Community: Faculty & Staff
Maurie McInnis, Director
Associate Professor, Art History
Fayerweather Hall 305, 243-8651
mcinnis@virginia.edu
Prof. McInnis received her Ph.D. and M.A. in art history from Yale University, and her B.A. from the University of Virginia. Her main research interest is in the cultural history of American Art in the colonial and antebellum South. Much of her work has been focused on the material culture of Charleston including the exhibition catalogue In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad, 1740-1860 (1999) and the book The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston (2005). Her current book project, Remembering the Revolution: Pictures, Politics and Memory, is interested in shifting meanings of the American Revolution in the 19th century and the cultural constructions of memory. Prof. McInnis teaches several large undergraduate lecture courses including a survey of American Art from the colonial period through 1945, and (with Louis Nelson) "Arts and Cultures of the Slave South." Her undergraduate and graduate seminars often engage questions of material culture method, or American constructions of race ("Race and Place in American Art"), or American constructions of regional identity ("Imagining America's Wests" and "The Old South in Myth and Memory.")
Barbara Moriarty, Administrative Assistant
Bryan Hall 422B, 924-6074
bam9s@virginia.edu
Office Hours: M-F 8:00-5:00
Core Faculty
Sylvia Chong
Assistant Professor, English
Bryan Hall 220, 924-6674
sc9ar@virginia.edu
Prof. Chong received her Ph.D. in Rhetoric from University of California, Berkeley, an A.M. in Education from Stanford University, and her B.A. in English Literature from Swarthmore College. She teaches in both the American Studies Program and the Department of English, and also runs the minor in Asian Pacific American Studies. Teaching interests range from cultural studies, popular culture, and film and media, to critical theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of violence. She has published articles on Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter and on Samuel Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. She is currently working on a book on the Vietnam War era film and television, and how the visual representation of the Asian body in violence contributed to understandings of race and interracial subjectivities in American culture. She has offered courses on Asian Pacific American visual culture, theories of violence in film, American Orientalism in World War II films, theories of censorship, and film theory.
Grace Hale
Associate Professor, History
Levering Hall 108, 924-6413
gh5x@virginia.edu
Prof. Hale received her Ph.D. in History from Rutgers University, and her B.A. and M.A. from the University of Georgia. Her research includes the cultural and social history of the U.S. South. She published Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940 (New York: Pantheon, 1998), and also has numerous articles on gender, whiteness, and southern identity. Her courses include the common course, Rural Poverty in Our Time, and the history course, 20th-Century South. Prof. Hale also teaches the core class, 301-302, in AMST.
Carmenita Higginbotham
Assistant Professor, Art History
Fayerweather Hall 308, 924-6131
ch6sv@virginia.edu
Prof. Higginbotham's main research interests include American art and culture of the late-nineteenth and the early-twentieth centuries. Much of her research has focused on the 1920s and 30s. Her currently untitled manuscript examines the ways in which urban realist painters of the interwar period adopt representational strategies to respond to pervasive racial and ethnic influences on American culture. Ms. Higginbotham teaches courses on a range of American art historical topics including an American art survey from Reconstruction to World War II, American Modernisms, African American Art, and Film Noir. Her graduate seminars engage a range of critical debates about painting, photography, and sculpture between world wars, and the ways in which mainstream visual culture and its representation of class, race, and gender influences the construction of American identities.
Eric Lott
Professor, English
Bryan Hall 214, 924-6640
ewl4p@virginia.edu
Prof. Lott received this Ph.D. and M.A. in English Literature from Columbia Univeristy, and a B.A. from University of Missouri. He has published The Disappearing Liberal Intellectual: Or, How the Left Became the Center (Basic Books, 2006) and Love and Theft: Blackface Minstrelsy and the American Working Class (Oxford, 1993; paperback, 1995). He teaches courses in American studies, African American literature, cultural studies, and film.
Christian McMillen
Assistant Professor, History
Randall Hall 217, 924-6416
cwm6w@virginia.edu
Prof. McMillen received his Ph.D. in History from Yale Univeristy, a M.A. in History from the University of Montana, and a B.A. in History from Earlham College. He has recently published Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory (New Haven: Yale, 2007). He teaches Native America and Culture and Politics of Indian Rights.
Affiliated Faculty
Robert Kolker, Media Studies
Adam Waterman, American Studies
Ashley Williams, American Studies
Ruth Hill, Spanish
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