Faculty

Administration

• Head of Art History and Art Conservation: Joan Schwartz
• Graduate Program Chair: Allison Morehead
• Undergraduate Program Chair: Katherine Romba

Faculty Members

• Bailey, Gauvin Alexander

  Professor and Bader Chair in Southern Baroque Art

  PhD (Harvard University)

  Renaissance to Neoclassical art and architecture in Europe (esp. Italy and France) and its global diffusion in Latin America, Africa, and Asia; also the patronage of Catholic religious orders (particularly the Jesuits); more recently architecture and urbanism in the French Atlantic Empire (North America, Caribbean, Guiana, Senegal).

  (613) 533 6000 x77344
  baileyg@queensu.ca

• D'Elia, Una

  Professor

  PhD (Harvard University)

  Italian Renaissance art, with a particular interest in how people touched works of art and treated them as if they were alive, the games people played in inventing and interpreting Renaissance art, and in the relationships among art, literature, and social life.

  (613) 533 6000 x78140
  deliau@queensu.ca

• Dickey, Stephanie

  (Sabbatical Leave, 2017-2018)

  Professor and Bader Chair in Northern Baroque Art

  Ph.D. (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

  Dutch and Flemish art of the seventeenth century, especially Rembrandt and his circle, portraiture, and the history of printmaking

  (613) 533 6000 x78774
  dickeys@queensu.ca

• du Prey, Pierre

  Professor Emeritus and Queen's Research Chair

  Ph.D. (Princeton)

  History of Architecture in the Classical Tradition in Europe and North America, Architectural Education, Architectural Books and Drawings

  pduprey@queensu.ca

• Helland, Janice

  Professor Emerita

  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
  hellandj@queensu.ca

• Hoeniger, Cathleen

  Professor

  Ph.D. (Princeton)

  Italian Art (Medieval and Renaissance); Cultural Heritage Preservation; War and Artistic Heritage; History of Science and Medicine (1000-1600)

  (613) 533 6000 x77346
  hoeniger@queensu.ca

• Jessup, Lynda

  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 

• Kennedy, Jen

  Assistant Professor

  Modern and contemporary art; Gender and Sexuality; Art and Popular Media; Art and Social Movements; Art and Activism; Feminist Art and Theory; Critical Theory; Cultural Studies; Performance Theory; Interdisciplinary research and methodologies; Critical and creative pedagogies; Feminist pedagogy.

  (613) 533 6000 x79066
  jk131@queensu.ca 

• Morehead, Allison

  Associate Professor and Graduate Chair 

  Ph.D. (Chicago)

  French, Scandinavian, and German art of the 19th and early 20th centuries; history of museums and collecting; the art of psychiatric patients; printmaking; intersections between art and science; critical theory; historiography

  (613) 533 6000 x78804
  morehead@queensu.ca

• Reeve, Matthew

  Associate Professor and Queen's National Scholar

  Ph.D. (Cambridge University)

  Medieval art, architecture, and aesthetics c. 1000-1500; Medievalism in Western art c. 1700 to the present, Canadian architecture, Historiography and theory of art history

  (613) 533 6000 x75247
  reevem@queensu.ca

• Romba, Katherine

  Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Chair

  Ph.D. (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU)

  Modern architecture, modern art, critical theory,
  anthropological theory

  (613) 533 6000 x74171
  rombak@queensu.ca

• Russell Corbett, Jane

  Assistant Professor

  PhD (Queen's University)

  Seventeenth to nineteenth-century European art, especially genre painting; hispanicism and modernism; artistic convention.

  (613) 533-6000 x77466
  jrc@queensu.ca

• Schwartz, Joan M.

  Professor and Head of Department

  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

• Spronk, Ron

  Professor

  Ph.D. (Groningen)

  Technical Art History, Early Netherlandish Painting

  (613) 533 6000 x78288
  spronkr@queensu.ca

• Vorano, Norman

  Assistant Professor and Queen's National Scholar

  Ph.D. (University of Rochester)

  Historic and modern indigenous arts of North America; Arctic arts and cultural history; visual and cultural studies; curatorial and museum studies; community based research; digital humanities

  (613) 533 6000 x77350
  norman.vorano@queensu.ca

Curatorial Adjuncts

• Allen, Jan

  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

• Boutilier, Alicia

  Curator of Canadian Historical Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

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

  (613) 533-6000 x77054
  alicia.boutilier@queensu.ca

• Coutre, Jacquelyn N.

  Bader Curator and Researcher of European Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

  Ph.D. (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)

  16th- and 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art, the artistic exchange between the Northern and Southern Netherlands, the mobility of European artists in the 16th and 17th centuries, Rembrandt and his circle

  (613) 533-6000 x75100
  jacquelyn.coutre@queensu.ca

• Kerr, Sunny

  Curator of Contemporary Art, Agnes Etherington Art Centre

  (613) 533 6000 x77055
  sunny.c.kerr@queensu.ca

Cross-Appointed Faculty

• Bevan, George

  Cross-appointed Assistant Professor
  Geography

  (613) 533 2745
  bevan@queensu.ca

• Lord, Susan

  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

• Robinson, Dylan

  Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts

  Contemporary Indigenous Art with a focus on public art, sound art, and text-based work; social arts practice; research-creation. DPhil. (University of Sussex)

  (613) 533 6000 x78144
  dylan.robinson@queensu.ca