Dana
Szafranski
School of Art & Art History
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School of Art and Art History
College of Fine Arts
University of Florida
Research Interests:
18th and 19th Century European Art, Gender Studies, Colonialism, Orientalism
Research Biography:
Dana Szafranski's research is focused on the art of 18th and 19th century France and Britain. She is interested in gender studies and the relationship of art to colonialism, ethnography, and capitalism. While pursuing her MA at the University of Florida, Dana is currently researching the impact of gender on the politics of 18th century sugar plantations in the British West Indies and how landscape was used to either perpetuate or subvert imperial practices. Her past research topics include the structuring of experience at the Great Exhibition of 1851 and Eugène Delacroix's paintings of Oriental subjects.
Degrees:
Master of Arts, Art History, University of Florida, 2012
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honors, Art History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2010
Key Professional Appointments:
2010-2011 Graduate Assistant, School of Art and Art History
2010-2011 Vice President, Graduate Art Association
Presentations:
“The Mass-Production of Individual Experience at the Great Exhibition of 1851” 2010 Undergraduate Research Symposium, session Staging and Structuring Experience, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, April 2010
“The Limitations of Saidian Orientalism Demonstrated Through the Work of Eugène Delacroix” Seventh Annual Undergraduate Art History Symposium, Presented by Case Western Reserve University at the Cleveland Museum of Art, March 2010
SelectedWorks:
“Wünderkammer Redefined: The Work of Sculptor and Ceramicist Hanako O'Leary” B.F.A. Graduate Catalog, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, May 2010
Awards:
2010 Departmental Distinction of Honors, B.F.A. Senior Honors Thesis in Art History, University of Illinois
Thesis Topic: Limitations of Saidian Orientalism and the paintings of Eugène Delacroix
Thesis Advisor: Professor David O'Brien
Secondary Reader: Professor David Prochaska
2008 -2010 James Scholar, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois
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