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MaryClaire Pappas

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history, Indiana University
  • M.A., art history, Queens University
  • B.A., art history, University of Maryland

Credentials

Academic experience

  • Professor of art history, 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
  • Associate professor for art history, Fall 2017–Spring 2019, Indiana University
  • Teacher, galactic global infusion through arts workshop, May–July 2018, Balfour Pre-College Academy
  • Chair of graduate in Visual Culture Association social committee, Spring 2014–Winter 2015
    Chair, graduate in Visual Culture Association fundraising, Winter 2014–Winter 2015
    Teaching assistant for art history, Fall 2013–Spring 2015
    Graduate mentor, Fall 2013–Winter 2014, Queen’s University

Professional experience

  • Consultant, June 2018–June 2019, Peder Lund Gallery, Oslo
  • Curator and co-creative director, June 2018–June 2019, the NOISE project, Bloomington, IN
  • Equity officer, May 2014–April 2015, PSAC 101, Kingston, ON

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Society of Historians of Scandinavia Aurora Borealis Prize, The Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, 2022
  • Research Fellow, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 2021–22
  • Norwegian Marshall Fund, Norwegian-American Association, 2021–22
  • Dissertation Writing Grant, College of Arts and Sciences, Indiana University, 2021–22
  • Bicentennial Medal for Distinguished and Distinctive Service, Indiana University, 2020
  • Research Fellow, The American-Scandinavian Foundation, 2020–21
  • Language Acquisition Fund, Friends of Art, Indiana University, Summer 2020
  • Lois Roth Endowment, Swedish Project Support, 2020

Organizations

  • College Art Association, since 2015
  • Historians of German, Scandinavian, and Central European Art, since 2016
  • Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, since 2015
  • ICOM, International Council of Museums, since 2018
  • President of the art history association, Indiana University, July 2017–May 2019

Publications and presentations

Publications in peer-reviewed journals

  • "Volatile Femininity in Edvard Munch's Interior Bathing Scenes," Kunst og Kultur 101, no. 1-2 (2018): 4-18.

Publications in edited volumes, peer-reviewed

  • "Hemik S0rensen, the Gothic, and the art of El Greco" In Cut and Paste. El Greco and Nordic Modernisms, 1885-1945, edited by Anne Gregersen (Hatje Canze), 2022.
  • "Galleri Ny Konst: Networking Scandinavian, 2022.
  • “Expressionism," In Visual and Material Culture Exchange Across the Baltic Sea Region, 1772-1918, edited by Michelle Facos, Thor Mednick and Bart Pushaw (Routledge).

Publications in edited volumes, non-peer reviewed

  • "#picoftheday: Edvard Munch and the Selfie," In The Experimental Self. The Photography of Edvard Munch, edited by Heidi Bale Amundsen, 105-117. Oslo: the Munch Museum, 2020.

Articles in exhibition catalogues

  • "The Modern Sensorium and Isaac Griinewald's Expressionist Cityscapes," In Art and Theater: The Art of Isaac Grunewald edited by Karin Siden (Stockholm: Prins Eugens Waldermarsudde, 2022).

Art criticism (non-peer reviewed)

  • "Seeing Red," NOISE 1 (2017): 23-27.
  • Editor: NOISE 2 (2019).

Conferences and lecture experience

  • Conference Organizer: Nordic Nature: Art, Ecology, Landscape, hosted by KODE Art Museums a Composer Homes, Bergen, Norway (Received funding by Fritt Ord, Unifor Nansen Fond, the University of Bergen Department of Linguistics, Literature, and Esthetics, and The Greenhouse Project at the University of Stavanger), June 16-18, 2022–April 6-8, 2022.
  • Association for Art History's 48th Annual Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, Session Chair: Critical Explorations of Nordic Vitalism, June 6-8, 2022.
  • "Explaining Expressionism: Liljevalchs Konsthall and the 1918 Expressionist Exhibition," presented at Crossing Borders, Constructing Canons: 'Post Impressionism' in 'Britain, America and Beyond, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England, Digital Paper, June 10-11, 2021.
  • "Dangerous Affectation: Orientalism, Art Criticism, and Jean Heiberg's Nudes," presented at Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Annual Conference, Digital Paper, May 7, 2021.
  • Organizer, lecture series: Whose North?: Firing the Norwegian Canon, featuring speakers Dr. Temi Odumosu, Dr. Monica Grini, and Dr. Mathias Danbolt, via Zoom, funded and hosted by the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, March 23, April 7, 20, 2021.

Invited lectures and talks

  • "Book Launch: The Experimental Self. The Photography of Edvard Munch," presented at American Scandinavian Foundation, Digital, April 2, 2022.
  • "Embodied Sight Authenticity and Artistic Vision in Scandinavian Painting, 1910-1915," presented at University of Bergen, University of Bergen Art History Study Day, Bergen, Nov. 30, 2021.
  • "Imaging Modernity: Modem Art Between Norway and Sweden," presented at Norwegian Association for Art Historians Doctoral Student Afternoon, Digital, March 11, 2021.
  • "In the Name of Matisse: The Academie Matisse and the Historiography of Swedish and Norwegian art, 1908-1911," presented at Sodertorn University, Digital, Oct. 28, 2020.
  • "Dissertation Research Presentation: Imaging Modernity: Modem Art Between Norway and Sweden, 1908-1918," presented at Stockholm University, Digital, May 7, 2020.
  • "Edvard Munch's Bathing Women," presented at Thielska Galleriet, Stockholm, Sweden, Feb. 13, 2020.