Faculty

Marni Kessler Associate Professor Nineteenth-century European Art email

SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT

Gender and Revolution: European Art 1789-1848
Modernisms: Manet-Cezanne
Survey of Western Art: Renaissance to Present
Women in Visual Culture in Late 19th-Century France (seminar)
Manet in Contexts (seminar)
Ingres/Degas: Surface/Text (seminar)
Constructing and Deconstructing 19th-Century Paris (seminar)
Art Histories: Theories and Methods
The Modern Portrait

EDUCATION

1996 Ph.D., History of Art, Yale University
1993 M.Phil., History of Art, Yale University
1991 M.A., History of Art, Yale University
1989 M.A., Art History, Williams College
1987 A.B., English, Vassar College

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Book:
Sheer Presence: The Veil in Manet's Paris (University of Minnesota Press, 2006)
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/K/kessler_sheer.html

Articles and Essays:
“Ocular Anxiety and the Pink Tea Cup: Edgar Degas’s Woman with Bandage,” Nineteenth-Century Art WorldWide, 5:2 (Fall 2006)
http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn_06/articles/kess.shtml

“Dusting the Surface: the Veil, the Bourgeoise, and the City Grid,” in The Invisible Flâneuse?: Gender, Public Space, and Visual Culture  in Nineteenth-Century Paris eds. Aruna d’Souza and Tom McDonough (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006) 49-64.      

“Filters and Pathologies: Caillebotte and Manet in Haussmann’s Paris,” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 27:3 (September 2005)245-268.

"Unmasking Manet's Morisot," Art Bulletin, vol. 81, no. 3 (Sept. 1999): 473-489.

"Restructuring Relationships: Berthe Morisot's Edma Series," Women's Art Journal, vol. 12, no. 1 (Spring-Summer, 1991):24-28.

"Fictional Conceits in Daniel Huntington's Portrait of Samuel F.B. Morse" in Picturing Power: The New York Chamber of Commerce, Portraiture, and its Uses (forthcoming, Columbia University Press)

"Photographic Interventions: Fedor Encke's J.P. Morgan" in Picturing Power: The New York Chamber of Commerce, Portraiture, and its Uses (forthcoming, Columbia University Press

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Fall 2007- Associate Professor, University of Kansas
2000- Assistant Professor, University of Kansas
2000, 1998-99 Visiting Assistant Professor, Wesleyan University
1998/99 Visiting Lecturer, Yale University
1996-97 Visiting Assistant Professor, Barnard College
1994-95 Instructor, Yale University

Seaver Lecturer, Humanities and Western Civilizations Department, University of Kansas, 2007
Outstanding Educator, Mortar Board Society, University of Kansas, 2005
Byron T. Schutz Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Kansas, May 2005
Mentor of the Year, Honorable Mention, University of Kansas, May 2003
Luther Gregg Sullivan Visiting Post-doctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University, 1999-2000
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, Wesleyan University, 1997-98

Helfand Fellowship, NY Academy of Medicine, 2007-2008
Millard Meiss Book Subvention Grant, College Art Association, 2006
Vice Chancellor for Research Book Subvention Grant, University of Kansas, 2006
Humanities Research Fellowship, Hall Center For the Humanities, Fall 2005
Wood Fellowship, Philadelphia College of Physicians and Surgeons 2005-2006
Hall Center for the Humanities Travel Grant, University of Kansas, Summer 2004
Getty Library Research Grant, 2003
General Research Fund Grant, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2003, 2002
New Faculty General Research Fund Grant, 2001