Ersy Contogouris - Département d`histoire de l`art et d`études

Ersy Contogouris [email protected] 4179 Oxford ave., Montreal, H4A 2Y5 (514) 567-­‐7102 Education 2014 1990 1988 PhD in Art History, Université de Montréal. Dissertation: “Emma Hamilton, a Model of Agency in Late Eighteenth-­‐Century Europe.” Summa cum laude, Dean’s list. MA in the Social History of Art, Leeds University. Thesis: “The Creation of Honoré Daumier as a Canonical Artist.” B.A. in Art History, McGill University. First Class Honours, University Scholar, James McGill Award. Professional Experience Academic
2015– Adjunct professor, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art. 2014– Visiting scholar, Université de Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques. 2007– Sessional lecturer, Université de Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques. 1996–98 Sessional lecturer, McGill University, Art history department. Curatorial 2012 2011 2006 Consultant, supervision of student curators of the exhibition Print in the Media Ecology, Interacting with Print research group, McGill University. Guest curator of the exhibition: People in the World of Print, Interacting with Print research group, McGill University. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/pwp/exhibition.php Assistant Curator of the exhibition La Modernité et ses platitudes: James Gillray and His Contemporaries, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/gillray/ 2000–05 2005 2004–05 Assistant Print Curator, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University. Assistant Curator of the exhibition Samuel Johnson, His Dictionary and His World, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University. Curator of the exhibition The Bicentenary of Napoleon’s Coronation, Rare Books and Special Collections Division, McGill University. Editorial 2012– 2009– Managing Editor, RACAR (Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review). Editor, translator, and copy-­‐editor of French and English texts. Publications 2011 2011 2010 Assistant editor, The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-­‐1838, ed. Todd Porterfield, Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate. “Antiquitaires et antiquités chez Gillray et Daumier,” in L’Art de la caricature, ed. Ségolène Le Men, Paris: Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest. “Inspiration divine: Lady Hamilton en sibylle par Élisabeth Vigée-­‐Le Brun,” RACAR (Revue d’art canadienne / Canadian Art Review), volume 35, number 2. Papers in Conferences and Symposia Oct. 2015 Jun. 2015 “James Gillray’s Spoof of Emma Hamilton’s Attitudes,” CSECS (Canadian Society for Eighteenth-­‐Century Studies) annual conference, Vancounver. “La mort de l’amiral Nelson représentée par James Gillray, Benjamin West et Ronald Searle,” L’image railleuse. La satire dans l’art et la culture visuelle, du 18e siècle à nos jours / The Mocking Image: Satire in Art and Visual Culture from the Eighteenth Century to Today, Paris, INHA. Mar. 2015 “Gillray’s Drawings,” James Gillray@200: Caricaturist without a Conscience? Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Oct. 2013 “Sisterhood is not Global: How Élisabeth Vigée-­‐Le Brun, Germaine de Staël, and Juliette Récamier Appropriated Emma Hamilton,” UAAC (Universities Art Association of Canada) annual conference, Banff. Aug. 2011 “Thinking in Words and Images: James Gillray’s Preparatory Drawings,” 9th International Conference on Word and Image, IAWIS (International Association of Word and Image Studies), Montreal. Ersy Contogouris 2/5
Jun. 2010 “When Gender Does not Suffice: Lady Hamilton as a Sibyl by Élisabeth Vigée-­‐Le Brun,” 8e école internationale de printemps, Réseau international pour la formation à la recherche en histoire de l’art, Florence. May 2010 “Inspiration divine: Emma Hamilton en sibylle par Élisabeth Vigée-­‐Le Brun,” 78e Congrès de l’ACFAS (Association francophone pour le savoir), Montreal. Oct. 2008 “Emma Hamilton’s Attitudes: Performing the Antique in Eighteenth-­‐Century Naples,” CSECS (Canadian Society for Eighteenth-­‐Century Studies) annual conference, Montreal. Mar. 2007 “Absence and Desire: The Collector in James Gillray’s A Cognocenti Contemplating ye Beauties of ye Antique,” Fourth Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-­‐
Century Art, New York, Dahesh Museum. Dec. 2006 “Antiquitaires et antiquités chez Gillray et Daumier,” Caricature: bilan et recherches, Paris, INHA (Institut national d’histoire de l’art). Guest Lectures Oct. 2014 “The Death of Lord Admiral Nelson de James Gillray à la lumière de Benjamin West et Ronald Searle,” Université du Québec à Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art (Undergraduate course: Caricature et satire graphique dans les arts visuels: représentations et recherches). Apr. 2012 “Sublime et ridicule: Lady Hamilton aux mains du caricaturiste James Gillray,” Hypothèses: Cycle de conférences en histoire de l’art, Université de Montréal. Mar. 2012 “Cachez ce sein que je ne saurais voir: Tom Wesselman et l’américanisation du nu,” Public lecture, in conjunction with the Université de Montréal’s Belles Soirées programme, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Feb. 2012 “James Gillray,” Université du Québec à Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art (Undergraduate course: Caricature et satire graphique dans les arts visuels: représentations et recherches). Mar. 2011 “A Volcano, a Collection, and a Wife,” Technologies, Media, and Representations in Nineteenth-­‐Century France and England research group, Concordia University. Oct. 2009 “La caricature politique,” Université du Québec à Montréal, Département de sciences politiques (MA seminar: Le discours politique). Mar. 2009 “La caricature en Europe du Nord, 1771–1845,” Université de Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques (undergraduate course: Violences de l’image artistique). Ersy Contogouris 3/5
Jan. 2009 “William Hogarth: de caractère à caricature,” Université de Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques (undergraduate course: Violences de l’image artistique). Mar. 2007 “L'illustration au 19e siècle. Aux sources de l'inspiration de Disney,” public lecture, in conjunction with the Université de Montréal’s Belles Soirées programme. Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Oct. 2006 “Honoré Daumier,” Montreal Print Collectors’ Society. Sep. + Oct. “Nineteenth-­‐Century Illustration,” Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (lectures delivered 2006 in French and English as training to the docents). Feb 2005 “Caricature during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Era,” Université de Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques (MA seminar: La modernité dans l’art). Nov. 2002 “The Art of Edouard Vuillard and his Contemporaries,” Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (lecture delivered in French and English as training to the docents). Sep. 2001 “Francisco Goya’s Three Great Print Series, and The Disasters of War by Jake and Dinos Chapman,” Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (lectures delivered in French and English as training to the docents). Mar. 1999 “The Historical Background to Honoré Daumier’s Work” and “The Work of Honoré Daumier,” National Gallery, Ottawa (lectures delivered in French and English to the gallery’s docents in connection with the major 1999 Daumier retrospective). Feb. 1998 “Back to the Future: Primitivism and Modern Art” McGill University, Continuing Education (General Studies, Themes, Ideas, and Special Topics) Nov. 1997 “Daumier’s Satirical Caricatures: The Power of the Print,” McGill University, Continuing Education (General Studies, Themes, Ideas, and Special Topics) Mar. 1997 “Men and Women Impressionists: Different Ways of Seeing?” McGill University, Continuing Education (General Studies, Themes, Ideas, and Special Topics) Nov. 1996 “Representing the Modern World: The Realist Art of Courbet and Manet,” McGill University, Continuing Education (General Studies, Themes, Ideas, and Special Topics) Nov. 1995 “Honoré Daumier: Between Romanticism and Realism,” McGill University, Art History Department (undergraduate course: Art in the Age of Revolution). Jul. 1995 “Realist Art,” McGill University, Art History Department (undergraduate course: Introduction to Modern Art). Ersy Contogouris 4/5
Mar. 1995 “An Introduction to the Prints of Honoré Daumier,” McGill University, Art History Department (MA seminar: Goya to Daumier: Prints, Politics and Social Commentary). Sep. 1995 “Modernism and the Modern Condition: Modernism, Modernist Space(s) and the Modern Aesthetic,” Public lecture, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Research 2005–14 2011 2009–11 2006–07 1995 Research assistant for Todd Porterfield, Professor and Research Chair at the Université de Montréal. Member of the research group “La Paix d’Amiens,” a SSHRC-­‐funded project directed by Professor Todd Porterfield and based at the Université de Montréal. Member of the research group “Technologies, Media and Representations in Nineteenth-­‐Century France and England,” an FQRSC-­‐funded research team led by Professor Michael Eberle-­‐Sinatra and comprising professors from the Université de Montréal, Concordia University, and McGill University. Member of the “Groupe de recherche sur la caricature,” a SSHRC-­‐funded project directed by Professor Todd Porterfield and based at the Université de Montréal. Research assistant for Professor Carol Solomon Kiefer, McGill University, on a project examining the patronage and representation of the women in Napoleon’s family. Other Relevant Experience 2014– 2014 2013– 2010 Member of MA defense juries. Session organiser and chair, “Things: Their Lives, Agency, and Meanings,” double panel, UAAC Conference, Toronto, OCADU. External reader in double-­‐blind evaluation of manuscripts. Member of the jury for the Jay Fliegelman Excellence in Mentorship Award Committee, ASECS Graduate Student Caucus. 2009– Supervision of Honours students, Université de Montréal, Département d’histoire de l’art et d’études cinématographiques. I am fluent in French, English, and Greek, speak Spanish, and have basic knowledge of Italian and German. Ersy Contogouris 5/5