Department of Art
Aileen Tsui
Assistant Professor of Art
E-mail: atsui2@washcoll.edu
Phone: (800) 422-1782, ext. 7713
Office: Daly 101
Education
- B.A., Yale University, 1988
- M.A., Harvard University, 1992
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001
Office Hours
Tuesday 5:15-6:00 p.m., Wednesday, 3:45-5:00 p.m.
Research Interests
- British, French, and American art of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
- modernist painting and modernity
- exoticism in/and visual culture
- feminist theories and histories of the visual arts
- relationships between image and text
Course Offerings
- Introduction to the History of Western Art
- Nineteenth-Century European Art
- Twentieth-Century Art
- Arts in America
- Photography's First Century
- Women Artists and Feminist Art History
- Early American Modernisms
- Methods of Art History
- Japan in the Western Visual Imagination
Selected Publications
- "The Evanescence of the Butterfly: Effects of Aging on Whistler's Paintings," Nineteenth Century 29:1 (Spring 2009)
- Interview in the Washington College Magazine
- "The Phantasm of Aesthetic Autonomy in Whistler's Work: Titling The White Girl," Art History 29: 3 (June 2006)