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Donna M. Cassidy

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Donna M. Cassidy is Professor of American & New England Studies and Art History at the University of Southern Maine. (Ph.D., Boston University)

Her articles on early twentieth-century American art and culture have appeared in Smithsonian Studies in American Art, American Art Journal, Winterthur Portfolio, and numerous anthologies and exhibition catalogues. She is the author of Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997) and Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation (University Press of New England, 2005). A scholar of New England art, she served as editor for the art section of the Encyclopedia of New England Culture (Yale University Press, 2005), and her essay "Picturing Place: Portland and the Visual Arts" appears in Creating Portland: History and Place in Northern New England, edited by Joseph A. Conforti and published by the University Press of New England (2005). She was awarded the USM Trustee Professorship for 2005-2006 for a new research project, Transnationalism, Region, and American Modernist Art which will examine American artists' artistic and cultural experiences in southern France, Canada, Ireland, and Denmark in the early twentieth century.