John Singer Sargent, Miss Beatrice Townsend (1882).
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

 

Associate Professor of Modern Art History

Undergraduate Appointment: Department of Visual Studies (UTM)

Graduate Appointment: Department of Art (St. George)

Cross-Appointments and Affiliations: Centre for the Study of the United States
 

Contact

alison.syme@utoronto.ca

905-828-4877

CCT 3027, UTM

 

Education

PhD in Art History from Harvard University, 2005

MA in Art History from Harvard University, 1999

Hon BA in Literary Studies and Art History from the University of Toronto, 1996

Biography

I teach eighteenth-, nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art history and visual culture, with an emphasis on metaphors of artistic practice and materials.

Current Research Projects

I am currently working on a book on Edward Burne-Jones and Victorian visual culture.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate

FAH360  Art and Visual Culture of the Eighteenth Century

FAH460  Art and Animation

FAH288  Art of the Earlier Twentieth Century

FAH287  European Art of the Nineteenth Century

FAH388  Theory in Art History

FAH457  Exile and Expatriation in Modern Art

FAH379  Science and Art in the Modern Period

Graduate

FAH1486  Bloomsbury and Vorticism

FAH 1478 Art and Animation

Select Publications

Books

A Touch of Blossom: The Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010)

Essays

“Love Among the Ruins: David Cannon Dashiell’s Queer Mysteries,” Art Journal 63.4 (Winter 2004): 80-95.