Michelle Facos
Michelle Facos | |
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| Born | February 25, 1955 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Professor of Art History at Kirkland (Hamilton) College |
| Alma mater | New York University Institute of Fine Arts |
| Thesis | 'Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s' (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Kirk Varnedoe |
Michelle Facos (born February 25, 1955) is an American writer and art historian.
Early life
A native of
Kirkland (Hamilton) College in 1976 with a B.A. in art history and comparative literature. Upon graduation, she worked as a paralegal in New York City at Debevoise & Plimpton and White & Case.[1]
Academic career
After working as a paralegal, Facos continued her art historical studies at the
The Brooklyn Museum, 1982–83), was the first doctoral dissertation on Swedish painting written by a North American;[2] It was completed in 1989 and revised and published in 1998 as Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s.[1] In 1996, Dr. Facos was the only art historian and non-Scandinavian invited to join the research project Cultural Processes in Nordic Forest Communities, led by Ingar Kaldal of Trondheim University.[3] She has lectured, taught, and written widely on the subject of Scandinavian art and culture, especially in Sweden. Her most recent books, Symbolist Art in Context and An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art, are read in classrooms around the globe.[4]
Since 2015, Facos also serves as the Academic Dean and Program Director of GGE Summer School,[5] a pre-college summer enrichment program for international high school students in Greifswald, Germany.
Business career
Facos’s experience of living and working in Sweden ignited a passion for
Sami (Lapp) inhabitants. In 2015, she co-founded MooseBooties, LLC, a company manufacturing and selling luxury infant footwear from Scandinavian moose leather.[6]
Honors and awards
Facos received a
Greifswald University
, Germany.
Since 2012 she has been Editor-in-Chief of ARTS, an open access scholarly arts journal from MDPI.[citation needed]
Books
- A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Art, editor (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2019)
- Symbolist Roots of Modern Art, co-editor with Thor J. Mednick (London: Ashgate, 2015)
- An Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Art (London: Routledge, 2011)
- Symbolist Art in Context (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2009)
- Culture and National Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Europe, coeditor with Sharon Hirsh (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003)
- Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s (Berkeley: The University of California Press, 1998) According to WorldCat, the book is held in 1761 libraries[8]
References
- ^ a b c Indiana University: "CV Michelle Facos".
- ^ Inc., Indigo Books & Music,. "Into the Light: The Paintings Of William Blair Bruce (1859 , 1906), Book by Tobi Bruce (Hardcover) | chapters.indigo.ca". www.chapters.indigo.ca.
- ^ Kaldal, Ingar. "Michelle Facos: Picturing the Nordic Forest". www.kaldal.net.
- ^ Team, UofL Web. "Lecture by Michelle Facos: Size Counts, Titles Matter". University of Louisville.
- ^ "Homepage - GGE Summer School". ggesummerschool.
- ^ "About Us – MooseBooties". Archived from the original on 2016-02-14. Retrieved 2016-02-02.
- ^ "404 - Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald" Archived 2015-04-02 at the Wayback Machine. www.wiko-greifswald.de.
- ^ "Facos, Michelle [WorldCat.org]". www.worldcat.org.
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