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Curriculum Vitae: Donna M. Cassidy

Education

  • Ph.D., 1988, Art History, Boston University
  • M.A., 1982, Art History, Boston University
  • B.A., 1979, American Studies, University of Massachusetts (Lowell)

College or University Positions

  • Director, American & New England Studies, University of Southern Maine, Spring 2003
  • Professor, American & New England Studies and Art History, USM, 2002-
  • Acting Director, American & New England Studies Program, USM, Spring 2002
  • Chair, Art Department, USM, 1998-2000
  • Co-Chair, Art Department, USM, 1997-98
  • Associate Professor, American & New England Studies and Art History, USM, 1993-2002
  • Assistant Professor, Art History & New England Studies, USM, 1987-1993

Selected Recent Publications

Books

  • Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation (University Press of New England, 2005)
  • Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997)

Articles, Essays, Entries

  • "The Invisibility of Race and Modernist Representation: A Case Study of Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic Folk," in Between High and Low: Representing Social Conflict in American Visual Culture, ed. Patricia A. Johnston (University of California Press, forthcoming 2005)
  • "Overview: Art," "Modernism and New England Art," and "Marsden Hartley," in Encyclopedia of New England Culture, eds. Burt Feintuch and David Watters (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2005) (Consultant for Art section)
  • "Localized Glory: Marsden Hartley as New England Regionalist," in Marsden Hartley, American Modern, ed. Elizabeth Kornhauser (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, and New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2003), pp. 175-92.
  • "Jazz Representation and Early 20th-Century American Culture: Race, Ethnicity, and National Identity," in Music and Modern Art, ed. James Leggio (New York: Routledge, 2002), pp. 203-25.
  • "Seeing Musically: The Meanings of Music in 20th-Century American Art," in Jazz: An American Muse (Winston-Salem, NC: Reynolda House Museum of American Art, 2000), pp. 4-26.
  • "Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic Folk: Constructing the Northern Race and the New American," in Ceremonies and Spectacles: Performing American Culture, eds. Teresa F.A. Alves, Teresa Cid, and Heinz Ickstadt (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 2000), pp. 333-47.
  • Essays on Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Marguerite Zorach, and William Zorach, in Pamela J. Belanger, Maine in America: American Art at the Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland, Maine: Farnsworth Art Museum and University Press of New England, 2000), pp. 124-27, 136-39, 244-46.
  • "Competing Notions of American and Artistic Identity in Visual and Written Autobiographies of the 1930s and Early 1940s," in Writing Lives: American Biography and Autobiography, eds. Hans Bak and Hans Krabbendam (Amsterdam: VU University Press, 1998), pp. 63-74.
  • "On the Subject of Nativeness: Marsden Hartley and New England Regionalism," Winterthur Portfolio 29, no. 4 (1994): 227-45.
  • "John Marin's Dancing Nudes by the Seashore: Images of the New Eve," Smithsonian Studies in American Art 4, no. 1 (Winter 1990): 70-91.
  • "Arthur Dove's Music Paintings of the Jazz Age," American Art Journal 20, no. 1 (1988): 4-23.

Selected Papers and Lectures

  • "Yankee Queer': Marsden Hartley's Maine Folk and Regional/Sexual Identities," Keynote Address, Marsden Hartley: Image and Identity symposium, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, November 5, 2004
  • "Racial Signs and the Modernist Body: Marsden Hartley's Representation of the North Atlantic Folk," College Art Association national conference, Philadelphia, February 21, 2002
  • "The Invisibility of Race and Modernist Representation: A Case Study of Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic Folk," American Historical Association national conference, Boston, Mass., January 7, 2001
  • "Reading Marsden Hartley into His Culture: Regionalism and Race in His Maine Paintings, 1937-43," Bowdoin College Museum of Art, September 20, 2000
  • "Defining America: Jazz and Early 20th-Century American Painting," Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, N.C., June 8, 2000
  • "Aaron Douglas's Images of the Jazz Saxophonist and the Construction of African-American Identity," American Culture Association national conference, New Orleans, April 21, 2000
  • "Jazz Representation and Early Twentieth-Century American Culture," Tulane University, November 18, 1998
  • "Arthur Dove's Music Paintings: Modernism, Jazz, and National Identity," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, May 16, 1998
  • "Marsden Hartley's North Atlantic Folk: Constructing the Northern Race and the New American," European American Studies Association conference, Lisbon, Portugal, April 4, 1998
  • "Visual and Written Autobiographies: Competing Notions of American and Artistic Identity in the 1930s and Early 1940s," The Netherlands American Studies Association Conference, Middleburg, the Netherlands, June 5-7, 1996
  • "Jazz Representations and Early 20th-Century American Culture: Race, Ethnicity and National Identity," College Art Association conference, San Antonio, January 1995
  • "Heroes and Tradition: Marsden Hartley's The Great Good Man and the Cult of Abraham Lincoln," New England Historical Association conference, Providence, RI, October 17, 1992
  • "Place and Politics: Modernism, Regionalism and the Maine Folk," College Art Association conference, Chicago, February 14, 1992

I also have presented numerous lectures at events sponsored by the Maine Humanities Council, The Maine Collaborative for Education in the Arts and the Humanities, Maine Historical Society, Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, and other regional organizations.