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Carey C. Gibbons

Title: Assistant Professor

Department: Art History

College: College of Visual Arts and Design

Curriculum Vitae

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Education

  • PhD, University of London - Courtauld Institute of Art, 2016
    Major: History of Art
    Specialization: Victorian illustration
    Dissertation: The Limits of the Body in Victorian Illustration: Arthur Hughes and Frederick Sandys
  • MA, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2010
    Major: History of Art
    Specialization: Course: “The Aesthetic Body: Science, Aestheticism, and the Image of the Body in British Art, 1860-1900,” taught by Dr. Caroline Arscott
    Dissertation: Possibility and Instability in the Paintings of Evelyn De Morgan
  • BA, Columbia University, 2003
    Major: Art History

Current Scheduled Teaching

ARTH 4848.001Art History Senior SeminarFall 2024 Syllabus

Previous Scheduled Teaching

ARTH 4842.001History of Communication DesignSpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4801.006Topics in Art HistorySpring 2024 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4801.002Topics in Art HistoryFall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5801.002Topics in Art HistoryFall 2023 SPOT
ARTH 4842.001History of Communication DesignSpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4801.006Topics in Art HistorySpring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 4801.002Topics in Art HistoryFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
ARTH 5801.002Topics in Art HistoryFall 2022 Syllabus SPOT

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Blog Post

  • Gibbons, R.C. (2020). Transcending Advertising. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2020/02/19/transcending-advertising/
  • Book Chapter

  • Gibbons, R.C. (2023). ‘The Great Within’: The Illustrations of Jessie Marion King. Nineteenth-Century Women Illustrators and Cartoonists, edited by Joanna Devereux. 23. Manchester, Manchester University Press.
  • Gibbons, R.C. (2022). "The Result of an Experiment": Evelyn De Morgan and Automatic Writing. Pre-Raphaelite Sisters: Art, Poetry and Female Agency in Victorian Britain, edited by Glenda Youde and Robert Wilkes. 35 pages. Oxford, Peter Lang.
  • Gibbons, R.C. (2021). Grasping the Elusive: Victorian Weather Forecasting and Arthur Hughes’s Illustrations for George MacDonald’s At the Back of the North Wind. Victorian Science and Imagery: Representation and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, edited by Nancy Rose Marshall. 40 pages. Pittburgh, PA, University of Pittsburgh Press.
  • Book Review

  • Gibbons, R.C. (2022). Book Review of Picture World: Image, Aesthetics, and Victorian New Media by Rachel Teukolsky. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. 21 (3) https://doi.org/10.29411/ncaw.2022.21.3.17
  • Interview and Digital Art History Project

  • Gibbons, R.C., Gibbons, R.C., Steinkraus, E., McLeod, A. (2021). "Impossible Garden": A Contemporary Artist’s Digital Engagement with Women Artist-Naturalists of the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond. Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide. 20 (3) https://doi.org/10.29411/ncaw.2021.20.3.29
  • Newsletter

  • Gibbons, R.C. (2022). Hidden Treasures of Pre-Raphaelite Drawing and Illustration at The Morgan Library. (Winter 2022 Newsletter) Historians of British Art Newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/6549219c8db4/hba-winter-newsletter-4993618

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Gibbons, R.C. (Principal), "Morgan Library & Museum Drawing Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellowship," sponsored by The Morgan Library & Museum, Other, $40500 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
  • Grant - Research

  • Gibbons, R.C. (Co-Principal), Odumosu, T. (Co-Principal), "Digital Project Grant for "Annotating The New Union Club: Anti-racist Ethics and Curation for Digital Art Histories"," sponsored by Paul Mellon Centre, International, $29274 Funded. (2024 - 2025).
  • Gibbons, R.C. (Principal), "Association for Art History Grant," sponsored by Association for Art History, Private, $565 Funded. (2020 - 2022).
  • Gibbons, R.C. (Principal), "Mellon Faculty Grant," sponsored by Pratt Institute, Private, $250 Funded. ( - 2022).
  • Gibbons, R.C. (Principal), "College Art Association Registration Support Grant," sponsored by College Art Association, Private, $250 Funded. ( - 2021).
  • Gibbons, R.C. (Principal), "British Association for Victorian Studies Hardship Grant," sponsored by British Association for Victorian Studies, Private, $490 Funded. ( - 2021).
  • Gibbons, R.C. (Principal), "Mellon Faculty Grant," sponsored by Pratt Institute, Private, $219 Funded. ( - 2021).
  • Gibbons, R.C. (Principal), "Mellon Faculty Grant," sponsored by Pratt Institute, Private, $250 Funded. ( - 2020).
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    This rating represents the combined responses of students to the four global summative items and is presented to provide an overall index of the class’s quality. Overall summative statements include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 5 = Excellent, 3 = Good, and 1= Very poor):
    • The course as a whole was
    • The course content was
    • The instructor’s contribution to the course was
    • The instructor’s effectiveness in teaching the subject matter was
  • Challenge and Engagement Index:
    This rating combines student responses to several SPOT items relating to how academically challenging students found the course to be and how engaged they were. Challenge and Engagement Index items include the following (response options include a Likert scale ranging from 7 = Much higher, 4 = Average, and 1 = Much lower):
    • Do you expect your grade in this course to be
    • The intellectual challenge presented was
    • The amount of effort you put into this course was
    • The amount of effort to succeed in this course was
    • Your involvement in course (doing assignments, attending classes, etc.) was
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