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Elisabeth Fraser Associate Professor - Art History Ph.D., Yale University 1993 FAH 272 |
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Elisabeth Fraser specializes in the history of art from the 18th to 20th centuries. Her current research interests include cultural exchange and contact; art and natural science in early modern/modern Europe; the cultural history of collecting and display; colonialism and the history of the museum.
She published Delacroix, Art and Patrimony in Postrevolutionary France at Cambridge University Press in 2004. Her book in progress is Mediterranean Encounters: Artists and Other Travelers in and around the Ottoman Empire, 1780-1850.
Other recent publicatons:
“‘Dressing Turks in the French Manner’: Mouradgea d’Ohsson’s Tableau générale de l’Empire Othoman,” in special issue of Ars Orientalis, “Art and Mobility: Globalism in the Eighteenth Century,” Nebahat Avcioglu and Barry Flood, eds. (forthcoming 2010)
“Images of Uncertainty: Delacroix, Morocco, and the Art of Nineteenth-Century Expansionism,” chapter in Mary Sheriff, ed., Cultural Contact and the Making of European Art since the Age of Exploration (Rand Endowed Lecture Series), University of North Carolina Press (forthcoming 2009).
“Books, Prints, and Travel: Reading in the Gaps of the Orientalist Archive,” Art History 31:3 (June 2008), pp. 342-67.
“La politique de la famille sous la Restauration: Les Massacres de Scio d’Eugène Delacroix,” chapter in Natalie Scholz and Christine Schröer, eds., Représentation et pouvoir: la politique symbolique (1789-1830) (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2007), pp. 175-84.
“A propos des sources de Delacroix; Dante et Virgile et l’autorité paternelle,” chapter in Sébastien Allard, ed., Paris 1820: L’Affirmation de la génération romantique (Bern: Peter Lang, 2005), pp. 101-12.
“Delacroix’s Sardanapalus: The Life and Death of the Royal Body,” French Historical Studies 26: 2 (Spring 2003), pp. 315-49.
"Uncivil Alliances: Delacroix, the Private Collector, and the Public," Oxford Art Journal 21:1 (Spring 1998), pp. 87-103.
Fellowships
Fraser is the recipient of numerous fellowships, including three grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (two year-long Fellowships and a Summer Stipend), and a Summer Fellowship from the American Association of University Women. She was a resident fellow at the Columbia University Institute for Scholars (Paris) in 2007-08. Fraser has also been awarded the Fredson Bower Prize of the Bibliographical Society (U.K.), a Gilbert Chinard Fellowship, and a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Fellowship for Recent Ph.D.s.
Teaching
Fraser's recent classes include Nineteenth-Century Art; Art, Travel, and Imperialism; Orientalism: Then and Now; Art and the “New Biography”; Art and Gender; Romanticism; and Theory of the French Avant-Garde. Her teaching emphasizes critical theory, the social history of culture, and interdisciplinary approaches. She has won two teaching awards from the University of South Florida: the Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award (1997) and an award from the Teaching Incentive Program in (1999). |