Elizabeth Ferrell, PhD
Assistant Professor
Biography
- Areas Of Focus
modern and contemporary art history
- Education
University of California, Berkeley
2012
Art History
MA, PhDGrinnell College
2003
Art History
Bachelor of Arts
- Research Interests
- modern and contemporary art history
Elizabeth Ferrell has been an Assistant Professor of Art History at Arcadia University since 2015. She was trained in modern and contemporary art, with a special focus on postwar America, at Grinnell College and the University of California Berkeley, where she received her PhD in 2012. She teaches courses on art since the eighteenth century.
Publications
“Artist’s Model / Model Artist: Wallace Berman’s Photographs of Jay DeFeo”
Article, Art History
“William Blake’s West Coast Circle”
Contribution to book, William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, Princeton University Press
“‘17 Contemporary American Painters’: The Crossmedial Exhibition as Propaganda”
Article, Kunstlicht
“The Lack of Interest in Maria Eichhorn’s Work”
Contribution to book, Art After Conceptual Art, MIT Press
“Chronology, 1964-1969″
Contribution to book, The Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, University of California Press
Professional Experience
Assistant Professor, Art History
Miami University
Oxford, OH
Visiting Lecturer, Art History
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Graduate Student Instructor
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Instructor
Patten University, San Quentin College Program
San Quentin, CA
Miami University
Oxford, OH
Visiting Lecturer, Art History
University of California, Davis
Davis, CA
Graduate Student Instructor
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Instructor
Patten University, San Quentin College Program
San Quentin, CA
Research Summary
Elizabeth Ferrell's research focuses on art in the United States since World War II. Her current book project, The Ring around The Rose: Jay DeFeo's Circle and Artistic Collectivity in Cold War America, examines creative exchanges that developed around The Rose, a monumental painting created by the San Francisco artist Jay DeFeo between 1958 and 1964. The project speaks to Elizabeth's general research interest in the interaction between artistic collaboration and interpersonal relationship.
