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Nina Dubin

Department of Art History (M/C 201)
202B Henry Hall
University of Illinois at Chicago
935 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607-7039
(312) 355-2151 FAX: (312) 413-2460
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Education

University of California, Berkeley

Ph.D. in History of Art, 2006 Dissertation: Futures and Ruins: The Painting of Hubert Robert

M.A. in History of Art, 2000

Columbia College, Columbia University, New York

B.A. in Art History with honors, cum laude, 1996

Present Position

University of Illinois at Chicago
Assistant Professor of Art History, 2006-present

Grants and Fellowships

  • Institute for the Humanities Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2007-2008
  • Getty Research Institute Residential Fellowship, Los Angeles, 2005-2006
  • David E. Finley Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002-2005
  • Fullbright Award [declined], 2002-2003
  • Dean's Normative Time Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
  • Dean's Dissertation Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
  • Dean’s Fellowship University of California, Berkeley, 1999 History of Art
  • Department Fellowship University of California, Berkeley, 1998

Publications

Futures & Ruins: Hubert Robert in Paris (Getty Research Institute, forthcoming).

“Anti-Edifice: Jean Barbault’s Rome Moderne,” in The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, ed. Rebecca Zorach (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2008), pp. 85-93.

“Robert des Ruines,” Cabinet 20 (January, 2006), pp. 92-97.

Conference Papers and Lectures

“The Time of Hell” Annual Meeting of the College Art Association Los Angeles, 2009.

“Futures and Ruins in Eighteenth-Century Paris” Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois Chicago, 2008.

“The Past and the Futures Market” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Portland, 2008.

“Anti-Edifice” The Virtual Tourist in Renaissance Rome: Printing and Collecting the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae. Conference at the University of Chicago. Chicago, 2007.

“Landscape and Improvisation: The Case of the French ‘Piranèsians’” Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Montpellier, 2007.

“The Ruin, the Future & the Market” Getty Research Institute Scholars and Seminars Program, Los Angeles, 2006; University of Chicago Working Group on the Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae, Chicago, 2007.

“Entrepreneurial Aesthetics & Urban Disasters in Pre-Revolutionary Paris” Annual Meeting of the College Art Association, Boston, 2006; University of Chicago, Department of Art History, Chicago, 2007.

“Urban Disasters, Entrepreneurial Aesthetics & the Modern Cult of Ruins” University of Illinois, Department of Art History Chicago, 2006.

“Profits & Ruins: Hubert Robert and the Art of Speculation” Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Las Vegas, 2005.

“Futures, Ruins, Risks: Hubert Robert and the Aesthetics of Speculation” Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C., 2004.

“Real Estate and the Aesthetics of Speculation” Play and Art in the Eighteenth Century. Symposium at the Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Paris, 2003.

“Demolishing the City: Hubert Robert and the Urban Sublime” Constructing the City. History of Art Department Conference, Yale University New Haven, 2003.

“The Picturesque after Thermidor” Posing Models: The Question of Beauty and its Status in the History of Art Art and Archaeology Department Conference, Princeton University, 2002.

"Theorizing the Spectacle" Interdisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representation Panel Moderator, The Berkeley Symposium, University of California Berkeley, 2000.

"Rembrandt's Contour" Samuel H. Kress History of Art Symposium, University of California Berkeley, 1999.

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