Faculty News Continued

• Christopher Gregg gave several lectures for the Smithsonian Resident Associates program, including one on the Sanctuary of Apollo at Delphi and one on leisure in Pompeii, which was part of a daylong seminar organized by Richard Mason in concert with the Pompeii exhibition at the National Gallery of Art. He also gave a paper at the Archaeological Institute of America meeting in January on material from the Yasmina Necropolis excavation in Carthage, Tunisia, which he worked on throughout the 1990s. Publication of that material is currently underway. He will codirect the Vergilian Society’s Cumae III summer study tour on the Bay of Naples in August 2010, which will visit Pompeii and Herulaneum, Paestum, and many other sites. Anyone interested in more information should feel free to visit vergil.clarku.edu/cumae3.htm or contact Professor Gregg at cgregg@gmu.edu.
• Professor Carol Mattusch garnered international acclaim for her magnificent exhibition “Pompeii and the Roman Villa,” which ran from October through March at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The final visitor count was 351,987. Some familiar names among her 88 lectures, tours, and interviews were Laura Bush and Silvio Berlusconi; Lynne Cheney and her daughters; and Paul Richard, art critic for the Washington Post. Podcasts of her presentations are available at nga.gov. After its run at the National Gallery, the Pompeii show moved to the Los Angeles County Museum where it recently closed. Next, it travels to the Archaeological Museum in Mexico City and finally to the Puskin Museum in Moscow.
• Last year, Professor Margaret Richardson taught two new seminars on contemporary art in Africa and Asia. This summer, she finished a book manuscript on the contemporary Indian artist K. G. Subramanyan, whom she visited and interviewed in India last year. She made a trip to Italy, visiting Rome, Florence, and Venice, and attending the Venice Biennale. She gave a paper on Asian conceptual art at the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) last September in New Orleans. This year, she will cochair a session at SECAC in Mobile, Alabama: “In Pieces: Fragmentation in Contemporary Art.”
• Last year, Professor Ellen Todd entered the digital age of teaching last year with two new courses: one on visual culture in the Progressive Era and a graduate seminar on the Ashcan School. She also presented a paper at the College Art Association on the memorial to the unknown victims of the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire and participated in a symposium on artist George Tooker, presenting “Tooker’s Women.” She enjoyed a trip to New Mexico that included a visit to Georgia O’Keeffe’s Ghost Ranch, which gave her a new perspective on O’Keeffe’s New Mexico work. She is looking forward to research leave in spring 2010.