Indiana University Bloomington

Department of the History of Art

Melody Barnett Deusner | Faculty

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art

E-mail: mdeusner@indiana.edudeusner

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Education

Ph.D., University of Delaware, 2011

Research Interests

American art and mass culture
nineteenth-century art
art, patronage, and the business world
museum history and institutional critique
network studies

Selected Publications

“Whistler, Aestheticism, and the Networked World,” in Linda Merrill and Lee Glazer (eds.), Palaces of Art: Whistler and the Art Worlds of Aestheticism (forthcoming)

“‘In seen and unseen places’: The Henry G. Marquand House and Collections in England and America,” Art History 3:4 (September 2011)

Book review: Marjorie Garber, Patronizing the Arts (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008). caa.reviews (October 13, 2011)

Honors and Awards

Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in American Art, Northwestern University (2010–12)
Douglass Foundation Fellow in American Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2009–10)
Kress Foundation Travel Fellowship (2009)
Henry Luce Foundation/ACLS Dissertation Fellowship in American Art (2008–09)
Terra Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Smithsonian American Art Museum (2007–08)