Stacey Sloboda Phone: 618/453-4987
Email: sloboda@siu.edu
Office location: Allyn Building 6D
Stacey Sloboda specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century European art. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Southern California in 2004. Along with a primary focus on eighteenth and nineteenth-century British art, her research interests include the history of decorative arts, aesthetic theory, collecting and consumption, and imperial culture. She teaches courses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century European art and visual culture at SIUC. She is currently writing a book manuscript, entitled Chinoiserie and the Aesthetics of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Articles:“The Grammar of Ornament: Cosmopolitanism and Reform in British Design,” Journal of Design History vol. 21 no. 3 (Fall 2008).
“Picturing China: William Alexander and the Visual Language of Chinoiserie,” British Art Journal vol. 9 no. 2 (Fall 2008).
“Porcelain Bodies: Gender, Acquisitiveness, and Taste in Eighteenth-Century England” in Collecting Subjects: The Visual Meanings and Pleasures of Material Culture in Britain, Alla Myzelev and John Potvin, eds. (Burlington VT: Ashgate, in press).
“Fashioning the Bluestocking Interior: Elizabeth Montagu’s ‘Empire of China’,” in The Architecture of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Denise Baxter and Meredith Martin, eds. (Burlington VT: Ashgate, in press).
“Displaying Materials: Porcelain in the Duchess of Portland’s Museum,” in Collecting Across Cultures in the Early Modern World, Daniela Bleichmar and Peter Mancall, eds., forthcoming.
Book Review of Owen Jones: Design, Ornament, Architecture, and Theory in an Age in Transition by Carol A. Hrvol Flores in Studies in the Decorative Arts vol. XIV no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2007).
Book review of Household Gods: The British and their Possessions by Deborah Cohen (Yale University Press, 2006) for Design and Culture (2009).
AD 101: Introduction to Visual Culture
AD 207c: Introduction to Art History III
AD 327: Aesthetics
AD 357/527: Nineteenth-Century Art
AD 437: Eighteenth-Century Art
AD 438: Writing About Art and Design
AD 497d: Special Topics: Vision, Culture, and Visual Culture
2009: Visiting Scholar, Yale Center for British Art
2006: Faculty Seed Grant, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2004: Final Year Dissertation Award, University of Southern California
2003: Pre-Doctoral Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, Samuel H. Kress Foundation
2003: Robert R. Wark Fellowship, The Huntington Library and Art Gallery
2001-2002: Borchard Foundation Fellowship for Overseas Research
Summer 2000: Victorian Society in America Fellowship
Summer 1999: Geoffrey Beard Fellowship, The Attingham Trust
1998-2002: Alma Mae Cook Scholarship, University of Southern California
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