Ph.D. University of Chicago, 2000
Assistant Professor of Art History and Archaeology
and Women and Gender Studies
Fields:
Professor DeRoo’s interests are interdisciplinary, and her courses include modern and contemporary art; photography and film; theory and criticism; artists' exhibition practices; and gender studies. (c.v.)
Research
Professor DeRoo’s book, The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art (Cambridge University Press, 2006) explains how the protests that shook France in 1968—the largest insurrections in the modern West—triggered a radical reconsideration of artistic practice and exhibition display that has shaped both art and museums up to the present. Her book received the Laurence Wylie Prize for the best book published in the field of French cultural studies, 2006-2008 (reviews). Her current book project, Agnès Varda, Feminism, and The New Wave, reveals the influential French filmmaker’s complex visual rhetoric and participation in progressive, trans-Atlantic feminist debates.
Professor DeRoo's grants and awards include a residency at the French National Institute of Art Historians, a Killam postdoctoral fellowship, a Fulbright Fellowship for research in France, an award from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award from the Washington University Graduate Student Senate, and a Rhoades Foundation Fellowship through which she curated the “Beyond the Photographic Frame” exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago
Recent publications
“Confronting Contradictions: Genre Subversion and Feminist Politics in Agnès Varda’s One Sings, The Other Doesn’t,” Modern and Contemporary France, forthcoming August 2009.
“Unhappily Ever After: Visual Irony and Feminist Critique in Agnès Varda’s Le bonheur” Studies in French Cinema 8.3, Fall 2008: 189-209. (pdf)
The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France after 1968 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). (link)
Chapter 4 “Annette Messager’s Images of the Everyday: The Feminist Recasting of ’68,” excerpt reprinted in The Everyday, ed. by Stephen Johnstone. (MIT Press: 2008): 164-169.
"Boltanski's Display at the Documenta 5: Personal or Cultural Memory?" Orientations: Space/Time/Image/Word, ed. by Claus Clüver, Véronique Plesch, and Leo Hoek (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2005): 125-139.
"Christian Boltanski's Memory Images: Remaking French Museums in the Aftermath of '68," Oxford Art Journal 27.2 (Fall 2004): 219-238. (pdf)
"Colonial Collecting: Women and Algerian cartes postales," Parallax, 4:2 (April 1998): 145–157. (pdf)
Reprinted as:
"Colonial Collecting: French Women and Algerian cartes postales," Postcards:
Ephemeral Histories of Modernity, ed. by David Prochaska and Jordana Mendelson (Univ. Park, PA: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, forthcoming, 2009).
"Colonial Collecting: French Women and Algerian cartes postales," Colonialist
Photography: Imag(in)ing Race and Place, ed. by Gary Sampson and Eleanor Hight (New York: Routledge, 2002, reprinted in 2004): 159-171.
Recent Papers Delivered
“The Aesthetics of Confrontation: Agnès Varda’s One Sings, The Other Doesn’t,” Society for the Study of French History Conference, Aberystwyth University, July 2008.
“Labor of Love: Domestic Space and Housewives’ Work in Agnès Varda’s Le bonheur,” The Society for Cinema and Media Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, March 2008.
“Unhappily Ever After: Agnès Varda’s Happiness and the Myth of the Loving Housewife,” College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 2007.
Recent Grants and Awards
Laurence Wylie Prize for best book in the field of French Cultural Studies, 2006-2008.
The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art was selected from among 57 nominated books written by both junior and senior scholars from a broad spectrum of fields in the humanities and social sciences. (Wylie Prize)
Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award, Washington University Graduate Student Senate, 2008.
Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA), Paris, Summer, 2006.
Research Scholar in residence at French National Institute of Art History.
Hampton Research Grant in the Humanities and Social Sciences ($80,000), 2001-2002;
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Grant (SSHRC) ($10,000), 2001-2002.
Co-authored grants for two international conferences.
Washington University Faculty Research Grants, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008.
Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of British Columbia, 2000-2001.
For research on gender in European and North American contemporary art movements.
Departmental Service for the 2008-2009 academic year:
Minor Advisor
For departmental minor guidelines, go to
http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~artarch/sections/undergraduate/undergraduate_minor.html
Study Abroad Advisor
For departmental study abroad guidelines, go to
http://artsci.wustl.edu/~artarch/sections/undergraduate/study_abroad.html
Courses:
Introductory (Large Lecture Class)
Introduction to Modern Art
Lecture Classes
Documents and Documentary in Photography and Film (multi-media class)
Gender in Contemporary Art (cross-listed with Gender Studies and American Culture Studies)
Modern Art, Theory, and Criticism, 1905-1960 (cross-listed with European Studies)
Since 1960: Art, Criticism, and Theory (cross-listed with American Culture Studies)
Seminars
Feminist Art and Theory, 1970 to the Present (cross-listed with Gender Studies and
American Culture Studies)
Contemporary Art in Exhibition (cross-listed with American Culture Studies)
Contemporary Art in France
Reframing Feminist Art of the 1970s (cross-listed with Gender Studies and American Culture Studies)
Professor DeRoo may be contacted at rderoo@wustl.edu
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