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Marsha Morton
Professor
Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; M.A.,
University of Chicago Marsha Morton’s primary area of
research is 19th-century German art, with published
articles on interdisciplinary topics in Neoclassicism,
Romanticism, Biedermeier, Impressionism, and
Symbolism. She is currently finishing a book on the
printmaker Max Klinger that explores his art within
the context of Darwinism, anthropology, psychology,
and the grotesque. Morton’s books include The Arts
Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth
Century (Garland, 2000) and Pratt and Its Gallery: The
Arts and Crafts Years (1998). She has served as the
secretary of HGCEA (Historians of German and Central
European Art) since 2005.
Joyce Polistena
Adjunct AssociAte Professor
Ph.D., M.Phil., CUNY; TESOL, Columbia University; Joyce
C. Polistena has published articles in Religion and the
Arts, The Van Gogh Museum Journal, Italian Americans
and the Arts and Culture. Dr. Polistena has presented
several papers at The College Art Association, also The
Museum of Biblical Art, The North East Popular Culture
Association, and many scholarly venues. Her current
work is focused on Eugéne Delacroix, and Nineteenth-
Century European and American Art. She has been
a member of the faculty at Pratt Institute since 1997,
where she teaches a variety of courses in 19th–20th-
Century Art.
Katarina Posch
Acting chAir, AssociAte Professor
M.A., University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria; Ph.D.,
National University of Fine Arts and Music, Tokyo,
Japan; publications: Design: Isamu Noguchi and Isamu
Kenmochi (Noguchi Museum, New York, 2007); “About
Creativity” (Querdenker Magazin 2007, European Forum
Alpbach 2007, the University of Applied Sciences,
Salzburg, 2007); Isamu Noguchi–Sculptural Design
(Vitra Design Museum, Germany, 2001); curatorial work
for the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Vitra Design
Museum in Germany, and the Noguchi Museum in NYC.
Vanessa Rocco
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
Ph.D., The Graduate Center, CUNY; B.A., School of
International Service at American University; Vanessa
Rocco is Assistant Curator of the International Center
for Photography (ICP) She has organized several
exhibitions and publications at ICP, including Expanding
Vision: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s Experiments of the
1920s (2004), Rise of the Picture Press: Photographic
Reportage in Illustrated Magazines, 1918–39 (2002),
and Modernist Photography from the Daniel Cowin
Collection (2005). Her reviews and articles about
photography have also appeared in SF Camerawork
and Afterimage, among other places. Her most
recent publication is The New Woman International,
Representations in Photography and Film from the
1870s through the 1960s, co-edited with Elizabeth Otto
(Ann Arbor: UMP, 2011).Ann Schoenfeld
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., University of California, Berkeley; M.A., University
of Chicago; Ph.D., City University of New York, Graduate
Center; recipient of CUNY Dissertation Fellowship, Pratt
Institute Faculty Development Fund grant; lecturer,
SUNY, Purchase; nominator, Joan Mitchell Foundation
for Painting and Sculpture; curator, “Get Close,”
Marymount Manhattan College gallery; published in
Arts Magazine, I.D., Eye.Dorothy Shepard
Adjunct Professor
Ph.D., Bryn Mawr College; B.A., Sweet Briar College;
M.A., Southern Methodist University; Specialist in
Medieval Art, especially Romanesque manuscripts;
author of Introducing the Lambeth Bible (2007); AAUW
American Fellowship; Haakon Traveling Fellowship;
invited lectures include College Art Association (1998),
Medieval Academy (2000); Symposia on the History
of the Bible (1995–2000), International Congress of
Medieval Studies, Frick Symposium (1987).Jack Toolin
Visiting AssistAnt Professor
B.F.A., Ohio University; M.F.A. San Jose State University;
an artist working in new media, digital imaging,
and performance, who also teaches at Polytechnic
Institute at NYU and lectures at Rhode Island School
of Design and University of California at Berkeley; his
work considers contemporary life in light of changing
political, economic, and technological landscape.Borhua Wang
Adjunct AssistAnt Professor
B.A., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, ROC;
M.A., University of Kansas, Lawrence; Ph.D., Columbia
University, NYC. Specializes in Chinese painting and
calligraphy, in particular of the Song dynasty. Other
areas of research: Contemporary Chinese Art, Buddhist
Art of Southeast Asia, and Western art theory. Curator of
Contemporary Korean Art, Abstract Chinese Art, Taipei
Fine Art Museum. Presented “Pan Yuliang’s Life and Art:
Alienation to Freedom of Expression,” CAA, 2001.Steven Zucker
Visiting AssociAte Professor
B.A., Bard College; M.A., Hunter College, City University
of New York; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City University
of New York. Specialist in 20th Century Art and Theory;
co-founder and executive editor, Smarthistory.org;
Selected publications: “Confrontations with Radical
Evil: The Ambiguity of Myth and the Inadequacy of
Representation,” Art History, “The Slide Library: A
Posthumous Assessment in the Service of Our Digital
Future,” Teaching Art History with Technology: Case
Studies; Selected Awards: Samuel H. Kress Foundation
grants, 2009 Webby Award for Education, SUNY
Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching; Selected
Papers: CAA, AAM, ICOM, “Museums and the Web,”
Associazione Nazionale Insegnanti di Storia dell’Arte.