Faculty Profiles
Tiffany Johnson Bidler
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Education
PhD, University of Minnesota
MA, University of Minnesota
BA, Vassar College
Research Interests
- Contemporary art
- American art
- Film
Courses Recently Taught
- ART 241: Art History Survey I
- ART 242: Art History Survey II
- ART 343: History of Photography
- ART 344: Film History and Analysis
- ART 345: Modern Art and Design
- ART 350: Alternative Media: Art from 1945-1989
- ART 354: Picturing Biodiversity: The Art of Natural History
- ART 356: Environment in Contemporary Art
- ART 486: Dark Romanticism: The Gothic Imagination in Art
Professional Experience
- Saint Mary's College, Moreau Art Galleries, director, 2012-2015
Creative and Scholarly Work
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Ecocriticism and Iconography in the Work of Simone Leigh [provisional title]. New York, NY: Routledge, forthcoming 2026.
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“Thomas Eakins’s Portrait of Professor Benjamin Howard Rand and Scientific Performance on Color, Light, and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia” Nineteenth Century Studies (November, 2024).
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"Interiority, Metamorphosis, and Simone Leigh’s Hybrid Cowries" Arts 13, no. 2: 56 (February, 2024)
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“Suicide and Survival in the Work of Kara Walker.” Women’s Studies Quarterly 44, 1&2 (Spring/Summer 2016)
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“Ornament’s Performance of Parergonality in the Engraving of Anton Würth.” Word and Image 32, 1 (June 2016)
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“Interplay: The Sculpture of Joe Meiser and Krista Hoefle.” Exhibition essay for Krista Hoefle and Joe Meiser: Screen Between, March 19-June 26, 2016, South Bend Museum of Art, South Bend, Indiana (Spring 2016)
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“Ornament Doesn't Need Little Flowers: Anton Würth and Engraving in the 21st Century.” Exhibition review of Ornament Doesn't Need Little Flowers: Anton Würth and Engraving in the 21st Century, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, Art in Print (May/June 2014)
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“An Appetite for the Maternal: Reading Boyishly and the Unmaking of Effeminophobia.” Book review of Reading Boyishly: Roland Barthes, J.M. Barrie, Jacques Henri Lartigue, Marcel Proust, and D.W. Winnicott, by Carol Mavor, Art History 34 (June 2011).
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“Bodies of Evidence: Inquest Photography in the Trial of Lizzie Borden.” In Murder on Trial: 1620-2002, edited by Robert Asher, Lawrence B. Goodheart, and Alan Rogers, 235-271. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005.