EDUCATION

1994-1999 Northwestern University—Ph.D. Art History (1999)
1991-1994 University of British Columbia—Master of Arts, Fine Arts (1994)
1981-1986 University of British Columbia—Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts-Honors (1987)
1982-83 Building construction, British Columbia Institute of Technology
1980 Architecture School (first year), Queensland University

EMPLOYMENT

2007- Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory
2007- Adjunct Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
2000-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University
1998-1999 Lecturer, Renaissance Art and Culture, University of British Columbia
1996/1997 Lecturer, Renaissance Art, Northwestern University, summer session
1996 Lecturer, 20th-century Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago, summer session
1984-1994 Principal Designer, David Vance Design

ACADEMIC FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

2011-2013 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) Insight grant (principal investigator) Art, Materiality and Early Modern Globalization
2011-2012 SSHRC Insight Grant (co-investigator) Forms of Conversion
2011-2012 The Folger Shakespeare Library (two months)
2011-2012 The Newberry Library (one month)
2011 The Bogliasco Foundation—The Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities
2011 Kress Foundation Research Grant, Renaissance Society of America
2011-2014 SSHRC Research Grant—Journeys to Constantinople: inscription, the horizon and duration in early modern travel imagery
2008-2010 SSHRC Research Grant—Envisioning Constantinople: Topography, Inscription and the Horizon in early modern travel imagery
2005-2009 SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative (co-investigator)
Making Publics: Media, Markets, and Association in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700.
2003-2004 Villa i Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Hanna Kiel Fellow
2002-2005 Les Fonds de Recherche du Québec Research Grant
The Visual Culture of the Human Face in Northern Italy 1550-165-
2002-2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant
The Nature of Portraiture in Northern Italy 1550-1650
2003-2004 SSHRC Internal Grant
2001 New Researcher Grant
2001 Royal Bank teaching and learning Grant (McGill)
1999-2001 SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship

AWARDS/PRIZES

2010 Killam Teaching Prize in Graduate Instruction, 2010
2006 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Art History, 2006, for The World in Venice: print, the city, and
early modern identity (University of Toronto Press, 2005). Awarded from Sixteenth Century Studies Society

A specialist in the art and visual culture of Renaissance Italy, Wilson's current research explores early modern travel imagery and the Mediterranean. Interests include media and forms of visual imagery that blur the boundaries between categories and genres, and in which time is protracted or condensed.

Wilson’s teaching and research focuses on Italian Renaissance and early modern art, including portraiture, print culture, costume and cross-cultural encounters. She specializes in the history of Venetian art, the subject of The World in Venice: Print, the City, and Early Modern Identity (winner of the Roland H. Bainton prize for Art History in 2006) as well as a recently-completed book Facing Early Modernity: Portraits, Physiognomy, and Naturalism in Northern Italy, 1550-1650. Her interest in Venetian images of Turks and Turkish costume – on which she has published several important articles – has informed her current research project, which looks at Renaissance depictions of the Ottoman Empire.
           
Other recent  publications include Making Publics in Early Modern Europe: People, Things and Forms of Knowledge (2010, with Paul Yachnin) and The Erotics of Looking: Materiality, Solicitation and Dutch Visual Culture (2011, with Angela Vanhaelen).

Wilson has taught at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and McGill University, Montreal. She has held fellowships at the Villa i Tatti in Florence and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC, among other institutions in Europe and North America.

PUBLICATIONS

The Erotics of Looking: Netherlandish Visual Culture, co-edited with Angela Vanhaelen, Brill, 2013.

The Erotics of Looking: Materiality and Solicitation in Netherlandish Visual Culture, co-edited with Angela Vanhaelen, special issue of Art History, 2012.

Making Publics in Early Modern Europe: people, things, and forms of knowledge, co-edited with Paul Yachnin. Routledge, January 2010.

Facing Early Modernity: portraiture, naturalism, and physiognomy in Northern Italy, forthcoming.

The World in Venice: print, the city, and early modern identity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005

BOOKS IN PROGRESS

Journeys to Constantinople: Inscription and the horizon in early modern travel imagery

Materiality and Early Modern Globalization, co-edited with Angela Vanhaelen

BOOK CHAPTERS, ANTHOLOGIES

“New Forms and Uses of Geographical Knowledge: Mercator and the public life of maps and globes” In Gerhard Mercator: Wissenschaft und Wissenstransfer

“Inscription and the Horizon: Melchior Lorck’s Prospect of Constantinople (1559)”  In Vision and Knowledge in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, edited by Lynn Hunt and Ann Adams.
Submitted and under consideration with the University of Toronto Press

“Portraiture, Sincerity and the Ethics of Early Modern Conversation” In Heidegger and the Work of Art History, co-edited by Amanda Boetzkes and Aron Vinegar, Ashgate, 2013.

“Assembling the Archipelago: Early Modern Isolarii and the Horizons of Public Making” In Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe: Geography, Performance, Privacy. Vol II. Edited by
Angela Vanhaelen and Joe Ward. Routledge, 2013.

“Social Networking: the album amicorum and early modern public-making,” Oltre la sfera pubblica/ Beyond the public sphere: opinions, publics, spaces in Early Modern Europe, edited by Massimo Rospocher. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2012, 1-19.

“Francesco Lupazzolo’s Isolario (1638): the Aegean Archipelago and Early Modern Historical Anthropology,”  In Venice in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Patricia Fortini Brown, edited by Blake de Maria and Mary Frank. Milan: Five Continents, 2012.

“Visual Knowledge/Facing Blindness.”  In Seeing Across Cultures: visualities in the early modern period, edited by Dana Leibsohn and Jeanette Peterson. Ashgate, 2012, 97-123.

“Costume and the Boundaries of Bodies,” chapter two of The World in Venice Anthologized in Peter McNeil, Fashion, Berg, 2009.  Art Association of Australia and New Zealand prize for Best Edited Book, 2010.

“Introduction” with Paul Yachnin In Making Publics in early modern Europe: people, things and forms of knowledge, Routledge, 2010, 1-24.

“The Confusion of Faces: The Politics of Physiognomy, Concealed Hearts, and Public Visibility”  In Making Publics in early modern Europe: people, things and forms of knowledge, Routledge, 2010, 177-192.

“The Renaissance Portrait: from resemblance to representation”  In The Renaissance World, ed. John Martin. Routledge, 2007, 452-80.

“Turchi allo specchio: i libri dei ritratti veneziani” In Mediterra-noesis: voci dal medioevo e rinascimento mediterraneo, edited by Roberta Morosini and  Cristina Perissinotto, Turin: Salerno Editrice, 2007, 93-128ff.

“La dama del vergiù: secrecy, vendetta, and sexual blackmail in a late medieval bedroom.” In Firenze alla vigilia del Rinascimento, edited by Maria Predelli. Turin: Cadmo, 2006, 369-88.

JOURNALS

“The Work of Realism,” in The Erotics of Looking: Matter for Intercourse in Netherlandish Visual Culture, co-edited with Angela Vanhaelen, special issue of Art History, 2012.

“Introduction,” co-authored with Angela Vanhaelen in The Erotics of Looking: Matter for Intercourse in Netherlandish Visual Culture, co-edited with Angela Vanhaelen, special issue of Art History, 2012.

“Bedroom Politics: the vexed spaces of late medieval public making.” Collection responding to Michael McKeon's Secret History of Domesticity in History Compass and Literature Compass. On-line Journal.

“The Appeal of Horror: Francesco Cairo’s Herodias and the Head of John the Baptist” Oxford Art Journal, 2011, 355-72.

“Foggie diverse di vestire de’Turchi”: Turkish costume illustration and cultural translation” Journal of Medieval and Early Modern History, (January 2007): 95-138.

“Venice, Print, and the Early Modern Icon,” Urban History 33.1 (May 2006): 39-64. http://journals.cambridge.org/fulltext_content/supplementary/urban_icons_companion/index.htm

“Reproducing the Contours of Venetian Identity in Late Sixteenth-Century Costume Books,” Studies in Iconography (2004): 1-54

“Reflecting on the Turk in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Portrait Books” Word & Image 19, nos. 1&2 (January-June 2003):38-58

“‘Il bel sesso e l'austero Senato’: The Coronation of Dogaressa Morosina Morosini Grimani Renaissance Quarterly, 52 (Spring, 1999): 73-139

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

“Learning how to Read: physiognomy and portraiture and the end of the Renaissance,” Visual Knowledges on-line publication of conference proceedings, 2003
http://webdb.ucs.ed.ac.uk/malts/other/VKC/dsp-all-papers.cfm

OTHER

The Origins of the Modern Public, CBC.ca Ideas, broadcast 2010

Docent talk, script, and audio recordings for the Rijksmuseum exhibit in Vancouver, 2009 Catalogue Entry, “Giovanbattista Della Porta,” Osler Anniversary Publication, edited by Faith Wallis, McGill Queens Press, 2004

Report on Luke Syson’s talk on Leonardo, I Tatti Newsletter, 2004

Reconstruction drawings for Debra Pincus, The Tombs of the Doges of Venice, Cambridge, 2000

BOOK REVIEW ESSAYS

Oskar Bätschmann, Giovanni Bellini The Art Bulletin, October 2008

BOOK REVIEWS

James Harper, The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450–1750,  Renaissance Quarterly, forthcoming

Fischer et. al., Erik. Melchior Lorck. Copenhagen: The Royal Library; Vandkunsten Publishers, 2009. CAA Reviews, 2011

Iain Fenlon, The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice, Forthcoming

John Garton, Grace and Grandeur: The Portraiture of Paolo Veronese, Renaissance Quarterly 63 (Summer 2010): 606–608.

Creation Myths: childhood and art history. Review of Hubert Damisch: A Childhood Memory by Piero della Francesca. H-Net—Childhood, 2009, http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=911

Douglas Biow, The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy European History Quarterly, No.1 of Vol.39, 2009

Richard Cocke, Paolo Veronese: Piety and Display in an Age of Religious Reform Renaissance Quarterly, November, 2003

Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi and Gretchen A. Hirshauer, The Flowering of Florence:  Botanical art for the Medici, Choice, 2002

Alexander Nagel, Michelangelo and the Reform of Art Italian Politics and Society, Fall 2002

David Rosand, Myths of Venice; The Figuration of a State Choice, 2002

Patricia Meilman, Titian and the Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice  CAA on-line reviews, 2001

Gregory McIntosh, The Piri Reis Map of 1513 The Sixteenth Century Journal, Fall 2001

Bernadine Barnes, Michelangelo’s Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response. Studies in Iconography, 2000

Ennio Concina, A History of Venetian Architecture, The Sixteenth Century Journal, Spring, 1999.

 

Postdoctoral Student Supervision

Luke Nicholson, Emergent Classicism, Queer Difference and French painters in 17th-Century Rome

Marlene Eberhart, Renaissance Venice and the Senses. Vanier College/Dawson College, Montreal

Research Student Supervision

Miriana Carbonara, Borders Between Space and Representation: Maps of Bologna in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Lisa Andersen, Intermediality and Fantasia in Artistic Creation, Viewing and Reproduction in the Sixteenth Century

Ivana Vranic, “Thou Shalt Not”: Limits of Verisimilitude and Devotional Practices in Italian Terracotta Passion Groups (1450-1530)"

Michael Coughlin, Venetian Art and Architecture (1550-1600) and the Virtue of Prudence

Heather Muckart, Framing the Martyrs: Protestant Print and Portraiture in the English Wars of Religion

Joan Boychuk, Multum in Parvo: The Miniatures of Joris Hoefnagel and the Gathered Practices of Central European Court Culture

Krystel Chéhab, Picturing Sacred Things: Realism, Discernment and Engaño in Seventeenth-Century Spanish Still-Life Painting

Ivana Horacek, The Art of the Gift: objects, alchemy and geopolitics at the court of Rudolf II

Liana Bellon, Views of Venice: copies, tourism, and the spaces of the city (1500-1797) (McGill, co-supervision with Angela Vanhaelen)

Sonia del Re, Reproducibility in the Time of Caravaggio: The Caravaggesque school of Utrecht and the Public for Prints (McGill, co-supervision with Angela Vanhaelen).
Assistant Curator of European, American and Asian Prints and Drawings at National Gallery of Canada

Awarded

Nelda Damiano, Entre espaces de creation et reseaux de production: l'imagination inventive de Francesco Salviati (1510-1563), 2011 (McGill) Senior Project Manager, exhibitions division, National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa

Leah Clark, Value and Symbolic Practices: Objects, Exchanges, and Associations in the Italian Courts (1460-1500), 2009 (McGill, co-supervision with Angela Vanhaelen). Arts dissertation prize and the K.B. Jenckes Award. Henry G. Fairbanks Visiting Humanities Scholar-in-Residence Art History/Humanities, Saint Michael's College, Vermont