Faculty Profile

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





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
ARTH 4842.001, History of Communication Design, Spring 2024 Syllabus
ARTH 4801.006, Topics in Art History, Spring 2024 Syllabus


          
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    ARTH 4801.002, Topics in Art History, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 5801.002, Topics in Art History, Fall 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 4842.001, History of Communication Design, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 4801.006, Topics in Art History, Spring 2023 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 4801.002, Topics in Art History, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 5801.002, Topics in Art History, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT

          


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
  higher education to make available to the public, a syllabus for
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Published Publications



  

  
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



	
		
		
	  

	

	

  
    
	

	

	  

		

		   
Awarded Grants



  
  
  	  
          
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. (October 2022 – June 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. (February 2024 – August 2025).
Gibbons, R. C. (Principal), "Association for Art History Grant," Sponsored by Association for Art History, Private, $565 Funded. (November 30, 2020 – May 30, 2022).
Gibbons, R. C. (Principal), "Mellon Faculty Grant," Sponsored by Pratt Institute, Private, $250 Funded. (May 2, 2022).
Gibbons, R. C. (Principal), "College Art Association Registration Support Grant," Sponsored by College Art Association, Private, $250 Funded. (December 23, 2021).
Gibbons, R. C. (Principal), "British Association for Victorian Studies Hardship Grant," Sponsored by British Association for Victorian Studies, Private, $490 Funded. (March 30, 2021).
Gibbons, R. C. (Principal), "Mellon Faculty Grant," Sponsored by Pratt Institute, Private, $219 Funded. (March 26, 2021).
Gibbons, R. C. (Principal), "Mellon Faculty Grant," Sponsored by Pratt Institute, Private, $250 Funded. (April 14, 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):
				
      
					
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