity Scientific Journal 1, no. 2, 2015: 89–98.
  • "Remembering the Future in Subconscious Society: A Conversation with Rosa Barba," Artpulse, Vol. 6, No. 22 (2015): 46–49.
  • "Meaning and Vision in Looking to the Future: The Skyscraper in Milan," in "ICON," ed. RRC Studio Architetti, special issue, STUDIO Architecture and Urbanism Magazine, no.3, 2012: 110–117.
  • "Re-Imagining the City: Urban Objects and Amnesia in post-World War II Construction," in Die soziokulturelle (De-)Konstruktion des Vergessens: Bruch und Kontinuität in den Gedächtnisrahmen um 1945 und 1989, ed. Nicoletta Diasio and Klaus Wieland, Bielefeld: Aisthesis-Verlag, 2012, 151–168.

Public lectures

  • "Evoking the Modern City: Object Relations and Urban Space" at the symposium "On the Fringe" at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, April 8, 2016.
  • "Narrative and Potential Space in Milan" at the symposium "Text and Context" at Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, April 24, 2015.
  • "The City as Transformative Object of the New" at the American Association of Italian Studies Conference at the University of Colorado Boulder, March 27, 2015.
  • "La Nebbiosa and the Miraculous City" at the conference "The Legacy of Pier Paolo Pasolini," Yale University, New Haven, CT, March 7, 2015.
  • "The Project of Expansion in the Modern Italian City" at the workshop "Hyper: Architecture and (Over)Value," at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Florence, Dec. 5, 2014.
  • "A New City for the Generation of the Avant-Garde" at the international colloquium "1914: Guerres et Avant-Gardes," at the Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris, Dec. 6, 2013.
  • "The Cinematic Highrise: Perspectives on Milan" on the panel "Images in Movement: Cinema, Identity and Urban Landscape" at the VI. Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana "Visible and Invisible: Perceiving the City Between Descriptions and Omissions" in Catania, Sicily, September 12, 2013.
  • "Living Space as Representation: Cultural Self and Memory in Constructing the New" on the panel "Anxious Dwelling/Postwar Spaces" at the annual Association of Art Historians conference, University of Glasgow, April 17, 2010.
  • "The City as House: Space and Identity in Casabella and Domus" at the Second Modernist Magazines Project conference “Modernism, Cultural Exchange and Transnationality”, University of Sussex, July 14 2009.