Liberal Arts – RISD Academic Affairs

Re-Design | Damian White, Dean of Liberal Arts

Written on March 5, 2019. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

I began to seriously study environmental questions in 1991. I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the insights William Morris and André Gorz offered for thinking through what was then known as “the new politics of ecology.” I had some further vague notion...

Bergstein Cited as Strong Mentor

Written on May 15, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Mary Bergstein (Professor, History of Art + Visual Culture) was cited as a strong mentor for women in Andrianna Campbell’s profile in Women in the Arts in Frieze. Bergstein’s review of, Contemporary Master Drawings at Cade Tompkins Projects, was published...

Schiff at Cambridge University Conference

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Karen Schiff (Lecturer, History of Art + Visual Culture), presented a paper at Jesus College, Cambridge University, about the marbled leaf in the novel, Tristram Shandy. Her paper, Revitalizing Humanity through ‘Reading’ the Marbled Page, offered new...

Scanlan, Divine and Demonic

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Suzanne Scanlan (Lecturer, History of Art + Visual Culture) recently published her book, Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de’Specchi, 1400-1500: Religious Women and Art in 15th-Century Rome. It is published by Amsterdam University Press and...

Doran Delivers Lecture on Environmental Comics at Colby

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Thomas Doran (Assistant Professor, Literary Arts + Studies) gave a lecture on, Reading Comics in a Time of Environmental Crisis, at Colby College on April 25th, part of Colby College’s ongoing Environmental Studies Lecture Series. The talk explored...

Sittenfeld Photo Essay Featured in New York Times

Written on May 1, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Josephine Sittenfeld (Critic, History of Art + Visual Culture) was recently featured in the New York Times. Her new photo essay, Excavating My ’90s-Era Childhood Bedroom, shows images of the the items she encountered while clearing her childhood...

Event: Global Vorkurs, 04/26/18, 6:30PM, Metcalf Aud.

Written on April 23, 2018. Posted in Announcements + Updates, Liberal Arts.

Art History Research Colloquium Keynote Address Global Vorkurs: Reassembling the History of the Bauhaus from the Global South Joaquín Barriendos April 26, 2018, 6:30 PM, Metcalf Auditorium, RISD Museum In 2019, Germany will be celebrating the one...

David Jhave Johnston Events and RISD & BROWN

Written on April 17, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

RISD Liberal Arts (Research Collaboration and Event Grant) and RISD Computation Technology and Culture Concentration (CTC) are delighted to present two events by David Jhave Johnston, author of Aesthetic Animism: Digital Poetry’s Ontological...

Saito’s Published in Journal of the Society for Aesthetics

Written on April 3, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Yuriko Saito (Professor, History, Philosophy + the Social Sciences) had her essay, The Ethical Dimensions of Aesthetic Engagement, published in Vol 6, no 2 (2017) of Espes, the journal of the Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia. Her essay was published...

Maltz-Leca Book Published

Written on March 20, 2018. Posted in Liberal Arts.

Leora Maltz-Leca (Associate Professor, History of Art + Visual Culture) has had her book, Wiliam Kentridge: Process as Metaphor & Other Doubtful Enterprises, published by the University of California Press. Richard Shiff (Effie Marie Cain Regents...