Gwendolyn
DuBois
Shaw
University of Pennsylvania
3405 Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
ph: 215-898-2358
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Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw is Associate Professor of American Art at the University of Pennsylvania where she also serves as Director of the Program in Visual Studies. Dr. Shaw received her PhD from Stanford and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years before coming to the Penn in 2005. Her research and teaching focus on the art and material culture of the New World; from Moses Williams to Kara Walker; from Canada to the Caribbean to Cape Horn; and from Taos to Tahiti. She is interested in the role that visual culture plays in the conflicting histories that have arisen since the initial confluence of cultures that occurred when Columbus landed on the Island of Hispaniola in 1492.
NEWS
University of Washington:
This fall quarter Dr. Shaw will serve as the American Art History Endowed Professor in the art history department of the University of Washington.
New TV Series:
See Dr. Shaw on the new PBS series Art Through Time, look for episode 13 "Conflict and Resistance," now streaming online - and on TV soon!
Travel:
Join Dr. Shaw and Penn Alumni Travel for a fantastic trip to the Lesser Antilles aboard the six-star MV Silver Whisper, March 22-29, 2011.
Areas of Research
Dr. Shaw's first book, Seeing the Unspeakable: The Art of Kara Walker, was published by Duke University Press in the winter of 2004. Her second project, a museum exhibition and catalog, titled Portraits of a People: Picturing African Americans in the Nineteenth Century (2006) was organized with the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts before traveling to the Delaware Art Museum in Wilmington and the Long Beach Art Museum in California. Currently she is developing a book about visual culture and apocryphal history.
University of Pennsylvania
3405 Woodland Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
ph: 215-898-2358
