Curriculum Vitae Karen A. Bearor - Florida State University

Curriculum Vitae

Karen A. Bearor

April 03, 2019

General Information

University address: Department of Art History

College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance

William Johnston Building 1019

Florida State University

Tallahassee, Florida 32306-1233

Phone: (850) 644-1250; Fax: (850) 644-7065

E-mail address: [email protected]

Professional Preparation

1988 Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin. Major: Art History.

1981 M.A., University of Texas at Austin. Major: Art History.

1974 B.F.A., University of Texas at Austin. Major: Art History. With Honors.

1974 B.A., University of Texas at Austin. Major: Studio Art.

Nondegree Education and Training

2018–present awarded sabbatical.

2005–2006 Awarded sabbatical.

1998–1999 Awarded sabbatical.

1997 Participant, "New Media Classroom," NEH Summer Institute.

Professional Experience

1996–present Associate Professor, Art History, Florida State University.

1992–1996 Assistant Professor, Art History, Florida State University.

Vita for Karen A. Bearor

1990–1992 Assistant Professor, University of Houston.

1988–1990 Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

1987–1988 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1986–1987 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska at Lincoln.

1985–1986 Slide Librarian, Art Department, University of Texas at Austin.

1985 Art School Administrator, Dougherty Arts Center.

1982–1984 Teaching Assistant, University of Texas at Austin.

1981–1982 Clinical Coordinator and Instructor, Radiation Therapy Technology.

1978 Life Drawing Instructor, Murray-Meadows School of Art.

Language Proficiency

French - rudimentary in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.

German - rudimentary in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.

Spanish - rudimentary in speaking and writing; intermediate in reading.

Honors, Awards, and Prizes

Nominated for University Teaching Award (Graduate) (2016).

Nominated for University Teaching Award (Graduate) (2014).

William R. Jones Outstanding Mentor Award, Florida Education Fund (2009).

CRC Small Grant for research on book (2007).

Selected as a "Webstar", Office of Distance and Distributed Learning (2004).

Selected to participate in Web-Design Project, Office of the Dean of Graduate Studies (1998).

Awarded Council on Research and Creativity Summer Research Award, Florida State University

(1997).

Participant, NEH Summer Institute, "New Media Classroom", American Social History Project,

CUNY, and the Crossroads Project of the American Studies Association and Gerogetown

University (1997).

Awarded Teaching Incentive Program award for excellence in teaching, Florida State University

(1995).

Book nominated for the 1995 Charles C. Eldredge Prize, the National Museum of American Art

(1995).

Participant, NEH Summer Institute, "The Thirties: American Literature, Art, and Culture in

Interdisciplinary Perspective", University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1995).

I. Rice Pereira exhibition in honor of the publication of my book, Andre Zarre Gallery (1994).


Council on Research and Creativity Summer Research Award, First Year Faculty, FSU (1993).

Research Grant, Tallahassee Women's Salon (1993).

Research Initiative Grant, University of Houston (1991).

Commendation for work with educationally disadvantaged students, University of Nebraska at

Lincoln (1987).

Woods Travel Grant, University of Nebraska at Lincoln (1987).

Current Membership in Professional Organizations

American Studies Association

Association of Historians of American Art

College Art Association

Phi Kappa Phi Honorary Society

Teaching

Courses Taught

Global Women's Art (ARH4876)

U.S. Art Between World Wars (ARH5806)

Art of the African Diaspora (ARH 4933)

Art, Architecture, and Artistic Vision (British Art and Architecture) (ARH 2000)

Harlem Renaissance Art (ARH5806)

Documentary Photo & Film (ARH4800)

Memory, Monuments, Memorials (ARH5806)

Cold War (ARH5806)

Global Women's Art (ARH4876)

Progressive Era: Advertising, Propaganda, and Arts of Persuasion (ARH 5806)

Directed Individual Study (ARH5907)

Documentary Photo and Film (ARH4800)

Documentary Photography and Film (ARH6718)

Honors in the Major (ARH4815)

Interwar (ARH5806)

Harlem Renaissance (ARH5907)

Honors Work in Art History (ARH4815)

BRITISH ART & ARCHITECTURE (ARH4933)

Progressive Era (ARH5806)

Teaching Colloquium in Art History (ARH6920)

Writing on Monuments (ARH5907)

Readings for Examinations (ARH6904)

Special Topics (ARH3930)

Seminar in the History and Criticism of Art (ARH5806)

US Art: Colonial Era to the Centennial (ARH4621)

Topics in 20th-Century Art: Seminar (ARH6695)


Special Topics in Art History (ARH4933)

American Art before 1940 (ARH5625)

US Art: Centennial through Late Modernism (ARH4620)

Seminar in the Methods of Art History (ARH5813)

Art History Methods and Media (ARH4810)

Senior Seminar (AMS4935)

Internship in Museum Studies (ARH4941)

Art, Architecture, and Artistic Vision (ARH2000)

Methods of Art Criticism (ARH3800)

Tutorial in Classical Archaeology (ARH5934)

Seminar in the Methods of Art History (ARH5795)

Art after 1940 (ARH4642)

Art after 1940 (ARH5648)

Internship in Museum Studies (ARH5942)

20th-Century Feminist Art Criticism (ARH5875)

20th-Century U.S. Women's Art (ARH4870)

Topics in 19th-Century Art Seminar (ARH6694)

American Art before 1940 (ARH4640)

Modern European Art: Post-Impressionism - Surrealism (ARH4432)

Doctoral Committee Chair

Burrell, B. T., graduate. (2013). Abbott Laboratories: Provisioning a Vision.

Hensley, C. M., graduate. (2011). The Cult of Personality: Gertrude Stein and the Development

of the Object Portrait in the American Visual Arts.

Burgess, L. A., graduate. (2010). Advancing American Art and its Afterlife: From the State

Department to the University Museum.

Roach, L. A., graduate. (2010). A Positive, Popular Art: Sources, Structure, and Impact of

Gyorgy Kepes's Language of Vision.

Heuer, E., graduate. (2008). Going Postal: Surrealism and the Discourses of Mail Art.

Scothorn, H., graduate. (2005). Form, Function and Foreign Influence: A Comprehensive Survey

of Samoan Bark Cloth from 1830-1900. (defense passed 2005; manuscript undeposited).

Merryday, M., graduate. (2002). The Relevance of Jürgen Habermas's Concept of the Public

Sphere for Contemporary Public Art Practices. (Put forward by the Department of Art

History for the 2003 Council of Graduate Schools Distinguished Dissertation Award).

Watkins, M., graduate. (2000). Painting the American Indian at the Turn of the Century: Joseph

Henry Sharp and his Patrons, William H. Holmes, Phoebe A. Hearst, and Joseph G.

Butler, Jr.

Nanny, M., doctoral student.


Doctoral Committee Member

Wolff, L., graduate. (2018). Imagined Foodways: Nation, Consumption, and Visuality in

Postrevolutionary Mexico City (1920-1960).

Lescher, Mery-Et, graduate. (2017). The Little Studio That Could: Walt Disney Feature

Animation's Florida Studio.

Lundy, H., graduate. (2016). Architecture and Placemaking at a Northern Maya City: Ek' Balam

and the Question of Style.

McLane, P., graduate. (2006). Alessandro Magnasco and the Painterly Picaresque.

Greenman, B., graduate. (2002). The Monument du Costume of Jean-Michel Moreau le Jeune:

Art, Society and Politics in Revolutionary France.

Davis, D., graduate. (1998). Three Interior Genre Scenes by Nicolas Lancret (1690-1743):

Costume and Decor in Eighteenth-Century French Painting.

Piland, S., graduate. (1997). Charles Mulford Robinson: Theory and Practice in Early

Twentieth-Century Urban Planning.

Johnson, E., graduate. (1993).

Bowman-McElhone, A., doctoral candidate. Muck, Slime, and Ignorance: Mike Kelley, Anxiety,

and the Pedagogic.

Demeter, M., doctoral candidate. The Intersection of American Historical Imagination and

Entertainment: A Cultural Analysis of Walt Disney's Attractions at the 1964-65 New York

World's Fair.

Fesperman, R., doctoral candidate.

Germana, G., doctoral candidate. Paintings of Sarhua.

Lindeman, A., doctoral candidate.

Reilly, A., doctoral candidate. Redirecting the Modern Museum: James Johnson Sweeney's

Exhibition Practices in Postwar America.

Doctoral Committee University Representative

Strait, Z., graduate. (2018).

Geer, A., graduate. (2017). Organizing Archives, Accessing American Culture: Documents in the

National Federation of Music Clubs' Greenwood, Indiana, Headquarters.

Moffitt, J., graduate. (2014). Representation and the Modern Female Subject: The New Woman

Painter in American Literature.

Stegall, E., graduate. (2014). Ideological, Dystopic, and Antimythopoeic Formations of

Masculinity in the Vietnam War Film.

Reed, Peter [English], graduate. (2004). Arrant Beggars: Staging the Atlantic

Lumpenproletariat, 1777-1852.

Carr, Madeleine H. [History], graduate. (2002). Denying Hegemony: The Function and Place of

Florida's Jook Joints During the Twentieth Century's First Fifty Years.

Teague, David [English], graduate. (1994). Frank Norris: The Novelist as Visual Artist.

Williams, C. M., doctoral candidate. Paint, Poetry, and Prose: The Visual Art Aesthetic of New

Negro Renaissance Writers.

Lobaina, A. D., doctoral student.


Master's Committee Chair

Stricklin, K., graduate. (2014). Propaganda Portraits and the Easing of American Anxieties

through WRA Films.

Glover, C. M., graduate. (2012). Anni Albers's Modernist Philosophy in Thread and Text.

Mahan, N. L., graduate. (2010). Krzysztof Wodiczko's 'If You See Something . . .': Artistic

Reformulation of Democracy and the Counter-Monument in Post-9/11 America. (Put

forward by the Department of Art History and by Florida State University for nomination

for the 2010 Master's Theses Award, Conference of Southern Graduate Schools; put

forward by FSU for nomination for the 2010 Master's These Award in the Humanities,

Conference of Southern Graduate Schools).

Matthews, T., graduate. (2010). Cognition and Sculpted Space: Responding to Anish Kapoor's

Cloud Gate.

Klein, S., graduate. (2005). Putting Katherine Dreier into Perspective: Modern Art Collecting in

Early Twentieth-Century America.

Tomlin, P., graduate. (2002). From Modernism to Mass Culture: The Early Photographs by Paul

Outerbridge. (Put forward by the Department of Art History and by Florida State

University for nomination for the 2005 Master's Theses Award, Conference of Southern

Graduate Schools).

Heuer, E., graduate. (2001). Souvenirs of Venice: American Artists and Tourism.

Knott, E., graduate. (2001). The Index of American Design: A Museum Curator's 'Way of Seeing'

American Art History in the 1930s. [American Studies].

Mauro, P., graduate. (2001). Fred Wilson and Exhibitionary Revisionism in American Museums.

Thurlow, I., graduate. (2000). Ivan Albright's Images of Women from the 1920s: Parodies of Art

Historical Types.

Adonizzio, S., graduate. (1997). Berenice Abbott: An Eye for an 'I'.

Kloman, S., graduate. (1997). Imogen Cunningham's On Mount Rainier Series.

Wasano, J., graduate. (1997). C. R. W. Nevinson's Paths of Glory.

Kallan, A., graduate. (1996). Emil Holzhauer: Paintings of Southern Life and Myth.

Reeves, L., graduate. (1994). Parody in Louise Bourgeois' Femme-Maison Paintings.

Master's Committee Member

Sciuchetti, M. J., graduate. (2018).

Demos, L., graduate. (2013). Seeing Salvation: The Mosaic of Justinian and Constantine

Offering Gifts to the Enthroned Virgin and Child in the Southwest Vestibule of Hagia

Sophia, Istanbul.

Ewing, S., graduate. (2013). An Object About Something: The Interrogative Practice of Robert

Heinecken's Magazine Works.

Higbee, L., graduate. (2013). New Topographics and Generic Transformation in the Landscape.

Sherman, L. R., graduate. (2012).

Geer, Ashley Brooke [Music], graduate. (2011).

Middleton, M. L., graduate. (2011).

Simmons, S. C., graduate. (2011).


MacKey, R. A., graduate. (2009).

Chamblee, Kathleen [MFA, Studio Art], graduate. (2000).

McNeill, R., graduate. (2000).

Davis, D., graduate. (1998). Three Interior Genre Scenes by Nicolas Lancret (1690–1743):

Costume and Décor in Eighteenth-Century French Painting.

Smith, K. L., graduate. (1998).

Solomon, M. G., graduate. (1998).

Waldroup, H., graduate. (1998).

Matthews, K., graduate. (1996).

Areford, D., graduate. (1995).

Francis, John M. [Communications], graduate. (1995).

LeZotte, A., graduate. (1995).

Robinson, E., graduate. (1994).

Sciuchetti, Mark J. [Music], student. [[Music]]

Bachelor's Committee Chair

Sunnergren, V., graduate. (2015). Rugs and Silver, Artists and Craftsmen: The Development of

Artistic Autonomy in Southwestern Native American Art.

Bachelor's Committee Member

Swantek, Samanth [English], graduate. (2017). The F-Word: Why Contemporary Media Causes

Women to Stray from Identifying as 'Feminist,' and How the Fourth Wave Can Change It

All.

Diez, Clara [Film School], graduate. (2015). The Art of Bear and Bee (original story and concept

book).

Gregory, Kim [Art], graduate. (2014). Felt Forms.

Arrant, M., graduate. (2011). Parallel Images: Gender, Complementarity, and Ritual in the

Imaging of Lady K'abal Xook, Lady Mut Bahlam, and Lady Wak Tuun.

Crist, Rachel [Art], graduate. (2009). Mapping Place, vol. 1: A Trespasser's Guide to the

Globalized South.

Norton, Kristen [History], graduate. (2007). Father Knows Best: Television's Portrayal of the

Postwar American Family, 1945-1959.

LeHors, Pierre [Art], graduate. (2002). Recent Retrospectives: Viewpoints on Photography in the

Works of Gerhard Richter and Andreas Gursky.

Hesla, Leah [Music], graduate. (1997). Music in Marc Chagall's The Sources of Music and The

Triumph of Music.

Additional Teaching Not Reported Elsewhere

Bearor, K. (2014). Faculty Mentor, Mentored Research and Creative Endeavor Award (MRCE).


Bearor, K. A. (1998–2005). First art history faculty member to convert all courses to

web-assisted teaching with instructor-designed and built websites. Florida State

University.

Bearor, K. A. (1997). First art history faculty member to convert a course to web-assisted

teaching with instructor-designed and built website: ARH 4620. Florida State University.

Bearor, K. A. (1995). Reader, Masters Thesis, Stephen M. Wagner, "Embracing Convent Life

Through Illustrations of Joseph in a Fourteenth Century Italian Translation of the

Meditations on the Life of Christ: Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale, MS ITAL 115,".

Research and Original Creative Work

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Bearor, K. A. (2011). The Illustrated American and the Lakota Ghost Dance. American

Periodicals, 21(2), 143-163.

Bearor, K. A. (1996). The Design Laboratory: New Deal Experiment in Vanguardism.

Southeastern College Art Conference Review, 13(1), 14 - 31.

Invited Books

Bearor, K. A. (1994). Irene Rice Pereira's Early Work: Embarking on an Eastward Journey.

Coral Gables, FL: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami.

Refereed Books

Bearor, K. (2012). Irene Rice Pereira: Her Paintings and Philosophy [Reprint edition].

University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.

Bearor, K. (2010). Irene Rice Pereira: Her Paintings and Philosophy [Kindle edition].

University of Texas Press, Austin, TX.

Bearor, K. A. (1993). Irene Rice Pereira: Her Paintings and Philosophy. Austin, TX: University

of Texas Press.


Invited Book Chapters

Bearor, K. A. (2010). Light Play in Abstract Art and Film. In Mary-Kate O'Hare (Ed.),

Constructive Spirit: Abstract Art in South and North America, 1920s - 1950s (pp. 88 -

103). Petaluma, CA: Pomegranate Communications, Inc.

Bearor, K. A. (2003). Subjectivity, (Auto)biography, and the 'Artist Named Pereira'. In Kristen

Frederickson, & Sarah E. Webb (Eds.), In Singular Women: Writing the Artist (pp. 179 -

199). Berkeley: University of California Press.

Invited Encyclopedia Entries

Bearor, K. A. (1999). Pereira, Irene Rice. In John A. Garraty (Ed.), American National

Biography. New York: Oxford University Press and the American Council of Learned

Socities.

Bearor, K. A. (1997). Pereira, I(rene) Rice. In Delia Gaze (Ed.), Dictionary of Women Artists (p.

1089 - 1091). London: Fitzroy Dearborn.

Bearor, K. A. (1995). Irene Rice Pereira. In Jules Heller, & Nancy G. Heller (Eds.), North

American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New

York: Garland Publishing, Inc.

Invited Reviews

Bearor, K. (2015). Mark Dion: Travels of William Bartram Reconsidered. Journal of Florida

Studies, 1(4). Retrieved from

http://www.journaloffloridastudies.org/files/vol0104/04Bearor.pdf

Bearor, K. A. (2009). Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keeffe and the Women of the

Stieglitz Circle, by Kathleen Pyne. Woman's Art Journal, 30(2), 48 - 50.

Bearor, K. A. (2006). My Love Affair with Modern Art: Katherine Kuh Behind the Scenes with

a Legendary Curator, by Avis Berman. Woman's Art Journal, 27(2), 56 - 59.

Bearor, K. A. (2006). The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western

Hemisphere, by Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg.

Southeastern College Art Conference Review, 15(1), 40 - 43.

Bearor, K. A. (2003). Andrew Hemingway, Artists on the Left: American Artists and the

Communist Movement, 1926-1956. CAA Reviews.

http://www.journaloffloridastudies.org/files/vol0104/04Bearor.pdf


Bearor, K. A. (2003). Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and

American Formalist Aesthetics by Marcia Brennan. Woman's Art Journal, 24(2), 46 - 49.

Bearor, K. A. (2002). Frances K. Pohl, Framing America: A Social History of American Art.

Southeastern College Art Conference Review, 14(2), 144-145.

Bearor, K. A. (2001). Mary Ann Calo, Critical Issues in American Art: A Book of Readings;

Marianne Doezema and Elizabeth Milroy, Reading American Art; and Patricia Hills,

Modern Art in the USA: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century. Southeastern

College Art Conference Review, 15(1), 40 - 42.

Bearor, K. A. (2001). Melissa McEuen, Seeing America: Women Photographers Between the

Wars and Bettina Berch, The Woman Behind the Lens: The Life and Work of Frances

Benjamin Johnston, 1864-1952. National Women's Studies Association Journal, 13(2),

157 - 160.

Bearor, K. A. (1997). Cartooning for Suffrage by Alice Sheppard. Woman's Art Journal, 18(1),

46 - 49.

Bearor, K. A. (1997). A History of Women Photographers by Naomi Rosenblum; Illuminations:

Women Writing on Photography from the 1850s to the Present by Liz Heron, Val

Williams; Reframings: New American Feminist Photographies by Diane Neumaier.

National Women's Studies Association Journal, 9(3), 189 - 193.

Invited Newsletter Articles

Bearor, K. A. (2000, November). Committee on Women in the Arts Honors Elsa Honig Fine.

CAA News, 6.

Bearor, K. A. (1984). Rice Pereira's 'The One'. Newsletter, Archer M. Huntington Galleries, Fall,

5 - 6.

Nonrefereed Journal Articles

Bearor, K. A. (1987). Proposed Third Line Classification for Altarpieces, Modified Fogg

System. International Bulletin for Photographic Documentation of the Visual Arts,

Journal of the Visual Resources Association, 14(Spring), 32 - 34.

Nonrefereed Monographs

Bearor, K. A. (submitted). Irene Rice Pereira's Early Work: Embarking on an Eastward

Journey. Manuscript submitted for publication.


Nonrefereed Reports

Bearor, K. A. (1999). Art and the Shaping of Identity (Multimedia activity based upon the

painting collection of the National Museum of American Art). American Social History

Project Center for Media and Learning.

Bearor, K. A., Russell, J., Schaffer, S., & Emmert, S. (1998). Using the Web in Your Classroom

(Laboratory workshop manual). Tallahassee: Center for Academic Support and Distance

Learning, Florida State University.

Bearor, K. A. (1997). Art and the Shaping of Identity: 'National Museum of American Art'

CD-ROM Activity (Multimedia activity based upon the painting collection of the National

Museum of American Art). American Social History Project, CUNY Graduate School

and University Center, American Social History Project.

Bearor, K. A. (1996). Selections from Chroma (Main catalogue essay). Ocala, FL: Appleton

Museum of Fine Arts.

Bearor, K. A. (1994). Chroma (Main catalogue essay). Tallahassee: Florida State University

Gallery and Museum.

Bearor, K. A. (1994). Scattered Cohesion (Main catalogue essay). Tallahassee: Art Department,

Florida State University.

Bearor, K. A. (1989). American Women Artists: The Twentieth Century (One-page essays on

paintings by twelve women artists). Knoxville, TN: Knoxville Museum of Art and

Bennett Galleries.

Bearor, K. A. (1988). Collecting the West: The C. R. Smith Collection of Western American Art

(Twenty-one one-page entries on individual paintings by various artists). Austin:

University of Texas Press.

Presentations

Refereed Papers at Conferences

Bearor, K. (presented 2016, September). The Design Laboratory, the FAECT, and the 1930s

Housing Movement. Paper presented at ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 8,

University of North Carolina Asheville and Black Mounntain College Museum and Arts

Center, University of North Carolina Asheville. (National)

Bearor, K. (presented 2015, September). Marketing the Bauhaus-Inspired Design Laboratory.

Paper presented at ReVIEWING Black Mountain College 7, University of North Carolina


Asheville and Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center, University of North

Carolina Asheville. (National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 2008, April). Illustrators Burying the Truth at Wounded Knee. Paper

presented at Annual Meeting, Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, Miami. (National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 2003, October). The Nature of Space: A Reappraisal of Irene Rice

Pereira's Concept of Space-Time. Paper presented at Annual Conference, Society for

Literature and Science, Austin. (National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 2001, October). Putting the 'Progressive' in Progressive Education:

Photography in Service of Educational Reform. Paper presented at the, Southeastern

College Art Conference. (Regional)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 2001, March). Situated Knowledges: Bodies, Politics, and Technology

in the Feminist Art History Classroom. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, College Art

Association, Chicago. (National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1999, March). Researching (Im)material Culture in Cyberspace. Paper

presented at the American Society, for Eighteenth Century Studies, Milwaukee.

(National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1997, October). The American Federation of Arts, the Russell Sage

Foundation, and the "Americanization" of Arts in the 1930s. Paper presented at the,

Southeastern College Art Conference, Arizona State University. (Regional)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1997, February). Feminism and Period Surveys in Art History:

Pedagogical Strategies. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, College Art Association,

New York. (National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1995, November). The Way We Weren't: Archetypal Theory and

Mis(s)remembering in 1930s Geometric Abstraction. Paper presented at Annual Meeting,

American Studies Association, Pittsburgh. (National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1994, October). Geometric Abstraction as `Projection' of the

Unconscious. Paper presented at the, Southeastern College Art Conference, Washington

and Lee University. (Regional)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1994, October). Revolutionaries or Muses? Depictions of Women in

Advertisements for the WPA's Design Laboratory in New York. Paper presented at

Statewide, Women's Studies Conference. (Regional)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1993, October). Promoting Progress: Publicity for the WPA's Design

Laboratory. Paper presented at the, Southeastern College Art Conference, Arizona State

University. (Regional)


Bearor, K. A. (presented 1993, August). Interplay of Text and Image in James P. Boyd's Account

of the 'Ghost Dance' in his Recent Indian Wars (1891). Paper presented at Third

International Congress, International Association of Word and Image Studies, Carleton

University, Ottawa, Canada. (International)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1992, February). Building Ourselves a Better Enemy: The Complicity of

Artist-Correspondents in Events Leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre. Paper

presented at Annual Meeting, College Art Association, Northwestern University.

(National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1990, February). Gender Bias in Jungian Theory and Its Impact on the

Career of Irene Rice Pereira. Paper presented at Annual Meeting, College Art

Association, Yale University. (National)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1989, November). Transformational Imagery in the Glass Paintings by

I. Rice Pereira. Paper presented at 53rd Annual Conference, Mid-America College Art

Association, University of Cincinnati. (Regional)

Bearor, K. A. (presented 1987, April). I. Rice Pereira's `Grand Theory' in Paint. Paper presented

at Fourteenth Annual Meeting, Midwest Art History Society, University of Michigan.

(Regional)

Nonrefereed Papers at Conferences

Bearor, K. A. (presented 2006). The Feminist Art Project: The Florida Initiative. Paper presented

at College Art Association Annual Meeting, Feminist Art Project. (National)

Nonrefereed Presentations at Conferences

Bearor, K. A. (submitted). Matthew Barney's Cremaster 2: The Film in Context. Presentation

submitted for approval.

Nonrefereed Workshops

Bearor, K. A., Russell, J., Schaffer, S., & Emmert, S. (1998). Using the Web in Your Classroom.

Workshop delivered at Art History Department and Center for Academic Support and

Distance Learning, Florida State University. (Local)

Bearor, K. A., & Thompson, D. (1997). New Media Classroom, Too. Workshop delivered at Art

History Department, Florida State University. (Local)


Invited Lectures and Readings of Original Work

Bearor, K. (2016, September). Re-Viewing the Birth Project in the "Fourth Wave" Era.

Delivered at Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Florica State University

Museum of Fine Arts. (Local)

Bearor, K. (2016, January). It Happened One Night. Delivered at Knott House, Tallahassee, FL,

Knott House, Tallahassee, FL. (Local)

Bearor, K. (2016, January). Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict. Delivered at Tallahassee Film

Socity, Tallahassee Film Society. (Local)

Bearor, K. (2015, September). Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery. Delivered at Tallahassee Film

Society, Tallahassee Film Society. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2010, December). Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. Delivered at

Tallahassee Film Society. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2010, December). Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (expanded talk).

Delivered at Tallahassee Film Society. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2008, March). (Co-presenter) Introduction and discussion, with documentary

filmmaker Steven J. Ross. Delivered at Tallahassee Film Society. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2007, November). Issues in Authenticating Paintings by Jackson Pollock.

Delivered at Tallahassee Film Society. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2006, February). Do Women Have to Be Naked to Get Into the Met, or Looking

Back on Women Artists and Art Historians of the Last Thirty Years. Delivered at Artists'

League. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2005, April). Personal Recollections: Women in Art History in the 1970s.

Delivered at Florida State University Undergraduate Art History Association. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2004, March). On Coming Home. Delivered at Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.

(State)

Bearor, K. A. (2002, September). Issues Surrounding the Study of American Impressionism.

Delivered at Mary Brogan Museum of Art. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2002, July). American Impressionism. Delivered at Tallahassee Angels of Art.

(Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2001, September). A 'Necessary Proximity': Documentary and Modernist

Photography. Delivered at Appleton Museum of Art. (State)


Bearor, K. A. (2001, July). Web-Assisted Teaching in Art History: My Experience. Delivered at

the Pilot Academic Consortium for Technology, Florida State University. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2001, April). Seeing Red. Delivered at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and

Science, Tallahassee. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (2000). Pop Art in Britain and the U.S. Delivered at FSU's Developmental

Research School. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1999, April). Feminist Art. Delivered at FSU Museum of Fine Arts and the FSU

Women's Studies Program. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1996, October). Depictions of Interpersonal Violence and Rape in Painting and

Photography. Delivered at FSU chapter of the National Organization for Women. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1995, April). Irene Rice Pereira's Autobiographical Construction of the Modern

Woman Artist: Benefits and Pitfalls. Delivered at Art Department, University of Florida.

(State)

Bearor, K. A. (1994, May). Irene Rice Pereira's Early Work. Delivered at Art Department,

Florida International University. (State)

Bearor, K. A. (1993, February). Irene Rice Pereira's Visual Metaphors of Spiritual Quest.

Delivered at Tallahassee Women's Salon. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1992, April). Blurring the Boundaries Between Geometric Abstraction and

Surrealism: The Case of Irene Rice Pereira. Delivered at Rice University. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1992, January). Various Strategies by Feminist Critics. Delivered at Sewall Art

Gallery, Rice University. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1991, October). The Essentialist/Constructivist Controversy in Feminist Theory.

Delivered at Houston Women's Caucus for Art. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1991, April). Not Yet Forgotten; Thoughts on Irene Rice Pereira's Obscurity.

Delivered at Houston Women's Caucus for Art. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1990, January). Selected Women. Delivered at Knoxville Museum of Art. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1989, May). I. Rice Pereira. Delivered at Knoxville Watercolor Society. (Local)

Bearor, K. A. (1989, April). Sexuality and the Gaze. Delivered at Women's Coordinating Council

and Women's Studies Program, University of Tennessee. (Local)


Bearor, K. A. (1989, January). Anselm Kiefer and the German Romantic Tradition. Delivered at

Oak Ridge (TN) Art Association. (Local)

Reviews of My Research and Original Creative Work by Other Authors

Reviews Appearing in Journals

Langa, H. (2004). Recent Feminist Art History: An American Sampler. Feminist Studies, 30(3),

705.

Rowe, D. (2004). Women Writing Art's Histories. Oxford Art Journal, 27(1), 127-130.

Davis, J. (2003). The End of the American Century: Current Scholarship on the Art of the United

States. American Art, 85(3), 544-580.

Fahlman, B. (1996). Irene Rice Pereira: Her Paintings and Philosophy by Karen A. Bearor.

Woman's Art Journal, 17(2), 40-42.

Simpson, P. H. (1996). Feminist Art Criticism, an Annotated Bibliography; Women Artists, an

Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography. Woman's Art Journal, 17(2), 56.

Risatti, H., & Edwards, A. (1995). Karen A. Bearor, Irene Rice Pereira: Her Paintings and

Philosophy. Southeastern College Art Conference Review, 12(5), 430-432.

Navaretta, C. (1994). Irene Rice Pereira: Her Paintings and Philosophy by Karen A. Bearor.

Women Artists News Book Review, 19 (spring), 37, 62.

Reviews Appearing in Books or Monographs

Mathews, N. M. (2001). Irene Rice Pereira. In American Dreams: American Art to 1950 in the

Williams College Museum of Art (pp. 167-169). New York: Hudson Hills Press.

Reviews Appearing in Magazines, Newspapers, or Newsletters

Dickinson, E. (2004, April). Roads Scholars or Committed Teachers? Women Are Rapidly

Expanding the Ranks of Adjunct Laborers Across the United States. Women's Caucus for

Art Artlines, n.p.

Cardenas, G. (1994, June). Irene Rice Pereira. Miami New Times, 33.

Johnson, D. J. (1994, June). Karen A. Bearor, Irene Rice Pereira: Her Paintings and Philosophy.

Choice, 91.


Kohen, H. L. (1994, June). At Lowe, Modernist Finally Gets Her Due. Miami Herald, 1G; 7G.

Service

Florida State University

FSU University Service

Member, President's Advisory Panel: University Namings and Recognitions (2017–2018).

Committee member, University Student Academic Relations Committee (2017–2018).

Faculty representative, Academic Honor Policy Hearing (2016).

Reviewer, CRC COFRS grant applications (2015–2016).



Member, Graduate Policy Committee subcommittee (2011–2012).

Reviewer, CRC COFRS grant applications (2010).

Member, Museum Studies Steering Committee (2000–2009).

Member, Executive Committee, American Studies Program (1999–2009).

Guest lecturer, Humanities Honors Colloquium (2008).

Member, Planning Committee, 33rd Annual Conference on Literature and Film (2007).

Member, Planning Committee, 32nd Annual Conference on Literature and Film (2006–2007).

Member, Planning Committee, 31st Annual Conference on Literature and Film (2005–2006).

Member, Planning Committee, 30th Annual Conference on Literature and Film (2005).

Executive Board Member, Association of Women Faculty and Administrators (2004–2005).

Member, Cinema and Visual Studies Planning Subcommittee, Curriculum Development

(2004–2005).

Member, Cinema and Media Studies Working Group (2003–2005).


Member, Executive Committee, Women's Studies Program (2000–2005).

Member, Planning Committee, 29th Annual Conference on Literature and Film (2004).

Participant, Provost's Council for Instruction (2001–2004).

Co-organizer, Art and Sciences Symposium, in honor of Jehanne Teilhet-Fisk, with Physics

Department (2003).

Guest lecturer, FOL 5934 (Modern Languages): Seminar on Contemporary Literary Criticism

(2000).

Member, Program Director Search Committee, American Studies Program (2000).

Member, Faculty Sabbaticals Committee (1999–2000).

Member, Advisory Committee, American Studies Program (1997–2000).

Member, Advisory Committee, Women's Studies program (1992–2000).

Member, Board of Directors, Friends of Strozier Library (1997–1999).

Co-Chair, Book Sale Committee, Friends of Strozier Library (1997–1998).

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee (1996–1997).

Member, Advisory Committee, Friends of Strozier Library (1995–1997).

Guest lecturer, FOL 5934 (Modern Languages): Seminar on Contemporary Literary Criticism

(1996).

Member, Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) (1995–1996).

Member, Planning Committee, Statewide Women's Studies Conference (1994).

Participant, Provost's strategy session on multicultural awareness (1994).

Member, Committee on Faculty Research Support (COFRS) (1993–1994).

Juror, Florida National Exhibition, Florida State University Gallery and Museum (1993).

Guest Lecturer, ART 5934: Graduate Workshop Seminar (1992).


FSU College Service

Senator, Faculty Senate Representative (2019–present).

Lecturer on Presidential Portraits, Artist's League, FSU MoFA (2019).

Representative of Department of Art History, College of Fine Arts Promotion and Tenure

Committee (2016–2018).

Faculty Senate Representatives, College of Fine Arts (2015–2017).

Faculty Representative, Graduation Ceremonies (2016).

Faculty Senate representative, College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance (2008–2011).

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee (2006).

Committee Consultant, Committee on Women in the Arts (2004–2005).

Invited Participant, CAA focus group on "transparency" in CAA governance (2004).

Chair, Committee on Women in the Arts (2002–2004).

Participant, GradPortal Initiative for recruitment of minority students (2003–2004).

Member, Graduate Policy Committee (2002–2003).

Member, Graduate Advisory Council, SVAD (2001–2002).

Liaison with Awards Banquet Honoree and Master of Ceremonies, Committee of Women in the

Arts, for CAA Annual Meeting (2001).

Member, Committee on Women in the Arts (1995–2001).

Participant, SVAD Planning Committee meetings (2000–2001).

Organizer, Awards Banquet, Committee on Women in the Arts, CAA Annual Meeting (2000).

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, School of Visual Arts and Dance (1996).

Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee, School of Visual Arts and Dance (1996).

Marshal, Graduation Ceremonies, School of Visual Arts and Dance (1993–1994).

Faculty Senate representative, School of Visual Arts and Dance (1993–1994).


FSU Department Service

member, Committee on diversity (2019–present).

Member, Graduate Studies Committee (2017–2018).

Member, P&T Committee (2017–2018).

Chair, Search Committee, Global Contemporary specialist (2017–2018).

Member, Ad hoc committee on departmental advertising and promotion (2016–2017).


Member, Undergraduate Studies Committee (2016–2017).

Member, Ad hoc committee for chair evaluation (2016).

Contributor, QER Report (2016).

Member, Advisory Committee (2015–2016).


Member, Ad hoc committee to revise faculty merit form (2014).

Member, Faculty Panel, UAHA Life after Graduation (2014).


Faculty Advisor, Undergraduate Art History Association (2011–2014).

Faculty Liaison, Undergraduate Honors (2011–2014).

Director, Undergraduate Studies (2011–2014).

Evaluator, Teaching Evaluation for Nicole Mahan, ARH 3057 (2011).


Departmental Representative, UPC for review of liberal studies, multiculturalism, and Gordon

Rule requirements (2010–2011).

Writer of the report and subsequent revisions, UPC Review Report (2010–2011).


Guest lecturer, "PowerPoint Presentations", Information Technology course (2010).

Member, P&T committee (2009–2010).


Evaluator, Peer Evaluation, Teaching, for Lynn Jones (2009).

Symposium coordinator, 27th Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium (2009).

Member, P&T committee (2008–2009).

Evaluator, Peer Evaluation, teaching, for Pauline Ota (2008).





Evaluator, Peer Evaluation, teaching, for Talinn Grigor (2007).

Member, Advisory Committee (2006–2007).

Member, Interviewing Committee, World Art position, CAA (2006).

Member, P&T committee (2006).


Supplied statements and revised syllabus, Undergraduate Policy Committee of the Faculty

Senate for the oral communication competency requirement (2006).

Member, Chair search committee, College Art Association (2005).

Prepared poster and online announcements, 23rd annual Art History Graduate Student

Symposium (2004).

Conducted, TA Orientation (2004).

Member, Asianist search committee, College Art Association (2004).

Faculty Advisor, Art History [Student] Association (2000–2004).


Symposium coordinator, 22nd Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium (2004).

Guest lecturer, ARH 3800 History of Photography (2003–2004).

Conducted, TA orientation (2003).

Member, Search Committee, Multiple Areas, College Art Association (2003).

Symposium Coordinator, 21st Annual Art History Graduate Student Symposium (2003).

Revisor, TA Handbook (2002).

Conductor, TA orientation (2002).

Member, Modernist and Asian search committees, at College Art Association (2002).

Member, Ad Hoc Committee on MA and PhD Curriculum Reform (2001–2002).

Advisor, Graduate Advisor (1999–2001).

Member, Latin Americanist Search Committee, at College Art Association (2000).

Advisor and Coordinator, Graduate Advisor and Graduate Admissions Coordinator (1997–1998).

Member, Asianist search committee, at College Art Association (1998).


Guest speaker, Art History [Student] Association (1997).

Organizer, Art History [Student] Association, Session on Applying to Graduate Schools (1997).


Departmental Editor, Internet Home Page (1996–1997).

Coordinator, Graduate Admissions (1996–1997).

Member, Graduate Handbook Committee (1996).

Chair, Teaching Incentive Program Nomination Committee (1996).

Member, Ad Hoc Curriculum Committee (1995–1996).

Chair, Art History [Student] Association, Roundtable Discussion (1995).


Member, Asianist search committee, at College Art Association (1995).


Member, Teaching Incentive Program Nomination Committee (1994).

Faculty Advisor, Art History [Student] Association, Bus Trip to High Museum, Atlanta (1994).


Member, Teaching Incentive Program NominationCommittee (1994).

Member, Merit Committee (1993).

The Profession

Guest Reviewer for Refereed Journals

Journal of Florida Studies (2012).

SECAC Review (Aug 2009).

Photography and Culture (May 2009).

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (2007).

National Women's Studies Association Journal,19.1 (Jun–Jul 2005).

Reviewer for Textbooks

American Encounters (2005).

Judge for an Exhibition

Florida National Exhibition. Florida State University Gallery and Museum (1993).

Exhibitions Curated

Origins. Florida State University Museum of Art and Strozier Library: TheFeministArtProject

(2006).


Irene Rice Pereira's Early Work: Embarking on an Eastward Journey. Lowe Art Museum,

University of Miami (1993–1994).

Chair of a Symposium

Bearor, K. A., & Picart, C. (Chair). (2008, January). 33rd Annual Conference on Literature and

Film: Cyborg Science and Virtual Materialities in Literature and Film. Symposium

conducted at the meeting of Florida State University, Florida State University.

Bearor, K. A., & Moore, D. (Chair). (2003, February). Regionalism in this Age of Globalization.

Symposium conducted at the meeting of Southeastern American Studies Association,

hosted by the Program in American and Florida Studies, FSU, FSU.

Reviewer or Panelist for Grant Applications

National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC (2015).

National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C (2006).

National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D.C (2004).

American Association of University Women Educational Foundation (1995–1999).

Service to Professional Associations

Advisory Board member, Journal of Florida Studies (2011–present).

Listserv owner and moderator, Amart listserv (the national listsev for Americanist art historians)

(2007–present).

[National and State] Coordinator for the state of Florida, Feminist Art Project (2007–2008).

Co-Moderator, AmArt listserv (the national listserv for Americanist art historians) (2006–2007).

[National and State] Co-Coordinator for the state of Florida, Feminist Art Project (2006–2007).

Chaired Panel, "Artist as Theorist," 31st Annual Conference on Literature and Film:

Documenting Trauma, Documenting Terror (2006).

Co-Chaired Panel, "Autobiographical Strategies: Politics and Poetics of Women's

Self-Representations in the Visual Arts.", College Art Association annual meeting

(2005).


Committee consultant, Committee on Women in the Arts, College Art Association (2004–2005).

Invited participant, Focus Group on Transparency in CAA Governance, College Art Association

(2004).

Chair, Committee on Women in the Arts, College Art Association (2002–2004).

Member, Media Panel, Visual Arts and Cultural History, for the National Endowment for the

Humanities, Humanities Projects in Media (2004).

Chaired Panel, American Art, Part II, Southeastern College Art Conference (2004).

Co-Chaired Panel, "Roads Scholars or Committed Teachers: Women as Adjunct Laborers.",

College Art Association annual meeting (2004).

Charied Panel, "Textuality and Interpretation", 29th Annual Conference on Literature and Film

(2004).

Treasurer, Association of Historians of American Art (2000–2003).

Liaison with Awards Banquet Honorree and Master of Ceremonies, Committ on Women in the

Arts, College Art Association (2001).

Member, Committee on Women in the Arts, College Art Association (1995–2001).

Chaired Panel, "Early 20th-Century American Art", Southeastern College Art Conference

(2001).

Co-Chaired Panel, "We Do 'Windows' and More: Women, Technology, and the Arts.", College

Art Association annual meeting (2001).

Organizer, Awards Banquet, Committee on Women in the Arts, College Art Association (2000).

Chaired Panel, "American Art: Contemporary Issues", Southeastern College Art Conference

annual meeting (2000).

Chaired Panel, "Immigration, 'Americanization,' and Labor in U.S. Visual Culture", College Art

Association annual meeting (1999).

Chaired Panel, "American Art: Open Session.", Southeastern College Art Conference annual

meeting (1998).

Member, Material Culture Caucus, American Studies Association (1997–1998).


On-line Advisor/Editor, Visual Resources Committee, American Studies Association Crossroads

Project (1997).

Co-Chair, Art Subcommittee, State University System of Florida, Faculty Discipline Committee

(1997).

Co-Chaired Panel, "U.S. Art and Popular Culture between the World Wars.", Southeastern

College Art Conference annual meeting (1995).

Service to Other Universities

External referee, Promotion to Title of Reader, University of Westminster, London (2010).

External Referee, Promotion and Tenure, New Mexico State University (2007).

German Expressionist Film Fest, organized and commentary, Department of Art, University of

Tennessee (1989).

Dada and Surrealist Film Fest, organized and commentary, Department of Art, University of

Tennessee (1989).

The Community

Volunteer Pledge Drive Host, WFSU (2017).



Volunteer pledge drive fundraiser, WFSU (2014).



Webmaster, Tallahassee Rowing Club (2004–2006).

President, Tallahassee Rowing Club (1998–1999).

Volunteer meal deliverer, Meals on Wheels (1995).


Consultation

Dialogues in South and North American Abstraction, 1920s–50s. Grant consultant: Reviewed the

grant proposal to the NEH for the curator of the exhibition (2008).

Dialogues in South and North American Abstraction, 1920s–50s. Scholar consultant

(2007–2008).

Curriculum Vitae Karen A. Bearor - Florida State University

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