Faculty Research Projects

Faculty Research Projects

Lynette M.F. Bosch

Areas of Scholarly Research

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Italian and Spanish Renaissance and Contemporary Latin American Art

Work in Progress

Continuing work on "Mannerism, Spirituality and Cognition."  Book-lenght project for Ashgate/Routledge, under contract. 

 

AREAS OF SCHOLARLY RESEARCH

  • North American modern and contemporary (late 20th and 21st century) visual and material culture, design and practice

  • Museums theory and practice

  • Gender identity and third-wave feminism

  • Built environment of the Diaspora communities in Africa and Latin America

  • Aboriginal (North and Central American) art and issues of display and retribution

  • Design and Craft theory and research methodology

PROJECTS IN PROGRESS

Book: Alla Myzelev, ed. Tchotchkes in the White Cube: Exhibiting Craft and Design in the 20th Century, under review.

Book chapter: “Touchy, feely space: Let the yarn come in.” in Alla Myzelev (ed). Tchotchkes in the White Cube: Exhibiting Craft and Design in the 20th Century, under review with Ashgate Press

Article: “Creating Digital Materiality: Feminism and Contemporary Culture of Making” under review

Article:  “Canadian Aboriginal Ballets: Performance at the Nazi Olympic Games (1936) and the Notion of Cultural Translation,” Journal of European Studies, Under Review.

 

Charles Burroughs

Research Interests:

Italian architecture, urbanism, and virtual architecture 1350-1650; ideas about origins from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment; Painting and Political Philosophy in the Renaissance -- the Case of Botticelli; Plantation Architecture and Landscapes in the Old and New Worlds. Hybrid Modernist Architecture in New York State (The Case of Edgar Tafel); F.L. Olmsted and the Effects of Landscape: Rivers and River Imagery in the Imaginary and in Urban Design, in Europe and the Americas.

 

Current Projects:

  • In preparation:

The Political Primavera: Thinking with Gods in Renaissance Florence