Faculty Profile

Neville 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 Title: 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 Title: Tria Cordia: Negotiations of Identity in Republican Samnium





          

        
                

          
Current Scheduled Teaching*


          
ARTH 5847.001, Seminar in Ancient Mediterranean Art, Spring 2023 Syllabus
ARTH 5847.002, Seminar in Ancient Mediterranean Art, Spring 2023 Syllabus
ART 5900.705, Special Problems, Spring 2023 Syllabus
ARTH 4847.001, Topics in Ancient Mediterranean Art, Spring 2023 Syllabus


          
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  Texas Education Code 51.974 (HB 2504) requires each institution of
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Previous Scheduled Teaching*


            
                    

                    ARTH 4803.001, Art of Ancient Rome, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 4849.001, Dress and Fashion in the Early Modern Period, Fall 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 4848.002, Art History Senior Seminar, Spring 2022 Syllabus
                    

                    ARTH 5900.605, Special Problems, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 5900.705, Special Problems, Spring 2022 Syllabus
                    

                    ARTH 4801.005, Topics in Art History, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

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

                    ARTH 5801.602, Topics in Art History, Spring 2022 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ARTH 4802.001, Art of Ancient Greece, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ART 5900.601, Special Problems, Fall 2021 Syllabus
                    

                    ARTH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Fall 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    AEAH 4801.001, Topics in Art History, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    AEAH 5801.002, Topics in Art History, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    AEAH 5801.602, Topics in Art History, Spring 2021 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ART 2350.020, Art History Survey I, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    ART 2350.026, Art History Survey I, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    AEAH 4803.001, Art of Ancient Rome, Fall 2020 Syllabus SPOT
                    

                    AEAH 4801.002, Topics in Art History, Fall 2020 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
  undergraduate lecture courses offered for credit by the institution.
  

        

      

    

  

  
  	

	

	  

		

		   
Published Publications



  

  
Published Intellectual Contributions


  
Book Chapter
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.  (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.  (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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