We are seeking an instructor for a single seminar on transnational art history for master’s degree students in curatorial practice, taught once a week on Monday afternoons for two hours for 15 weeks, from January 22 to May 6, 2024, with the potential to continue teaching the course in subsequent years. The class must be taught in person. Please do not apply if you cannot teach this in-person seminar at our location in Manhattan at the School of Visual Arts.
The candidate should have an MA or PhD in art history from an accredited university, must be fluent in English, and must be an American citizen or have a Green Card or a visa already in place to work in the United States. An art historian or a curator with appropriate academic credentials is a typical candidate. Prior teaching experience on the college level, and preferably the graduate level, is expected.
The current transnational seminar’s description reads: “This seminar is designed to meet two main objectives. First, to ground students in select yet defining histories of art since the Second World War and explore those legacies in discourses of 21st-century art. Second, to place established art theories in dialogue with artistic incongruities across culturally disparate but simultaneous histories. Within a transnational frame, a variety of concerns will be addressed, including abstraction, realism, decolonialism, minimalism, conceptualism, the archive, identity, body and performance, capital, witnessing, empathy, and solidarity. We will consider whether certain theoretical positions are germane to specific art-historical episodes of artists; how the project of trying to write the “other” into the canonical record is different from the project of Empire; and if art changed in fundamental ways after the Second World War, then how does the pivot differ when we look across borders? This seminar requires students to reckon with foundational ideas, grasp historiographical shifts across South-North and East-West, and draw on the lessons of artists and artworks of post-1945 art histories to grapple with contemporary artistic concerns.” Adjustments to content and readings are, of course, possible if appropriate.
Please send cover letter and CV to this email address: macp@sva.edu.
