Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Anat Gilboa

Education

2003 Ph.D. Art History Department of Art History, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Dissertation: Images of the Feminine in Rembrandt’s Work

1989 M.A. Art History Department of Art History, University, Thesis: Musical Themes in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Paintings 1982 B.A. Double major in Art History and Literature Double Major in Art History and Literature, the University of Haifa, Israel Departments of Art History and Department of Hebrew and Comparative Literature

Professional Appointments

2019-Current Academic Director, The German Project, Ben-Gurion University,

3-7/2019 Kurt-David-Brühl Gastprofessor Sommersemester, University of Graz, Austria

2014-2017 Visiting Lecturer, UCLA, Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Courses: Israeli contemporary cinema; Identity, race, protest and hope in Israeli visual culture

2013-14 Schusterman/AICE Visiting Israeli Professorship Fellowship, University of Nebraska-Omaha, The Schwalb Center for Israel and Jewish Studies Courses: Baroque art in Europe; Identity and Israeli visual culture and film; Gender, sexuality and otherness in Israeli visual culture; Multiculturalism: Israeli identity in visual culture; Curating an art exhibition entitled ‘My Heart is in the East and I am in the Farthest West’

2013 Visiting Lecturer, UCLA, Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Courses: Gender in Israeli visual culture; Changing the narrative: identity, protest and hope in Israeli visual culture

2009-13 Research: Evolution of Jewish pictorial tradition from the Early Modern period to contemporary Israel; pictorial representation of ideas from the 17th-Century Dutch Republic to the American Revolution. Institutions: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC; Rijksprentenkabinet Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2008-9 Visiting Assistant Professor, Salem State University, Art and Design Department Courses: art history survey courses (from Antiquity through Postmodernism); gender in art; foundation courses 2007-8 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Washington College Courses: Renaissance and Baroque art; art history survey courses (from Antiquity through Postmodernism); Interdisciplinary course on Jewish and Israeli culture and art

2005-6 Visiting Lecturer, Welch School of Art and Design, Georgia State University Courses: Italian Renaissance art, Renaissance art in northern Europe; Italian Baroque art; art history survey courses (from Renaissance through Postmodernism)

2004-5 Visiting Professor, Department of Art History, Oregon State University Courses: Renaissance and Baroque art

2003-4 Adjunct Professor, Department of Art, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada Courses: Northern Baroque art Israel

1991-5 Lecturer, Department of art history, University of Haifa, Israel Courses: Northern Renaissance and Baroque art

1989-90 Lecturer, Department of Art History, University of Haifa, Israel Courses: Northern Renaissance and Baroque art Books

2014 My Heart is in the East and I am in the Farthest West, Exhibition Catalogue, (The Schwalb Center at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, 2014), (ISBN: 978-0-615- 966717). 2003 Images of the Feminine in Rembrandt’s Work, Delft: Eburon Academic Publishers, Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 2003) (ISBN: 90-5166-954-2). Chapters & Articles

2009 ‘Symbolism and the Interaction of the Real and the Ideal: Scenery in Early Modern Netherlandish Graphic Art,’ Symbolic Landscapes (ed. G. Backhaus and J. Murungi), (Berlin: Springer, 2009), 251-164.

2005 ‘The double-sided drawing of Susanna by Lodewijk Toeput,’ Album Amicorum: Papieren betrekkingen. Zevenentwintig brieven uit de vroegmoderne tijd (Ed. P.G. Hoftijzer, O.S. Lankhorst and H.J.M. Nellen), (Nijmegen: Vantilt Publishers, 2005), 45-49. 2005 ‘Gender in the Visual Arts,’ New Dictionary of the History of Ideas, vol. 3, (Ed. M. Cline Horowitz), (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2005), 876-882. The dictionary was awarded by the American Library Association as an outstanding reference source, by the Reference and User Service Association as the best reference source 2005, by CHOICE as the outstanding academic books 2005, and as the Booklist Editors’ Choice Reference Titles for 2005).

2004 ‘Images of Athena in Early Modern Art: Masculinity versus Femininity,’ Raffia: Over Gender, Emancipatie en Feminisme Een kwartaaluitgave van Het Centrum voor Vrouwenstudies Universiteit Nijmegen, 16/1 (2004), 12-14.

2003 ‘Social Emancipation: Rembrandt’s Paintings of his Women Companions,’ Raffia:

Over Gender, Emancipatie en Feminisme Een kwartaaluitgave van Het Centrum voor Vrouwenstudies Universiteit Nijmegen, 15/3 (2003), 15-17.

Book Reviews

2011 Research proposal review, submitted to the Israel Science Foundation (ISF)

2006 Rembrandt Face to Face. Stephanie S. Dickey, (Indianapolis: Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2006). 75 pp. ISBN 0-936260-83-1 (pbk.),’ Sehepunkte, (2007), 1-2.

2005 The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Women’s Writing. Ed. by Carolyn Dinshaw and David Wallace, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003). 289 pp. ISBN 0-521-79188-X,’ in: Sixteenth-Century Journal, XXXVI/2, (2005), 513.

2005 The Kingly Crown/Keter Malkhut. Solomon ibn Gabirol. Trans. Bernard Lewis;

introduction and commentary by Andrew L. Gluck, (Notre Dame: University of

Notre Dame Press, 2003). 208 pp. ISBN 0-268-03303-X,’ in: Sixteenth-Century Journal, 36/I (2005), 305-6. Translation from the Dutch Els Klook, ‘Isabella Henriette Van Eeghen, A Biography, in: Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art (Summer 2012), vol. 4, Issue 2.

Conference Papers

2017 WJSA: Western Jewish Studies Association Conference, Claremont College, CA

‘The Drive to Reconstruct the Lost Past in a New Land – a Case Study’

2015 AIS: Association for Israel Studies Conference, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada ‘Ran Tal’s Documentary Film ‘Children of the Sun’: The Persistent of the Individual in a Collectivist Culture’

2015 Conney Conference of Jewish Arts, University of Southern California

‘The Jewish Mother: A Stereotype is Transformed in Israeli Visual culture’

2014 International Conference on Religion and Film, University of Nebraska-Omaha ‘The Israeli Film Black Bus: Documenting Loneliness, Love and Longing’

2014 RSA: The Renaissance Society of America Conference, NYC “Thou Shalt not Make unto Thee any Graven Image”: Portraying Rabbi Manasseh Ben Israel in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam’

2013 AIS: Association of Israel Studies Conference, UCLA ‘Bridging Universality and Locality in Eretz-Israel: Helmar Lerski’s Metamorphosis’

2013 Israel in 3D – The One Day University, UCLA ‘Myth and Model of the Sabra (native-born Israeli) in Israeli Visual Culture

2009 RSA: The Renaissance Society of America Conference, Los Angeles, CA ‘Childbed and the Ars Moriendi in Rembrandt's Graphic Works’

2006 International Academy of Linguistics, Behavioral and Social Sciences, CA ‘Rembrandt’s Drawing Nude Woman with a Snake Revisited’

2006 The Jewish Conference. Portland State University, Portland, OR ‘The Winged Hand: from Medieval Jewish Imagery to Christian Prints’

2005 Art and the Mediterranean Culture Conference. The University of Haifa ‘The Influence of Plato’s Greater Hippias and the Symposium on Peter Paul Rubens’ Figure of Venus Frigida’

2005 International Conference Meanings of Spaces and Places. Towson University ‘Realism and Allegory in Landscapes in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Graphic Art’

2004 University of Toronto ‘Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Vertumnus and Pomona in Early Modern Poetry and Art’

2004 RSA Conference, University of California, Berkeley ‘The Apple of Temptation and Feminine Identity in Works by Corneliszoon van Haarlem’

2004 The Fourteenth Biennial New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies.’ New College of Florida, Sarasota ‘The Recto and Verso of a Drawing by the Renaissance Artist Lodewijk Toeput’

2004 RSA: Renaissance Conference of Southern California. The Huntington Library ‘Andrea Alciato’s Emblematum Liber and Peter Paul Rubens’ Painting Venus Frigida’

2004 Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh ‘Pallas Athena in Early Modern Art: Commemorating Femininity and Masculinity’

2003 Aesthetics at the Crossroads. Harvard University ‘Rembrandt van Rijn’s Portrayals of his Companions’

2002 Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference. San Antonio ‘The Female Image in Rembrandt van Rijn’s Workshop’

1996 Women in the Arts and the Art of Women Conference. Tel Aviv University ‘Rembrandt van Rijn’s Depictions of the Nude’

1996 Conference: Memory and Oblivion. Amsterdam, The Netherlands ‘Aspects of Femininity in Rembrandt van Rijn’s Work’ Talks

2016 Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Studies, University of California, Berkeley

‘Ronit Elkabetz and the Struggle of Mizrahi Women for Equality’

2015 Jewish Studies Program, California State University, Fresno ‘Gender and Religion in Israeli Cinema’

2014 Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA th st ‘Transforming 20 -Century Culture into 21 -Century Idioms: Israeli Art and the Work of Marc Chagall’ 2014 Israel in 3D – The One Day University, UCLA Moderator: Entertainment and Arts in Israel Today 2014 Jewish Studies Program and the Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA ‘Imaging the Unimaginable: The Holocaust and Legacy in Israeli Visual Culture’ 2013 Jewish Community Center Omaha ‘The Celestial Promise to Jacob and Israel’ 2013 Jewish Community Center Omaha ‘The Zionist Photographer Helmar Lerski and the Portrayal of the Sabra’ 2013 The Kaneko Gallery, Omaha

2012 ‘Israel in Current Culture'

Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition: ‘Still Life: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,’ North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh

2011 Lecture in conjunction with the exhibition: ‘Rembrandt in America,’ North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC ‘Female Heroism and Gender Role in Renaissance and Baroque Art’

2011 The Triangle Seminar in Jewish Studies, National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC ‘Rembrandt’s Depictions of Female Figures from the Hebrew Bible’

2011 The Florence Melton Adult Mini-School, Project of the Hebrew University Jerusalem, Raleigh, NC ‘Rembrandt’s Depictions of Female Figures from the Hebrew Bible’

2011 Levine Jewish Community Center, Durham, NC ‘Identity, Protest, and Hope in Modern Israeli Photography’

2011 Levine Jewish Community Center, Durham, NC ‘Thou shalt not make unto thyself any graven image’ - The History of Jewish Art’

2006 Mittleman Jewish Community Center, Portland, OR ‘Rembrandt’s Depictions of Women from the Old Testament’ 2004 The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance, University of Toronto, Canada

‘Role portraits of Women by Rembrandt van Rijn’ Grants

2014-17 UCLA Office of Instructional Development Mini-Grant

6-7/2015 The Brandeis University Summer Institute for Israel Studies

Association of Israeli Studies Grant for Faculty Travel 2014-2015 UCLA Office of Instructional Development Mini-Grant

2013-2014 Schusterman/AICE Visiting Israeli Professorship

2004-6 University of Toronto Fellowship at the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies

1996 Utrecht University, The Netherlands: SPKO Scholarship (Stichting Postuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Onderzoek)

1993 The Gemäldegalerie and the Kupferstichkabinett Museum, Berlin, Germany: DAAD Scholarship (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst)

1988 Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden: travel grant

1987 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel: M.A. travel grant for research in New York libraries