CURRICULUM VITAE JOANNE M. LUKITSH
History of Art Department Massachusetts College of Art 621 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 617-879-7583 [email protected]
Education Ph.D. Art History, University of Chicago, 1987 Area—Modern Art, Degree awarded with Honors
M.A. Art History, University of New Mexico, 1981 Area—History of Photography and the Graphic Arts
B.A. History, Wesleyan University, 1976 Major—History Honors in History, Departmental Honors in Art
Professional experience 1995--present: Department of the History of Art, Mass College of Art & Design Promoted to Associate Professor, 2001; to Professor, 2005
Publications: Anthology, essays, book chapters Co-edited with Juliet Hacking, Photography and the Arts: Essays on Nineteenth Century Practices and Debates (London: Bloomsbury, 2020.)
Co-edited with Jane D. Marsching, Sustainability Incubator Catalogue 2016 (Massachusetts College of Art and Design). 20p.
“ ’Like a Lionardo’: Cameron’s Photography and the Rossetti Brothers,” in The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: Photography and Painting in England 1848-1875 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art and Assignee Press, 2010).
“Place Above All Else: Laura McPhee’s River of No Return,” in River of No Return: Photographs by Laura McPhee. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 101-111.
“Thomas Woolner: Seeing Sculpture through Photography,” Henry Moore Institute Essays on Sculpture, No. 49 (2005).
“ ’A Record of City Life Without a Parallel:’ Alfred Stieglitz’s Photographs of New York City, 1892-1905.” Essay in anthology Looking High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture. Editor Patricia Johnston. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006), 210-27.
“Before 1864: Julia Cameron’s Early Work in Photography,” in Julia Margaret Cameron: The Collected Photographs. Editors Julian Cox and Colin Ford. (Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2003), p. 94-105. Book was a finalist in the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Photography Book Award Prize, 2004.
Phaidon 55: Julia Margaret Cameron. (London, Phaidon, 2001), reissued in new format in 2006.
“ ‘Simply Pictures of Peasants:’ Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photography in Sri Lanka, 1875-1879.” The Yale Journal of Criticism 9, number 2 (1996): 283-308.
“The Thackeray Album: Looking at Julia Margaret Cameron’s Gift to her Friend Annie Thackeray,” The Library Chronicle of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin 26 (Summer 1996): 33-61; issue republished on 1997 as Gendered Territory: Photographs of Women by Julia Margaret Cameron, Editor David Oliphant.
“Album Photographs on Museum Walls: The Mia Album,” in “For My Best Beloved Sister Mia:” An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron. Exhibition catalogue published by the University Art Museum, University of New Mexico (Albuquerque, 1994), p. 27-31.
“Reminders of Titian and Van Dyke: The Reader Reviews the Portrait Photographs of David Wilkie Wynfield, 1864,” Victorian Periodicals Review 24 (Summer, 1991): 56-63.
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“Julia Margaret Cameron and the ‘Ennoblement’ of Victorian Portraiture,” in Victorian Scandals: Representations of Gender and Class. Editor Kristine Ottensen Garrigan, with an afterward by Thais E. Morgan. (Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 1991), p. 207-34.
“Practicing Theories: An Interview with John Tagg.” Afterimage 15 (January, 1988): 6-10; reprinted in The Critical Image, Edited Carol Squires. (Seattle: Bay Press, 1989); reprinted in John Tagg. Grounds of Dispute: Art History, Cultural Politics and the Discursive Field, (Basingstoke, England, 1991).
“Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographic Illustrations to Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.” Arthurian Literature 7 (1987): 145-57. Reprinted in Arthurian Women: A Casebook Editor Thelma Finster. (Routledge: London, 2000).
Cameron: Her Work and Career. Exhibition catalogue published by the International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House. Funding for publication awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Exhibition toured to the Clark Institute of Art, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Cincinnati Art Museum, 1986-87. 102 pages
Recent public lectures and presentations "‘The Simplicity of the Past:’ The American and English Reception of Julia Margaret Cameron's Photographs, 1889- 1915," American Art and Photography from 1895 to 1925: Rethinking Pictorialism, conference at Princeton University, October 2017
Discussant, “Vital Expressions: Pictorialism and its Legacies,” session at the Annual Meetings of the College Art Association, NYC, February 2017
“Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographs of the Anglican Madonna,” lecture for Cameron at 200. Symposium at the Victoria and Albert Museum, January 2016
“The Image of a Woman Artist: Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photographs of Maria Spartali,” lecture at the Delaware Art Museum, January 2016
“ ‘Not only from the Life but to the Life:’ Julia Margaret Cameron and the Aesthetics of the Photographic Print,” Plenary address, Conference: Julia Margaret Cameron University of Portsmouth, July 2015
“How Julia Margaret Cameron became an 'old master’ of photography,” Conference: Rethinking Early Photography, University of Lincoln, June 2015
Co-chair with Juliet Hacking, “Art Photography and Its Markets,” session at the Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, Warwick, England, March 2011
Contributor, Challenging the Myths of Art History: A Symposium in Honor of Linda Seidel, Fordham University, February 2011
Presenter, Curatorial Study Day, The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: Photography and Painting in England 1848-1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. January 2011
Recent awards and grants 2017: Young Faculty Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation Faculty Grant
2007: Marilyn Pappas Faculty Fellowship, Massachusetts College of Art Foundation Faculty Grant
2003: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England, Research Fellowship Studio photographs of the sculpture of Thomas Woolner
2003: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, Research Support Grant Julia Margaret Cameron and Sir Coutts Lindsay: Photography and Art, 1857-1866
Book manuscripts in production
Julia Margaret Cameron: The Victorian Art of the Photography (1850s to now)
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