Faculty & Staff

Head of Art History & Art Conservation: Janice Helland

Graduate Program Chair: Una D'Elia
Undergraduate Program Chair: Katherine Romba

Jan Allen

Adjunct Professor

Acting Director, Agnes Etherington Art Centre 
Contemporary art with a concentration in Canadian art. Research areas include electronic media art, politically and socially engaged art, the exhibitionary complex and arts policy
(613)533 6000 x77052
jan.allen@queensu.ca

Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art     

PhD (Harvard University)

16th-18th century Southern and Central European arts and their international diffusion in Latin America and Asia; also the patronage of Catholic religious orders, notably the Society of Jesus (Jesuits); more recently the relationship between Rococo décor and spirituality in France, Central Europe, Iberia, and Latin America

(613) 533 6000 x77344
baileyg@queensu.ca

Alicia Boutilier

Adjunct Professor
Curator of Canadian Historical Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Canadian art history, particularly late 19^th and early 20^th centuries, and histories of Canadian art collecting. 

(613)533-6000 x77054 

alicia.boutilier@queensu.ca

Una D'Elia 

Graduate Chair, Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar 

Southern European Renaissance and Baroque painting, sculpture, and architecture, with a particular interest in the relationships between art and literature and the Counter Reformation
(613) 533 6000 x78140
deliau@queensu.ca 

David de Witt 

Adjunct Professor and Bader Curator of European Art

 Ph.D. (Queen's University) 
Dutch Art of the 17th century, in particular Rembrandt and history painting in Amsterdam; Italian art theory of the 16th century, and art and the Early Enlightenment in The Netherlands
(613)533-6000 x75100
david.dewitt@queensu.ca

Stephanie Dickey

Professor and Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art

Pierre du Prey

Janice Helland

Professor, Head of Art History & Art Conservation
Ph.D. (Victoria)
Late 19th-century British and Irish arts and crafts, textiles, gender issues, material culture, late 19th and early 20th-century dress and fashion, craft history
(613)533 6000 x75670
hellandj@queensu.ca

Cathleen Hoeniger 

Professor 
Ph.D. (Princeton)
Medieval and Renaissance Art in Italy, in particular: Raphael and the Reception of his Art; The History of Taste and Collecting in Europe, 1550-1830; and Art, Science and Medicine, 1000-1600, Europe and the Middle East
(613)533 6000 x77346
hoeniger@queensu.ca 

Lynda Jessup 

Professor 
Ph.D. (Toronto)
Visual cultural studies, specializing in Native North American and Canadian visual culture. Focusing on art exhibitions, museums and collecting; art historiography, art in tourism, and more recently, on the role of art exhibitions in advancing Canadian foreign policy and international cultural relations
(613)533 6000 x75339
lynda.jessup@queensu.ca 

Bruce Laughton 

Professor Emeritus 
Ph.D. (London)
French 19th Century and Modern British Art 19th and 20th Century British Art; 18th and 19th Century French Painting Current research is on Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966)
bl5@queensu.ca

Karen Lloyd

Bader Postdoctoral Fellow in Baroque Art

Ph.D. (Rutgers University)

Italian Baroque art and architecture; art patronage in the early modern period; papal politics, political theory, and visual languages of power; sacred art after the Counter Reformation; art theory and sacred imagery between Latin America and Italy; and 17th and 18th century Italian sculpture, especially the work of Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

(613)533-6000 x78543

karen.lloyd@queensu.ca

Susan Lord

Cross-Appointed Faculty,

Head of Department and Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media. 

Cinema and media arts; cosmopolitanism; new media, gendered spaces and the city; and Cuban cinema and visual culture.  She has undertaken curatorial projects of media arts, worked with artists groups and artist-run centres for over 20 years.

(613)533 6000 x77019

lords@queensu.ca

David McTavish

Allison Morehead 

Assistant Professor 
Ph.D. (Chicago)
French, Scandinavian, and German art of the 19th and early 20th centuries, history of museums and 
collecting, modern printmaking, intersections 
between art and science, critical theory, art historiography
(613)533 6000 x78804
morehead@queensu.ca

Matthew Reeve 

Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar 

FSA (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London) 
Ph.D. (Cambridge University)
Medieval Art and Architecture, Medievalism in Western Art, Artistic and cultural relationships between the East and West during the 
Crusades; Historiography and Theory of Art History
(613) 533 6000 x75247
reevem@queensu.ca

Clive Robertson 

Katherine Romba 

Undergraduate Chair, Assistant Professor 
Ph.D. (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU)
Modern architecture, modern art, critical theory,
anthropological theory
(613)533 6000 x74171
rombak@queensu.ca

Joan M. Schwartz 

Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar 
Ph.D. (Queen's University)
History of Photography; Nineteenth-Century Photography and the Geographical Imagination; Early Landscape / Travel Photography; Photography in Canada; The Management of Photographic Archives; Photographic Materiality and Meaning; The Photograph as Art/Fact Artifact
(613)533 6000 x75453
schwartz@queensu.ca

Allison Sherman

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow 

as90@queensu.ca

Ron Spronk 

Professor 
Ph.D. (Groningen)
Technical Art History, Early Netherlandish Painting
(613)533 6000 x78288
spronkr@queensu.ca

Pat Sullivan

Adjunct Professor 
Public Programs Officer, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

Museum education and public programming