Visual and Performing Arts
Our faculty are active practitioners in the arts — from composition and playwriting to screenwriting, film production, art criticism, and archaeological research — and have earned prestigious honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and Smithsonian Institution.
Faculty Works from 2023
“Bardo, or the Mexican digital diaspora”, Marvin D'Lugo
Pathaan’s touch: Cinematic contact, SRK and spectatorship, Gohar Siddiqui
Submissions from 2022
SURVIVING THE CREATIVE SPACE: Teamwork Techniques for Designers, Sherry Freyermuth
Close-up and Whispering: An Understanding of Multimodal and Parasocial Interactions in YouTube ASMR videos, Shuo Niu, Hugh S. Manon, Ava Bartolome, Nguyen Binh Ha, and Keegan Veazey
Jugaad Auteurism: Alankrita Shrivastava and Feminist Bollywood, Gohar Siddiqui
Filming Women: A Conversation with Alankrita Shrivastava, Gohar Siddiqui, Anupama Arora, and Sandrine Sanos
Paul F. Keene Jr., Kristina Wilson
Submissions from 2021
Botanical Symbolism in Vicino Orsini’s Sacro Bosco, John Garton
James Maurelle: On-Site, James Maurelle, Odili Donald Odita, and Kinaya Hassane
“New Womanhood and #LipstickRebellion: Feminist Consciousness in Lipstick Under My Burkha”, Gohar Siddiqui
Add Bates, the 306 Studio, and Interlocking Modernisms in Mid-Twentieth-Century Harlem, Kristina Wilson
Mid-Century Modernism and the American Body: Race, Gender, and the Politics of Power in Design, Kristina Wilson
Submissions from 2020
Bridging the communal gap: The politics of “Hindu–Muslim” Salman Bhaijaan, Gohar Siddiqui
Submissions from 2019
Docudrama’s blurred boundaries: truth and fiction in Afghani cinema, Gohar Siddiqui
Making the Past Present: Intertextuality and Pastiche in Bollywood Neo-Noir, Gohar Siddiqui
Submissions from 2018
Language and Ideology in the German Reception of Bruckner's Symphonies in the 1930s, Benjamin Korstvedt
In Conversation Art Is Not the Archive, David Lubin, Anne Collins Goodyear, Mary K. Coffey, Emily C. Burns, John Fagg, Alexis L. Boylan, David J. Getsy, Kristina Wilson, Lisa Saltzman, Ross Barrett, and Alexander Nemerov
Submissions from 2017
'Harmonic daring' and symphonic design in the Sixth Symphony: An essay in historical musical analysis, Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Mahler's Bruckner, between devotion and misprision, Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Submissions from 2015
Like A 'Girl in a Bikini Suit' and other stories: The Herman Miller Furniture Company, Gender and race at mid-century, Kristina Wilson
Submissions from 2014
Beyond the beyond: CGI and the anxiety of overperfection, Hugh S. Manon
Submissions from 2013
Defining the “Problem”: The Development of Postwar Attitudes toward Bruckner Versions, Benjamin Korstvedt
“Behind her laughter…is fear!” Domestic abuse and transnational feminism in Bollywood remakes, Gohar Siddiqui
Fearing a "conservative public": The dial collection in Worcester, Kristina Wilson
Submissions from 2012
Partition and desire in the films of Joseph H. Lewis, Hugh S. Manon
Submissions from 2011
Reading music criticism beyond the Fin-de-siècle Vienna paradigm, Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Ambivalence, Irony, and Americana: Charles Sheeler’s “American Interiors”, Kristina Wilson
Submissions from 2010
Saarinen's Womb chair and the Mainstreaming of American Modernism, Kristina Wilson
Submissions from 2009
“Portraiture,” “Gentleman of Fashion,” “Portraits of Warriors,” and “Portraits of Family and Children,”, John Garton
Submissions from 2007
X-ray visions: Radiography, chiaroscuro, and the fantasy of unsuspicion in film noir, Hugh S. Manon
Rethinking American Modernist design, 1920-1940: Guest editor's introduction, Kristina Wilson
The Avant-Garde and the Conservative in Lighting Design: The Modernism of Walter W. Kantack, Kristina Wilson
Submissions from 2005
Style and Lifestyle in the Machine Age: The Modernist Period Rooms of “The Architect and the Industrial Arts”, Kristina Wilson
Submissions from 2004
Between formlessness and formality: Aspects of Bruckner’s approach to symphonic form, Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Bruckner editions: The revolution revisited, Benjamin M. Korstvedt
Faculty Work from 2003
The Intimate Gallery and the Equivalents: Spirituality in the 1920s Work of Stieglitz, Kristina Wilson
