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Faculty News, 2006-07

Sarah McPhee participated in the Third German-American Frontiers of Humanities Symposium: "The Making of Memory. Space. Performance. Appropriation," hosted by the Humboldt Foundation and the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia in October, where she delivered a paper entitled: "Spatial Stratigraphy in Bernini's Rome."
 
In January her essay "Costanza Bonarelli: Biography versus Archive," appeared in Bernini's Biographies, ed. M. Delbeke, E. Levy, and S. Ostrow, University Parl, 2006.

Walter Melion gave the following lectures in the Fall 2006:
- "Ecce Homo: The Difficult Image of Christ Exposed to View in Jerónimo Nadal’s Annotations and Meditations on the Gospels," Emory University, Lovis Corinth Research Symposium II, 2006;
Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Salt Lake City, 2006
- "The Meditative Form and Function of Otto van Veen’s Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine (1589), Deposition (1605), and Carrying of the Cross (ca. 1610)," Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, 2006
- "Eros and Imitation in Hendrick Goltzius’s Life of the Virgin of 1593-94," Renaissance Society of America Conference, San Francisco, 2006; Emory University, Lovis Corinth Research Symposium II, 2006
- "Imitation and Incarnation in Hendrick Goltzius’s Annunciation of 1594," Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Baltimore, 2006
- "Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Prints as History and Exegesis," Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Baltimore, 2006
"Meditative Images and the Psychology of Soul," Department of Religion and Contemplative Studies Reading Group, Emory University, 2006

Prof. Melion was keynote speaker at a gathering of Emory alumni in London, Friday, 15 June 2007, at The Balcony Room of The Shakespeare Globe Theatre, overlooking the Thames. The event was Sponsored by Dr. Robert A. Paul, Dean of Emory University's College of Arts and Sciences, and organized by Julia Morgan Williams, Director of External Relations--Europe, Middle East, Africa. Prof. Melion spoke on the topic, "Meditating on Images: An Art Historian at The British Library." Nearly 100 alumni and friends of Emory attended the lecture, which was preceded by remarks from Dean Paul on Emory University's Strategic Plan, and followed by a reception in honor of Dr. Melion. Among Emory's representatives at the event were Josh Newton, Senior Associate Vice President for Arts and Sciences Development, Santa Ono, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives, and John Ford, Senior Vice President for Campus Life. Photos of the event >>>

James Meyer has been named the Winship Distinguished Associate Professor of Art History for three years. He is currently a Fellow at the Clark Research Institute in Williamstown, MA.

Elizabeth Pastan won a 2007 Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring. She has been described as "an outstanding teacher, able to present difficult material in a way that is both accessible and challenging to students." Students describe her as vibrant, energetic, passionate, eloquent, engaging, and charismatic, and remember her as the faculty member who has most influenced them during their time at Emory.

Rebecca Stone is giving a paper at the annual College Art Association meetings in New York City, February 15, entitled "Disability as Divine: Special Bodies in Ancient American Art" in a session called "Disability and Visual Culture."

Bonna Wescoat is the Whitehead Visiting Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece.