Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests:
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum Studies
Fashion and Material Culture of Eastern Europe
Digital Humanities and digital museum studies
Classes
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ARTH 287: Avant-Garde & Modernism
The study of artistic responses to modernism's utopian visions and the devastation of two world wars. Major art movements include: Primitivism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, the Bauhaus and Abstract Expressionism; artists include: Matisse, Picasso, Duchamp, Dali, Magritte, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Pollock.
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ARTH 378: Museum Studies
This course is intended to acquaint students with museum practices and theory, approaches to scholarly research, business and curatorial practices, connected professional organizations and national and international issues faced by museums. Aspects of display design, museum education, transport of work, as well as study of different types of museums is included in the course content.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Queens University, Kingston
M.A. York University
B.A. Hebrew University, Jerusalem
Books
Alla Myzelev, ed., Exhibiting Craft and Design: Transgressing the White Cube Paradigm 1930-present, 978-1-4724-7695-1, Burlington, VT: Ashgate, June 2017.
Alla Myzelev, Architecture, Design and Craft in Toronto 1900-1940: Creating Modern Living. ISBN: 978-1-4724-5700-4. Burlington, VT: Ashgate, March 2016
Alla Myzelev, Group of Seven and its Role in Canadian Culture. Teaching Module. Toronto: Nelson, 2014.
John Potvin and Alla Myzelev, eds., Fashion, Interior Design and the Contours of Modern Identity, Burlington; Aldershot: Ashgate, 2010.
John Potvin and Alla Myzelev, eds., Material Culture in Britain, 1750-1920: The Visual Meanings and Pleasures of Collecting, Burlington; Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.