Susan M. Dixon

Susan Dixon

Associate Professor of Art HistoryDirector, School of Art Phillips Hall  104
(918)631-2740
susan-dixon@utulsa.edu

Susan M. Dixon researches sixteenth- through nineteenth-century archaeological reconstructions of ancient Rome. She is interested in the intellectual and practical concerns of the science of archaeology during these centuries. She has published studies on the archaeological illustrations of the Italian printmaker Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78), and is currently working on a biography of the Italian topographer Rodolfo Lanciani (1846-1929). Prof. Dixon is also the author of a monograph on the Bosco Parrasio, a Roman garden created the Accademia degli Arcadi, an eighteenth-century literary and scientific society with aspirations for cultural reform. She seems fascinated by printed images of things no longer extant, including historical gardens, festivals, stage sets and prisons.

Education and Degrees Earned

  • PhD History of Art, Cornell University, 1991
  • BS Architecture, Temple University, 1981

Previous Teaching Experience

  • SUNY New Paltz, New Paltz, NY
  • Murray State University, Murray, KY
  • New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred, Alfred, NY

Previous Relevant Work Experience

  • Collections manager/assistant curator
    • Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian's National Museum of Design, New York City, NY

Professional Affiliations

  • College Art Association (CAA)
  • Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture (HECAA)
  • American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
  • Midwest American Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies (MWASECS)
  • Midwest Art History Society

Courses Taught at TU

  • 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Painting (ARTH 4353)
  • Baroque Art (ARTH 4013)
  • History and Theory of the Museum (ARTH 3083)
  • History of Prints (ARTH 3353)
  • Italian Renaissance Art (ARTH 4313)
  • Medieval Art (ARTH 3053)
  • Survey of Art History I (ARTH 2203)

Awards & Recognition

  • 1994-95 J. Paul Getty Post-doctoral Fellowship
  • 2004 and 1992 National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH), Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome
  • 2005 Oklahoma Humanities Council Research Grant
  • 2007 Summer Grant, National Endowment of the Humanities (NEH)
  • 2007 Oklahoma Humanities Council Research Grant

Publications


  • Between the Real and the Ideal: the Accademia degli Arcadi and its garden in eighteenth-century Italy
    (University of Delaware Press, 2006).
  • Francesco Bianchini's images and his legacy in the mid-eighteenth century: from capricci to playing cards to proscenium arch and back
    in Francesco Bianchini (1662-1729) und die europaeische gelehrte Welte um 1700, ed. V. Kockel and B. Soelch (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2006): 83-1006.
  • Illustrating Ancient Rome, or the Ichnographia as Uchronia and other time warps in Piranesi's 'Il Campo Marzio'
    in Envisioning the Past: Archaeology and Image, ed. S. Smiles and S. Moser (Blackwell Publishing, 2005): 115-32.
  • Italian Baroque Art
    (ed) (London: Blackwell-Wiley Publishing, 2008).
  • Piranesi's Pantheon
    in Architecture as Experience, ed. A. Ballantyne and D. Arnold (Routledge Press, 2004): 57-80.
  • The re-attribution of the Pantheon to Hadrian
    in Italian Art, Society and Politics: A Festschrift in Honor of Rab Hatfield, ed. B. Deimling, et al. (Syracuse University Press, 2007): 244-57.
  • The Sources and Fortunes of Piranesi's archaeological illustrations
    in Tracing Architecture: Aesthetics of Antiquarianism, ed. D. Arnold and S. Bending (Blackwell Press, 2002): 49-67.