Phoebe Wolfskill
Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College, 2006-08
PhD University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006
MA University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2001
BA Emory University, 1997

e: Phoebe.Wolfskill@Dartmouth.edu
tel: 646-9211
office: 307 Carpenter

Courses Taught at Dartmouth
ARTH 2, Introduction to Art History II
ARTH 16/AAAS 88, History of African-American Art
ARTH 17/AAAS 87, Visual Arts of the Harlem Renaissance
ARTH 55, Late and Post Modern Art

Special Interests
The Harlem/Negro Renaissance, Identity politics
and cultural nationalism in Depression-era American art, Caricature and stereotype in African-American art, Gender politics and aesthetics of the Black Arts Movement, American art of the 1980s

Selected Publications

• Entry on Ernest Crichlow in Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, eds., African American National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. (forthcoming)

• “’You Must be Able to Laugh at Yourself:’ Reading Racial Caricature in the Work of Archibald Motley, Jr. and his Successors” In Black Humor, Irony, and Satire: Ishmael Reed, Satirically Speaking. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007.

• Jamming with the Man: Allen Stringfellow, A Retrospective. Exhibition catalogue. Urbana, Ill.: Krannert Art Museum, 2004.

• Entries on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Morris, Paul Mogensen, and Carol Seborovski in Drawings of Choice From a New York Collection. Exhibition catalogue. Urbana, Ill.: Krannert Art Museum, 2002. Distributed by University of Washington Press.

•“The Classical Work of Jacques Lipchitz” and “Jacques Lipchitz’s Art Dealers” in Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York. Exhibition catalogue. Urbana, Ill.: Krannert Art Museum, 2001. Distributed by University of Washington Press.