Professor Dale Kinney is spending the Fall 2011 semester in Rome as interim Head of the Art History Program at The American University of Rome.
With a Ph.D. from New York University, Eugenia Chase Guild Professor Emeritus in the Humanities Dale Kinney spent 38 years on Bryn Mawr’s faculty, during which time she also served as Acting Provost (2000) and Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2000-2008) before retiring in 2010.
As Research Professor, she is at work on several publications on various topics concerning medieval art and architecture. Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine, which she co-edited with Richard Brilliant, will be published on September 28 and will be distributed in November (Ashgate). Prof. Kinney is also currently working on the architecture of a 6th Century monastery in Sohag, Egypt, while continuing to do research on medieval Rome.
Prof. Kinney is not new to Rome or to AUR. She lived here from 1969 to 1972, and was a Fellow of the American Academy from 1970 to 1972. She returned to Rome as Resident at the Academy in 1996, and in 2008-2009 she was Richard Krautheimer Guest Professor at the Bibliotheca Hertziana across town. In 2005 she reviewed the AUR Art History Program. “It is very interesting for me to meet new professors, see the institution from a different prospective and notice how the program has developed. I am looking forward to these few months at AUR” she commented.
Dr. Kinney serves on various committees and advisory boards, including the Board of Directors of the International Center of Medieval Art, the Board of Advisors of the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, and the Editorial Advisory Board of Studies in Iconography. She will return to the US in December 2011.
Articles in press include “Spolia as Signifiers in Twelfth-Century Rome” and an essay on Richard Krautheimer in a volume marking the 100th anniversary of the Bibliotheca Hertziana.
