Susan M. Merriam

Assistant Professor of Art History

Bard College 2003-
Office: Fisher Annex 115
Phone: 845-758-7163
E-mail: merriam@bard.edu

EDUCATION
Harvard University
Ph.D. Department of History of Art and Architecture 2002

Dissertation:
“Icons After Iconoclasm: The Flemish Garland Picture, 1608-1700”

COURSES TAUGHT

First Year Seminar
Arth 102 Perspectives in Art History
Arth 211 Sightseeing: Vision and the Image in the Early Modern Period
Arth 232 Wild Visions: Picturing Nature in Early Modern Northern Europe
Arth 225 Contested Images and Iconoclastic Acts: A History of Image Destruction
Arth 277 The Dutch “Golden Age”
Arth 272 The European Baroque
Arth 284 Gender and the Visual Arts 1450-1700
Arth 289 Rights and the Image
Arth 286 El Greco to Goya
Arth 298 History of the Museum
Arth 385 Art Criticism and Methodology
Arth 356 Sightseeing: Theories of Vision in the Early Modern Period

SELECT CONFERENCE TALKS and PANELS

Panel co-organizer and co-chair, “Rights to Expression vs. Regimes of Power,” College Art Association, Los Angeles (February 2009); special session sponsored at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art.

“Images of the Eucharist and the Forty Hours Devotion,” Historians of Netherlandish Art-sponsored session at the Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles (March 2009)

“Iconoclasm in the Kunstkammer,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, St. Louis (October 2008)

“That 70's Aesthetic,” State University of New York, Purchase (Fall 2007)

“The Swindle: Jan Davidsz. de Heem's Eucharist in a Fruit Wreath ,” Sixteenth- Century Studies Conference, Minneapolis (October 2007)

Respondent, “War Photography.” Woodstock Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY (Spring 2005)

“The Garland Pictures' Two Receptions,” Conference on Domestic and Institutional Interiors, Victoria and Albert Museum, London (November 2004)

“ Trompe l'Oeil and the Flemish Garland Pictures,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Toronto (October 2004)

“How Miracle Images are Made: Iconoclastic Critiques and Achieropoeta in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Flanders,” Renaissance and Baroque Society, University of Miami, Miami (February 2004)

Panel co-organizer and co-chair, Historians of Netherlandish Art sponsored session, “Vision and Desire in Northern Europe, 1400-1800,” College Art Association, Philadelphia (February 2002)

“Miraculous Representations of the Virgin and Catholic Reform in Seventeenth-Century Europe,” Divine Mirrors Symposium, Davis Museum, Wellesley College (November 2000)

“The Image as Evidence: The Revival of the Icon in the Seventeenth-Century Flemish Floral Garland Paintings,” Sixteenth-Century Studies Conference, Cleveland (November 2000)

“Jesuit Largesse and the Virgin's Value in Seventeenth-Century Antwerp,” European Social Science and History Conference, Amsterdam (May 2000)

PUBLICATIONS

Icons after Iconoclasm: The Flemish Garland Pictures, 1608-1700 . Book-length manuscript in progress.

“The Garland Pictures' Two Receptions,” Domestic and Institutional Interiors in Early Modern Europe , ed. Sandra Cavallo and Silvia Evangelisti. (Aldershot, Hampshire, and Burlington VT: Ashgate Press, forthcoming 2008)

Translation from the Dutch of H. van Loon's “The Photography of Wolfgang Schulz,” in Christine Mehring, Wols Photographs, Harvard University Art Museums: Cambridge, MA, 1999.

SELECT FELLOWSHIPS

Mellon Conservation Fellowship, Harvard University Art Museums (2002-2003)

Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington -Clarice and Robert Smith Fellow (1999-2000)

Belgian American Educational Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship (1997-1998)