
Schaefer, Sarah
Associate Professor, Modern Art
Art History
Curriculum Vitae
Degrees:
- PhD Columbia University, Art History, 2014
- MA Columbia University, Art History, 2009
- BA University of Michigan, History of Art, 2005
Research and Teaching Interests:
- 18th and 19th-century European visual cultures
- modern religious imagery
- technologies of reproduction
- display cultures
- art and revolution
- medieval revivalisms
Courses Taught:
- ARTHIST 102: Renaissance to Modern Art and Architecture
- ARTHIST 240: Introduction to Prints and Printmaking: History and Techniques
- ARTHIST 364: Modernism and the Avant-Garde, 1900-1960 [formerly Modern Painting II: 1900 to the Present]
- ARTHIST 365: History of Photography
- ARTHIST 465: Dada and Surrealism
- ARTHIST 499: J. R. R. Tolkien and the Art of Fantasy
- ARTHIST 760: Modern Print Culture: Objects and Audiences
- ARTHIST 760: Manet and the Making of Art History
Selected Publications:
- Gustave Doré and the Modern Biblical Imagination (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021)
- “Tolkien and the Manuscript Tradition: A Re-Collation,” in J. R. R. Tolkien: The Art of the Manuscript (Milwaukee: Haggerty Museum of Art, 2022), 15-24.
- “Bibles Unbound: The Material Semantics of Nineteenth-Century Scriptural Illustration,” Journal of Art Historiography 26 (June 2022)
Link: https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2022/05/schaefer.pdf - “Broken Guardians: The Lamassu and Fragmented Historical Vision in Nineteenth-Century France,” Word & Image 37, no. 1 (May 2021), 31-49.
- “Illuminating the Divine: The Magic Lantern and Religious Pedagogy in America, c. 1870-1920,” Material Religion: The Journal of Art, Objects and Belief 17, no. 3 (September 2017), 275-300.