K.L.H. WELLS
Curriculum vitae, September 2014
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Department of Art History
3203 N. Downer Ave, Mitchell Hall, Room 151, Milwaukee WI 53211
[email protected], 917.359.4934 (mobile)
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
(beginning Fall 2014)
Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Craft, Department of Art History and Department
of Craft & Material Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University (Spring 2014)
EDUCATION
2014 Ph.D., History of Art, University of Southern California
Dissertation: Tapestry and Tableau: Revival, Reproduction, and the Marketing of
Modernism, Advisor: Nancy J. Troy
2009
M.A., History of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thesis: “The ‘merely imitative mood’: British Japonisme and Imperial Mimesis”
2005
B.A., History of Art, Barnard College, Columbia University
summa cum laude, Honors in the Major Field, Distinction on the Senior Thesis
PUBLICATIONS
Refereed Journal Articles
2014 “Rockefeller’s Guernica and the Collection of Modern Copies.” Journal of the
History of Collections. Forthcoming.
2013
“Serpentine Sideboards, Hogarth’s Analysis, and the Beautiful Self.” EighteenthCentury Studies 46, no. 3 (Spring 2013): 399-413.
2009
“Curating the Cultural Landscape: Chipstone House as Historical Property.”
The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum 2, no. 2 (2009): 177-194.
Catalogue Essays
2014 “Counter Text.” In Where Words Are Not Enough, VCU Craft & Material Studies
MFA Candidacy Exhibition, ArtSpace Gallery, Richmond, VA, 25 April-18 May
2014.
2013
“Artistes contre Liciers: La Renaissance de la Tapisserie Française.” In Decorum
(Paris: Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Skira Flammarion, 2013),
55-59.
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Reviews
2014 Decorum, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, 11 October 2013-9 February
2014. Journal of Modern Craft. Forthcoming.
Digital Humanities
2014 “Jaydan Moore and Olivia Valentine in Conversation with K.L.H. Wells,”
Journal of Modern Craft blog, posted 25 August 2014.
http://journalofmoderncraft.com/uncategorized/jaydan-moore-and-oliviavalentine-in-conversation-with-k-l-h-wells-2
2013
“Flânerie: Strolling Amongst Aestheticized Selves of the Romantic Period.”
Gallery Exhibit, Romantic Circles.
http://www.rc.umd.edu/gallery/exhibit/fl%C3%A2nerie- strolling-amongstaestheticized-selves-of-the-romantic-period
Manuscripts in Submission
“The ‘merely imitative mood’: British Japonisme and Imperial Mimesis.” Under revision
for Nineteenth Century Studies, 44 manuscript pages.
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, and AWARDS
2014 Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2014-2015, declined)
2013
University of Southern California (USC) Russell Endowed Dissertation
Fellowship (2013-2014, declined Spring 2014)
2012
Harmon Chadbourn Rorison Fellowship, Institut Français d’Amérique,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
2012
USC Department of Art History Graduate Travel Award (2012, 2013)
2011
Swiss National Science Foundation Research Fellowship, Kunsthistorisches
Institut, Universität Zürich, Switzerland (2011-2012)
2011
USC Graduate Student Government Travel Award (2011, 2013)
2010
USC Visual Studies Graduate Certificate Summer Funding (2010, 2011, 2013)
2010
USC College Conference Attendance Award (2010)
2009
USC Dornsife College Doctoral Fellowship (2009-2014, some years declined)
2007
James Watrous/Chipstone Fellowship in Material Culture, University of
Wisconsin-Madison (2007-2008)
2005
Phi Beta Kappa, Barnard College, Columbia University
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TALKS and CONFERENCES
Invited Talks
2014 “Transatlantic Tapestry: Postwar Art between Paris and New York,” University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee, April 2nd
2013
“Contemporary Tapestry: Globalization, Digitization, and the Value of Artistic
Labor,” Aktuelle Forschung zur Kunst der Neuzeit, Kunsthistorisches Institut,
Universität Zürich, Switzerland, October 16th
2012
“Tapestries and Tableaux in the Twentieth Century,” An Iconology of the Textile
in Art and Architecture: Review of a Project at the Art History Institute of the
University of Zurich, Bard Graduate Center, New York, NY, January 18th
2011
“Inventing the Tapestry Revival in Postwar France,” Aktuelle Forschung zur
Kunst der Neuzeit, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich, October 19th
2011
“The Tapestry of Modernism,” Aktuelle Forschung zur Kunst der Neuzeit,
Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Zürich, May 11th
Conference Panels Organized
2013 Tapestry and Reproduction, Co-Chair, College Art Association, New York, NY,
February 15th
Conference Papers Presented
2014 “How Paris Stole the Idea of Modern Tapestry,” Society for French Historical
Studies, Montreal, Canada, April 27th
2014
“The Logic of Revival and the Limits of Nostalgia,” Nostalgia: Representations
and Reconstructions of the Past, Student Session, Association of Art Historians,
London, UK, April 10th
2012
“Greenberg’s Tapestries: Revising Medium Specificity and Revisiting Its
Discontents,” Bay Area Graduate Symposium in Art History, Film, and Media
organized by Stanford University, San Francisco, CA, October 27th
2011
“The Work of Tapestry in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Material
Culture Conference: The Life of the Object, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
April 9th
2010
“Serpentine Sideboards, Hogarth’s Analysis, and the Beautiful Self,” Mid-Atlantic
American Studies Association, La Salle University, March 20th
2009
“Curating the Cultural Landscape: Chipstone House as Historical Property,”
Second International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, University of
Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, July 10th
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2009
“Mimicry and the Mikado: Japanese People-as-Exhibitions,” National Popular
Culture and American Culture Associations, New Orleans, LA, April 10th
Campus Talks
2014 “The Photographic Tapestry from Man Ray to Macuga,” Virginia Commonwealth
University, April 16th
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Assistant Professor)
Introduction to American Art (Fall 2014)
Virginia Commonwealth University (Instructor of Record)
History and Theory of Craft (Spring 2014)
Craft Since 1945 (Spring 2014)
University of Southern California (Teaching Assistant)
Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Contemporary Art (Spring 2013)
Arts of Asia: Antiquity to 1300 (Spring 2011)
Foundations of Western Art: Prehistory to 1400 (Fall 2010)
ADVISING
Masters Thesis Direction
Cortney Anderson (expected 2015)
Stacey Schmiesing (expected 2015)
RESEARCH and CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2013 University of Southern California, Department of Art History,
Research Assistant, Visual Culture of Asia
2010
Getty Research Institute, Deputy Director’s Office, Los Angeles, CA
Research Assistant, Pacific Standard Time (2010, 2011)
2009
Chipstone Foundation, Milwaukee, WI
Curatorial Intern, Remains exhibition at the Milwaukee Art Museum
2008
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Art History,
Project Assistant, Visual Resources Collection (2008-2009)
2008
Overture Center for the Arts, Madison, WI
Gallery Coordinator (2008-2009)
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2005
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Research Intern, Modern and Contemporary Curatorial Department (2005-2006)
2005
Sotheby’s New York, NY
Research Intern, Twentieth-Century Design Department (2005)
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
University of Southern California, Department of Art History
2013 Organizer and Moderator, “From Scholar to Author” faculty book panel
2012 Graduate Liaison to the Faculty Search Committee (2012-2013)
2010 Co-chair, Works-in-Progress Colloquium (2010, 2012)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Art History Grad Forum
2008 Co-chair, Graduate Research Colloquium (2008, 2009)
2008 Treasurer-Secretary (2008-2009)
2008 Co-chair, Art History Grad Forum Guest Lecture Series
LANGUAGES
French: Excellent reading, speaking, and writing knowledge
German: Proficient reading, speaking, and writing knowledge
AFFILIATIONS
Association of Historians of American Art
College Art Association
Society of Architectural Historians
Society for French Historical Studies
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