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Neville G. McFerrin

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Art History

College: College of Visual Arts and Design

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of Michigan, 2015
    Major: Classical Art and Archaeology
    Dissertation: The Art of Power: Ambiguity, Adornment, and the Performance of Social Position in the Pompeian House
  • BA, Oberlin College, 2008
    Major: Greek Language and Literature, Latin Language and Literature, Archaeological Studies
    Dissertation: Tria Cordia: Negotiations of Identity in Republican Samnium

Current Scheduled Teaching

ARTH 5849.705Art History Research ProjectFall 2024
ARTH 4803.001Art of Ancient RomeFall 2024 Syllabus
ARTH 4849.001Dress and Fashion in the Early Modern PeriodFall 2024 Syllabus
ART 5900.705Special ProblemsFall 2024
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ARTH 4848.705Art History Senior SeminarSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5847.001Seminar in Ancient Mediterranean ArtSpring 2024 SPOT
ART 5900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2024
ARTH 4847.001Topics in Ancient Mediterranean ArtSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5849.705Art History Research ProjectFall 2023
ARTH 4802.001Art of Ancient GreeceFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5801.003Topics in Art HistoryFall 2023 SPOT
ARTH 5847.001Seminar in Ancient Mediterranean ArtSpring 2023 SPOT
ARTH 5847.002Seminar in Ancient Mediterranean ArtSpring 2023 SPOT
ART 5900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2023
ARTH 4847.001Topics in Ancient Mediterranean ArtSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4803.001Art of Ancient RomeFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4849.001Dress and Fashion in the Early Modern PeriodFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4848.002Art History Senior SeminarSpring 2022 Syllabus
ARTH 5900.605Special ProblemsSpring 2022 SPOT
ARTH 5900.705Special ProblemsSpring 2022
ARTH 4801.005Topics in Art HistorySpring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5801.002Topics in Art HistorySpring 2022 SPOT
ARTH 5801.602Topics in Art HistorySpring 2022 SPOT
ARTH 4802.001Art of Ancient GreeceFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ART 5900.601Special ProblemsFall 2021
ARTH 4801.001Topics in Art HistoryFall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.001Topics in Art HistorySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 5801.002Topics in Art HistorySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 5801.602Topics in Art HistorySpring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2350.020Art History Survey IFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
ART 2350.026Art History Survey IFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4803.001Art of Ancient RomeFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
AEAH 4801.002Topics in Art HistoryFall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book Chapter

  • McFerrin, N.G. In the Presence of the King: The Construction of Courtly Protocol at Persepolis. Manners, Etiquette, and Protocols in the Ancient Near East. Leuven, Peeters Publishers.
  • McFerrin, N.G. Reciprocal Materialities: Seals, Sealings, and the Body of the King in Achaemenid Persia. The Routledge Companion to Seals and Seal Studies in Antiquity: New Approaches to Mediterranean and West Asian Visual Culture. New York, New York and London,
  • McFerrin, N.G. Women's Work: Dress, Craft, and the Re-Contextualization of the Parthenon Friezes. Pedagogical Reckoning: Decolonizing, Degendering, and Deconstructing the Western Art Historical Canon. Wilmington, DE, Vernon Press.
  • McFerrin, N.G. Dress and the Creation of Presence in Ancient Rome. Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Visual Culture. London, Bloomsbury.
  • McFerrin, N. Material Culture, Clothing and Consumer Practices. Beauty in the Ancient World (500 BCE-400 CE). Cultural History of Beauty, Volume I London, Bloomsbury.
  • McFerrin, N. (2021). A Sense of Scale: Proprioception, Embodied Subjectivities, and the Space of Kingship at Persepolis. Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East. 189-210. London, Routledge.
  • McFerrin, N. (2021). Andromeda Unbound: Possession, Perception, and Adornment in Pompeian Wall Painting. Dress in Mediterranean Antiquity. 215-228. London, Bloomsbury.
  • McFerrin, N. (2019). The Tangible Self: Embodiment, Agency, and the Functions of Adornment in Achaemenid Persia. Fashioned Selves: Dress and Identity in Antiquity. 231-246. London, Oxbow.
  • McFerrin, N. (2017). Fabrics of Inclusion: Deep Wearing and the Potentials of Materiality on the Apadana Reliefs. What Shall I Say of Clothes? Theoretical and Methodological Approaches to the Study of Dress in Antiquity.. Selected Papers on Ancient Art and Architecture III. 143-159. Boston, MA, Archaeological Institute of America.

    • Conference Proceeding

  • McFerrin, N. Beyond Binaries: Slippage and the Elision of Gendered Boundaries at Persepolis. Gender Methodologies in the Ancient Near East, Proceedings of the Fourth and Fifth Meetings of the Gender Methodologies in the Ancient Near East Workshop. Münster, Zaphon.
  • McFerrin, N. (2015). Flirting with Uncertainty: Mutability, Metamorphosis, and Fashionability in the Greco-Roman Imagination. Shapeshifting: Transformative Paradigms of Fashion and Textile Design. 1-15. Auckland, University of Auckland. https://core.ac.uk/reader/56365030

    • Journal Article

  • McFerrin, N. (2023). A Time for Fashion: Roman Pearls, Pompeian Paintings, and the Materials of Modernity. Fashion Studies. (Special Issue on Fashion Futures) 1-27. Toronto, Fashion Studies. https://www.fashionstudiesjournal.org/
  • McFerrin, N. Ambiguous Potentials: Dress and Knowledge in the House of Jason, Pompeii.
  • McFerrin, N. (2019). Masks, Mirrors, and Mediated Perception: Reflective Viewing in the House of the Gilded Cupids. Arts 2019, 8. (Special Issue on Ancient Mediterranean Painting, Volume 2) 1-17. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0752/8/3/83
  • McFerrin, N. (2014). Excavations at Acquachiara (Atessa), 2002-2009. Quaderni di Archeologia d'Abruzzo: Notizario della Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici dell'Abruzzo. (3) 143-159. Sesto Fiorentino, All'Insegna del Giglio. https://www.insegnadelgiglio.it/prodotto/quaderni-di-archeologia-dabruzzo-32011/
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