AMELIA G. JONES Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture Department of Art History and Communication Studies McGill University 853 Sherbrooke Street West, Arts Building, room W285 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T6 CANADA email: [email protected], [email protected] EDUCATION: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES. Ph.D., Art History, June 1991. Specialty in modernism, contemporary art, film, and feminist theory; minor in critical theory. Dissertation: “The Fashion(ing) of Duchamp: Authorship, Gender, Postmodernism.” UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA, Philadelphia. M.A., Art History, 1987. Specialty in modern & contemporary art; history of photography. Thesis: “Man Ray's Photographic Nudes.” HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Cambridge. A.B., Magna Cum Laude in Art History, 1983. Honors thesis on American Impressionism. EMPLOYMENT: 2014 (August)- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles. Professor and Robert A. Day Chair in Fine Arts. Vice Dean of Critical Studies. 2010-2014 McGILL UNIVERSITY, Art History & Communication Studies (AHCS) Department. Professor and Grierson Chair in Visual Culture. 2010-2014 Graduate Program Director for Art History (2010-13) and for AHCS (2013ff). 2003-2010 UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, Art History & Visual Studies. Professor and Pilkington Chair. 2004-2006 Subject Head (Department Chair). 2007-2009 Postgraduate Coordinator (Graduate Program Director). 1991-2003 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, RIVERSIDE, Department of Art History. 1999ff: Professor of Twentieth-Century Art and Theory. 1993-2003 Graduate Program Director for Art History. 1990-1991 ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN, Pasadena. Instructor and Adviser. Designed and taught two graduate seminars: Contemporary Art; Feminism and Visual Practice. VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS: Fall 2014-Spring 2016 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, Core Residency Program, Visiting Professor. Amelia Jones c.v. 2014 2 April 2012 YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO, Department of Visual Arts Visiting Professor, Summer Institute. June 2009 MAINE COLLEGE OF ART, Honorary Visiting Professor. March 2008 TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY, FORT WORTH, Department of Art History, Green Chair for distinguished visiting professor. April 2006 MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON and GLASSEL SCHOOL OF ART, Core Residency Program, Seminar and artist crits. March 2004 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO, BOULDER, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Art History. February 2002 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS, visiting professor, Department of Art. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, and AWARDS: Tourisme Montréal, $7500 CAD + $6000 CAD in-kind accommodations funds; grant for Trans-Montréal, PSi 2015 event. Office of Sponsored Research, McGill University, $1500 CAD travel grant for Performance Studies International conference in Stanford, California, 2013. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canadian government), Standard Research Grant 2010-2013, to pursue the project “Material Traces.” Total $108,000 CAD. Arts Council Grant (British government), to fund exhibition “Hershmanlandia,” Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, 2007 (assisted in preparing grant application and in obtaining the exhibition from Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; total £40,000). British Academy Conference Grant, to fund conference “Faith and Identity in Contemporary Visual Culture” (total £2000), November 2006. Centre for Interdisciplinary Study in the Arts (CIDRA), to fund “Faith and Identity in Contemporary Visual Culture,” University of Manchester, November 2006 (total £2000). Festival of Muslim Cultures, UK, to fund “Faith and Identity in Contemporary Visual Culture,” University of Manchester, 2006 (total £2000). Arts Council Grant (British government), to fund performances and workshops by Vaginal Davis in conjunction with “Theorising Queer Visualities,” international conference co- organised with Dr. Laura Doan at University of Manchester, April 2005 (total £8900). British Academy Conference Grant, to fund conference “Theorising Queer Visualities” (total £2000), April 2005. Amelia Jones c.v. 2014 3 University of Manchester/ School of Arts, Histories & Cultures and Art History & Visual Studies conference grants, 2004-5, to fund “Theorising Queer Visualities” (total £3000+). Ford Foundation/ Center for Ideas and Society Grant, 2002-2003. For international conference co-organized with Professor Jennifer Doyle, Professor Molly McGarry, on “Intersectional Feminisms,” Spring 2003 (approximately $2000). John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, individual research grant (taken in Jan-Dec 2002; approx. $35,000). National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers and Independent Scholars (US government), individual research grant, 2000 (approx. $24,000). California Arts Council, major art in schools grant to fund visiting artist for Community Magnet School, Los Angeles, 2000 (approx. $15,000). International Association of Art Critics, U.S. Division, 1995-96 best exhibition catalogue, place, for Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History. Graham Foundation, Fall 1995, group fellowship to complete the Web project WomEnhouse. American Council of Learned Societies, Postdoctoral Fellowship, September 1994-July 1995, individual fellowship to research and write book on body art. University of California, Riverside, Distinguished Humanist Achievement Award, 1993-94, for outstanding scholarship in the humanities (for the book Postmodernism and the En- Gendering of Marcel Duchamp). University of California Humanities Research Institute, conference grant, 1992-1994, for organization of conference “Photography and the Photographic,” UC Riverside. University of California, Riverside, Center for Ideas and Society, conference grant, 1992- 1994, for organization of conference “Photography and the Photographic.” University of California, Riverside, Affirmative Action Career Development Award, individual grant for research in Paris and New York in the spring term, 1993. EXHIBITIONS CURATED and PERFORMANCE EVENTS ORGANIZED: 2012-ongoing PERFORMANCE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL (PSi), Co-Director and Curator 2012-14; Consulting Curator 2014-15; responsible for original concept and planning for an event included in PSi’s 2015 annual conference, through a conference/festival entitled Trans-Montréal, September 2015. Amelia Jones c.v. 2014 4 2013 LEONARD AND ELLEN BINA ART GALLERY, CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY, Curator of exhibition “Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art,” February-April 2013. REVIEWED by Marie-Ève Charron in Le Devoir, March 30, 2013: http://www.ledevoir.com/culture/arts-visuels/374562/corps-en-action-matieres-sous-tension; by Reilley Bishop-Stall and Natalie Bussey in Passenger Art (April 5, 2013; http://passengerart.com/); by Joseph Henry in Esse (2013) http://www.esse.ca/fr/Compte- rendu/78/Montr%C3%A9al2. 2004-2005 UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, CORNERHOUSE ART GALLERY, WHITWORTH ART GALLERY, and CONTACT THEATRE, as part of “Theorising Queer Visualities” conference and events. Co-Organiser of performances by Vaginal Davis and performative presentations by Ron Athey & Julianna Snapper. Co-Organiser of related events, including playing originating role in “Queer” exhibition. 1993 -1996 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES, UCLA/ Armand Hammer Museum of Art. Curator of the exhibition “Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History,” displaying and reevaluating Chicago's piece and other feminist art within historical and theoretical contexts (April-August 1996). 1995 -1996 JACK AND MARILYN SWEENEY ART GALLERY, University of California, Riverside. Co-Curator, with Laura Meyer, of exhibition “Feminist Directions 1970/1996: Robin Mitchell, Mira Schor, Faith Wilding, Nancy Youdelman” (Spring 1996). 1992 -1994 CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHY and UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, University of California, Riverside. Curator of exhibition “Photography and the Photographic: Histories, Theories, Practices,” to run concurrently with conference (Fall 1994). 1991 -1992 UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY, University of California, Riverside. Curator of the exhibition “The Politics of Difference: Artists Explore Issues of Identity” (1992). EDITORIAL and ADVISORY POSITIONS: 2014 – present Artmargins (Lebanon) Editorial Board. 2013 – present Honorary Committee Member, La Centrale/Galerie Powerhouse, Feminist Art and Culture, Montréal. 2013 – present TDR (The Drama Review), Contributing Editor. 2012 – present Performance Studies International, member of advisory board for PSi 2015. 2012 – present Arts journal, member of Editorial Board (Basel, Switzerland). Amelia Jones c.v. 2014 5 2007 – present University of Manchester Press, Co-editor (with Marsha Meskimmon) of series “Rethinking Art’s Histories” (see: http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?series=4). 2011 – present Journal of Curatorial Studies, Member of editorial board. 2010 – present Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, Member of editorial board. 2010 – 2013 Women & Performance, Member of editorial board. 2004 – 2009 Liverpool University Press, Member of Editorial Committee, “Value: Art: Politics” series. 2006 – 2007 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, Member of International Advisory Board for The Body Politic: Performance and Social Change exhibition. 2001 – 2005 SIGNS: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Associate Editor. 1995 –1998 FRAME-WORK art journal, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies. Co-Editor. CONFERENCES and PANELS ORGANIZED: UNIVERSITIES ART ASSOCIATION OF CANADA, Concordia University,