CURRICULUM VITAE

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EDUCATION

Ph.D. (Art History), Columbia, 1973
M.Litt. (Philosophical Aesthetics), Trinity College Dublin, 2001
M.A. (Art History), Columbia, 1965
A.B. (Art History and English), Columbia, 1963

TEACHING
Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
Professor Emeritus of Art History, 20 17 onwards
Professor of Art History, 1994-2017
Curatorial Consultant, Hofstra Museum; Coordinator/director,
Graduate Humanities Program, c. 1990-2003
Associate Professor of Art History, 1987-1994

Fordham University, New York
Adjunct Professor of Art History, spring and autumn 2003

Columbia University, New York
Visiting Professor of Art History, Summer Session, 2002

Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Lecturer on Visual Studies, 1983-86

Hunter College, City University of New York
Visiting Professor of Art, spring and autumn 1984

Barnard College, and the Graduate School, Columbia University, New York
Assistant Professor of Art History, 1973-83
Instructor in Art History, 1971-73

RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

University of Cambridge, St. Edmund’s College
Visiting Fellow, Lent and Easter terms in 2011; and also Lent and
Easter terms in 2015

University of Cambridge, St John’s College
Visiting scholar, Lent and Easter terms in 2005

The Malevich Society
Research grant, 2003

University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh College of Art
Centenary Fellow, 1999-2011

Edward Albee Foundation, Montauk, Long Island, New York
Writer’s residencies: August 1980, August 1981

Columbia University, New York
Society of Fellows in the Humanities, Columbia University.
Fellowship 1977-78; member to 1983

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship, 1977

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

College Art Association
Distinguished Lifetime Achievement for Writing on Art
Committee, 2020-22
Frank Jewett Mather Award Committee, 1998-2000
International Association of Art Critics
Royal Historical Society (F.R.Hist.S.)

EDITORSHIP

Artforum magazine
Editor-in-chief, 1977-80

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Art in Translation (on-line; Berg Publishers [London])
Advisory board, 2009-present

The Brooklyn Rail
Consulting editor, 2004–present

Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, New York
Rubin Museum of Art consultative committee (National Endowment for the Humanities), January 2001

Annals of Scholarship

        Advisory board, 1998-2016

Art in America

        Contributing editor, 1987-2012

Boston Review
‘Art’ column, 1985-87

AWARD

College Art Association
Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Art, 2018