Assistant Professor, Barnard
North American Art to 1914; feminist and
cultural theory
Ph.D., Stanford University, 1999
Elizabeth Hutchinson is interested in the relationship between the visual culture of a variety of North American groups and its viewers. Her work uses the tools of close visual analysis, feminist and postcolonial theory, and cultural history to bring out objects’ contributions to historical and current cultural debates. Key issues motivating her work include visuality and modernity, transculturation in the arts of the Americas, and comparative analyses of the visual culture of the United States and other colonial cultures. She has explored these topics in relationship to photography, painting, film, illustration, the built environment and the decorative arts.
Professor Hutchinson is finishing on a book about the "Indian Craze," a widespread interest in Native American art at the turn of the last century, which situates this American primitivist movement within the contemporary cultural, political and economic changes facing both Euro- and Native American people. She has recently held Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute and Winterthur. Professor Hutchinson's other research projects include a book about tourism and the visual culture of the American West and a series of articles on racial mixing in the sculpture and photography of the mid-nineteenth century. Articles related to these projects have appeared in Third Text, Exposure, The Art Bulletin, American Art, October, The History of Photography, the New-York Journal of American History and in the recent anthology Seeing High & Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture.
Professor Hutchinson teaching and mentoring has been recognized with a Gladys Brooks Junior Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from Barnard College and a Star Teaching Award from the Barnard Office of Disability Services. She was a guest of honor at the American Studies Association Graduate Student committee's "Breakfast with Champions" in 2005.
311 Barnard Hall and 927 Schermerhorn
Telephone: (212) 854-5340 or (212) 854-9132
E-mail: ehutchin@barnard.edu
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