Faculty News Continued

Michele Greet’s book Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960 was published by Penn State University Press in November 2009. The Art Museum of the Americas and the Ecuadorain embassy hosted an elegant book launch featuring speeches by the ambassadors to Ecuador and plenty of wine and tapas. Since the book came out, Professor Greet has been invited to lecture on the topic at El Museo del Barrio in New York, Georgetown University, and Mason’s Fall for the Book Festival. Her second book, Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris Between the Wars, is well under way, and she hopes to make a research trip to Paris this summer. Last May, she was invited to speak on the new project at the Miami Art Museum. Also, related to this project are to articles she has written, both of which are currently under review: “Devouring Surrealism: Tarsila do Amaral’s Abaporu” and “César Moro’s Transnational Surrealism.” She presented her research on César Moro at the Surrealism and the Americas Conference at Rice University this past November. In February 2010, she spoke at the College Art Association annual conference in New York on the Brazilian artist Vincente do Rego Monteiro’s activities in Paris.
Christopher Gregg reports from Rome, where he is teaching this year at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies: “This is my third time as a faculty member for the ‘Centro,’ and the experience is just as wonderful as I remembered: site trips to the major museums and monuments in and around Rome, plus a week in Sicily and a week back around the Bay of Naples. A trip to Athens, Greece, for fall break gave me the chance to visit the new Akropolis museum and major sites and museums that I often teach at Mason but had not visited in many years. Last summer, I worked on two research projects: an annotated online bibliography on Pompeii for Oxford Press and a study of the material culture from the Roman Aqaba Project, an excavation in Jordan that I worked on in the late 1990s. In August, I codirected a program on the Bay of Naples in Italy titled “The Archaeology of Identity in Coastal Campania: How Greeks and Others Became Roman.” Carried out under the aegis of the Vergilian Society, the tour hit many of the major sites (Pompeii, Herulaneum, Capri) and a few of the less frequented but similarly wonderful archaeological areas (Saepinum, the villas of Boscoreal and Stabiae). The program received strong reviews from the participants and my codirector, Anne Haeckl of Kalamazoo College. I have already signed on to reprise the tour in summer 2012.”
Last spring, Carol Mattusch finished her annotated translations of Winckelmann’s two long published letters about Herculaneum and wrote an introduction. The book, Joann Joachim Winckelmann: Letter and Report: Antiquities, Archaeology, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Naples, will be published by the Getty Museum in 2011. She has also been editing papers from the January 2009 Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts symposium, “Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples,” held in conjunction with the exhibition she curated at the National Gallery of Art. She has written an introduction to the volume, which is scheduled to appear in 2012.
Ellen Todd presented a paper on John Sloan’s famous Triangle Fire memorial cartoon at a Stanford University symposium in the fall, followed shortly thereafter by a Thanksgiving week to Rome – her first since 1975. Favored by springlike weather and the absence of tourists, she savored the “new” Michelangelo of the Sistine ceiling and wandered in the Roman forum like an 18^th-century grand tour visitor. Over spring term, she stayed home to produce chapters of her longstanding project on the imagery surrounding the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.