Catherine Walsh
Art Department, Station 6400
University of Montevallo
Montevallo, AL 35115
Tel. 205-665-6400
email. [email protected]
Education
Ph.D., History of Art and Architecture, Boston University, May 2015
Advisor: Professor Jodi Cranston
Dissertation: “Renaissance Landscapes and the Figuration of Giambologna’s Appennino: An
Ecocritical Analysis”
Master of Arts, Art History, Boston University, May 2002
Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, English and Fine Arts, Vanderbilt University, May 2000
Teaching Experience
University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL
Assistant Professor, 2015Instructor (tenure-track), 2012-2015
Visiting Scholar, 2011-2012
Adjunct Instructor, 2010-2011
Courses taught:
Special Topics in Art History: Landscape History and/as Digital Art History, Spring 2016
Special Topics in Art History: Collections Management (ART 327), Spring 2014, Fall 2014
Special Topics in Art History: Garden Sculpture (ART 327), Spring 2013
Special Topics in Art History: Myths of the Artist (ART 327), Spring 2012
Directed Study (ART 408), Fall 2011, Spring 2012, Fall 2012, Fall 2014, Spring 2015, Fall 2015
History of Ancient Art (ART 301), Spring 2012, Spring 2014, Spring 2016
History of Medieval Art (ART 302), Fall 2012, Spring 2015
History of Renaissance Art (ART 402), Fall 2011, Spring 2013, Spring 2015
History of 17th- and 18th-century Art (ART 305), Fall 2011, Fall 2013, Fall 2015
History of Art I: Prehistoric to Medieval Art (ART 218), every semester
History of Art II: Renaissance to Contemporary Art (ART 219), Spring 2010, Fall 2011
Art Awareness, (ART 100), Fall 2010
University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL
Adjunct Instructor, 2010
Survey of Art History II (Renaissance – Modern) (ARH 204), Fall 2010
The Art Experience (ARH 101), Fall 2010
Boston University, Boston, MA
Instructor, Introduction to Art History II: Renaissance to Today (AH 112), Summer 2008; Summer 2007
Writing Fellow
Myths of the Artist from Apelles to Picasso (WR 150), Writing and research seminar, Spring 2008
The Reinvention of Myth in the Visual Culture of the Italian Renaissance (WR100), Writing
seminar, Fall 2007
Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Art History (AH 111, AH 112), 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA
Instructor, Early Renaissance Art in Italy (FA 231), Fall 2007
Suffolk University, Boston, MA
Adjunct Instructor
Women, Art, and Society (HUM 321-A and HUM 321-B), Spring 2008
Art of the Italian Renaissance (HUM 307-A), Summer 2007
Art of the Baroque and Rococo (HUM 308), Summer 2006
Emmanuel College, Boston, MA
Instructor, Survey of Western Art (ART 6201), Summer 2006
Auburn University, Auburn, AL
Lecturer, Auburn University Academy of Lifelong Learners (AUALL)
Italian Renaissance Masters, Fall 2005
The Art of Collecting: American Collectors of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Spring 2004
Museum Experience
Research Intern, Rivals in Renaissance Venice: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Art of Europe, Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA), August 2006 – October 2007
Curator of Exhibitions and Registrar, The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn University
(Auburn, AL), December 2002 – July 2005
Gallery Assistant, Boston University Art Gallery (Boston, MA), September 2001 – May 2002
Curatorial Intern, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, MA), May 2001 – August 2001
Gallery Intern, Sarratt Gallery at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, TN), August 1999 – May 2000
Grants, Fellowships, and Honors
Mellon Fellowship in the Digital Humanities, Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for
Italian Renaissance Studies, January – June, 2017
Montevallo Information Literacy Innovator Award, 2016
(in recognition of outstanding contributions to the QEP)
Research and Creative Projects Grant, University of Montevallo, 2015-2016
(grant to support Mapping Sculpture)
Participant, “Beyond the Digitized Slide Library,” Getty/UCLA Digital Art History Institute, July-August
2014
Illuminate Grant, University of Montevallo, 2014
The Critical Language of Art: Looking at Delacroix (visit to Birmingham Museum of Art for
about 50 Art Department students; focus on information literacy of visual art)
Investigator(s): Catherine Walsh, Michael Willett, Misty Bennett
Research and Creative Projects Grant, University of Montevallo, 2012-2013
(grant to research the topic “Landscapes in Renaissance Sculptures: The ‘Image Made by
Chance’ and the Engaged Beholder in Italian Gardens”)
Research and Creative Projects Grant, University of Montevallo, 2011-2012
(grant to research the topic “Botany and Sculpture in Medici Gardens” at the Hunt Institute for
Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh, PA)
Graduate Research Abroad Fellowship (GRAF), Boston University Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, 2010 calendar year
(fellowship for dissertation research in Florence, Italy)
Traveling Scholar, Boston University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Fall 2010
Graduate Writing Fellowship, Boston University Writing Center, 2007-2008
Teaching Fellowship, Boston University Art History, Department, 2005-2006, 2006-2007
Graduate Assistant Fellowship and scholarship, Boston University Art History Department, 2001-2002
Publications
Manuscripts in preparation:
“Figuring the Landscape: Giant Sculptures and Artistic Competition in Sixteenth-Century Italy”
“Ambivalent Appennino: The Damage of Nature at Pratolino”
“Making Digital Art History: Teaching Art Cataloguing through University Collections”
Digital map and website in development:
Mapping Sculpture
Book project:
The Nature of Renaissance Art: Ecologies of Substances and Subjects
Conferences and Papers
Co-Chair, “Visualizing the Early Modern World in Digital Space and Time,” Sixteenth-Century Society
Conference, Bruges, Belgium, August 2016
Co-Chair, “Monstrous Things,” two sessions, Renaissance Society of America Conference, Boston,
March 2016 (accepted)
Chair, “Mapping Diasporas,” Digitorium, University of Alabama Conference on the Digital Humanities,
March 2016
“Environmental Disruptions in Renaissance Sculpture: Mapping Origins and Destinations of Marble,
Stalactites, and other Materials,” Sixteenth-Century Society Conference, Vancouver, Canada, October
2015
Panelist, “What are the Digital Humanities?” Digital Humanities @ Boston University, October 2015
“Landscapes in the Figure: Generative Damage in Giambologna’s Appennino,” Renaissance Society of
America Conference, Berlin, Germany, March 2015
“Flowers, Fossils, and other Fragments as Marks of Time in Renaissance Sculptures,” Sixteenth Century
Society Conference, New Orleans, October 2014
“Landscapes in Renaissance Sculptures: The ‘Image Made by Chance’ and the Engaged Beholder in
Italian Gardens,” Faculty Research Symposium, University of Montevallo, March 2014
Chair, “Taking Art Apart,” Southeastern College Art Conference, Durham, NC, October 2012
“Displacement and Figuration in Giambologna’s Appennino,” University of British Columbia Art History
Graduate Symposium, Vancouver, Canada, March 2012
Chair, “Landscape and Human Culture,” Session II, Southeastern College Art Conference, Savannah, GA,
November 2011
“The Transformative Landscapes of Giambologna’s Appennino,” Southeastern College Art Conference,
Savannah, GA, November 2011
“The Renaissance Mountain Landscape and the ‘Image Made by Chance’ on Giambologna’s Appennino,”
UVA Graduate Student Symposium in Art History, March 2011
“Giambologna’s Appennino: Landscapes and (Dis)figuration,” Graduate Association of French and
Italian Studies (GAFIS) Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison, April 2010
“Displaced Ecologies and the Pastoral in Giambologna’s Appennino,” Southeastern College Art
Conference, Mobile, AL, October 2009
Member of abstract selection committee, Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History
of Art, 2001-2002, 2006-2010
Moderator, “Damage,” The 24th Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History
of Art, March 28-29, 2008, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Moderator, “Heist,” The 23rd Annual Boston University Graduate Student Symposium on the History of
Art, March 23-24, 2007, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Professional Service and Affiliations
Coordinator: Visual Resource Collection, University of Montevallo; Martha Allen Lecture Series, Art
Department, University of Montevallo
Concert and Lecture Committee Grant, University of Montevallo, 2014
Lecture, "Beyond the 'Shingle Factory': The Armory Show in the Popular Press after 1913,”
Dr. Melissa Renn, Senior Curatorial Associate, Harvard Art Museums, April 2014
Concert and Lecture Committee Grant, University of Montevallo, 2013
Lecture and panel discussion, “Photography and the Civil Rights Movement,” Jessica Dallow,
Ph.D., Jonathan Purvis, and Wilson Fallon, Ph.D., October 2013
Committee service at the University of Montevallo:
University -- Faculty Senate; University Writing Committee; Institutional Effectiveness Committee;
Faculty Salary Committee; ad hoc committee for studying faculty workload; ad hoc committee for
developing thematic program for the 2016-2017 “Freshman Experience”
College of Fine Arts -- Art History Major development committee; Arts Administration Minor
development committee
Art Department -- Public Relations committee; Library liaison
Search committees: for JCSMFA director position, October 2003 – May 2004; for JCSMFA K-12
education curator position, June - October 2003
Reviewer: Proceedings of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research, 2013
Member: College Art Association; Society of Architectural Historians, Landscape History Chapter;
Renaissance Society of America; Sixteenth-Century Society and Conference; Italian Art Society
Community Service
European Art Society, Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Invited lecture, “High Renaissance Italian Painting: Leonardo and Michelangelo,” Thompson High
School, Alabaster, Alabama, 9th grade world history classes, September 6, 2011
Languages
Spanish, Italian, French (basic reading), German (basic reading)