Associate Professor Jennifer Milam

Ph.D., Princeton University. Dissertation: A Triumph of Ludicity: Games and Play in the Art of Jean-Honorè Fragonard
M.A., Princeton University. General field: Western Art and Architecture 1600-1855; special field: French Art 1600-1789
B.A., Barnard College. Major: Art History; minor: Economics

Grants and Awards Received

• Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, 2009-2011,
• University of Sydney, Bridging Support Grant, 2008,
• Yale Center for British Art, Fellow, 2007,
• University of Sydney, FARSS, 2007,
• Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2006,
• University of Sydney, Seed Funding, 2006,
• University of Sydney, RIBG, Visual Culture Research Cluster, 2006,
• Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, 2004-2006,
• University of Sydney SESQUI Research Grant, 2003,
• Columbia University, Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Fellow, 2003
• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 2002,
• Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant, 2002,
• Apple Australia Teaching Grant, 2002,
• University of Sydney SESQUI Research and Development Grant, 2002,
• University of Sydney Teaching Improvement Fund Award, 2002,
• University of Sydney SESQUI Research and Development Grant, 2001,
• University of Sydney, Teaching Improvement Fund Award, 2001,
• Australian Research Council Small Grant 1998-1999,
• University of Sydney Research Grant, 1998-1999,
• College Art Association Conference Travel Grant, 1998,
• University of Sydney Overseas Travel Grants, 1997, 1999, 2001 and 2003,
• University of Sydney Faculty Teaching Initiative Award, 1997,
• Samuel H. Kress Foundation Dissertation Fellowship, 1995-1996,
• Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1994,
• Rensselaer Lee Memorial Fellowship, 1992-1993,
• École normale supérierure, pensionnaire étrangère, 1992-1993
• Spears Travel Grants, Summer 1991, US$2500;1992-1993,
• Mellon Summer Dissertation Seminar, 1992,
• Hencken Travel Grant, 1991,
• Council on Regional Studies Grant, 1991
• Princeton University Fellowship, 1989-1994,
• Josephine Pollack Award for Graduate Study in the Arts, 1998-1990,
• Departmental Honours, Department of Art History, Barnard College, 1989
• Barnard College Winter Grant for Independent Projects, 1988,
• Dean's List, Barnard College, 1987-1988
• National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar Grant, 1998

Teaching Grants and Awards

• University of Sydney Teaching Improvement Fund Award, 2007
• Australian College of Educators Quality Teaching Award, 2006
• University of Sydney Teaching Initiative Award, 2006
• University of Sydney Teaching Improvement Fund Award, 2003
• University of Sydney Teaching Initiative Award, 2002
• Apple Australia Teaching Grant, 2002
• University of Sydney Teaching Improvement Fund Award,2002
• University of Sydney, Teaching Improvement Fund Award, 2001
• University of Sydney Faculty Teaching Initiative Award, 1997

Research Interests

• The idea of play in 18th century France, particularly as formulated by rococo painters
• The importance of gender and age distinctions during the Enlightenment, and the role played by visual images in creating categories
• Women's patronage in the 18th century, and how commissioning and collecting as an activity was used for image power and status.

Publications

Books

• 2007 Fragonard’s Playful Paintings. Visual Games in Rococo Art, University of Manchester Press.
• 2009 (contracted date of publication) Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art, Scarecrow Press.

Edited Books

• 2003 Women, Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth-Century Europe, eds. Melissa Hyde and Jennifer Milam, Ashgate Press.

Books in Preparation

• A Playful Aesthetic. Reinterpreting Rococo Visual Culture (research complete; writing in progress)
• Cosmopolitanism and the Visual in Eighteenth-Century Europe]] (research and writing in progress)
• [[iThe Business of Art: Corporate Interventions into the Production, Display, and Reception of the Visual Arts (research in progress)

Essays and Chapters in Books

• 2008 “A Monk, the Writer and his Painter: Diderot’s Imagining of a Fragonard” in Word and Image in the Eighteenth Century: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue, eds. Renata Schellenberg and Christina Ionescu, Newcastle, UK,: Cambridge Scholars Press.
• 2007 “Miming Play: Picturing Amusement in Rococo Decorative Panels and Garden Designs” in Performing the "Everyday": The Culture of Genre in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Alden Cavanaugh, University of Delaware Press, 47-61.
• 2007 “The Art of Imagining Childhood in the Eighteenth Century” in
  Stories for Childhood, Histories of Childhood/Histoires d’enfant, histories d’enfant, ed. Rosie Findlay, Presses Universitaires François Rabelais.
• 2005 “Art in the Boardroom: Questioning the Ethics of Corporate Collecting Practices”, co-authored with Garritt Van Dyk, Cindy Davids and Gordon Boyce, in Corporate Social Responsibility in International Perspective, ed. David Crowther and Renu Jatana, Hyderabad, ICFAI University Press, 2005.
• 2003 “Play between disciplines: the problem of the ludic in rococo art and Enlightenment culture” in The Interdisciplinary Century: Tensions and Convergences in 18th-Century Art, History and Literature, Oxford, The Voltaire Foundation, 102-113.
• 2003 “Matronage and the direction of sisterhood: portraits of Madame Adélaïde” in Women, Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth-Century Europe, eds. Melissa Hyde and Jennifer Milam, Ashgate Press, chapter 6.
• 2003“Introduction: art, cultural politics and the woman question” (co-authored with Melissa Hyde) in Women, Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth-Century Europe, eds. Melissa Hyde and Jennifer Milam, Ashgate Press, chapter 1.
• 2002 “Sex Education and the Child: Gendering Erotic Response in Eighteenth-Century France” in Between Rousseau and Freud: Visual Representations of Children and the Construction of Childhood in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Marilyn Brown, Ashgate, 45-53.

Articles in Refereed Journals

• 2003 “Mixing it up: Blending face-to-face and online learning in first year Art History and Theory,” SYNERGY, Issue 18.
• 2000 “Playful Constructions and Fragonard’s Swinging Scenes,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol.33, no. 4, 543-559.
• 1999 “Fragonard’s Le Furet,” The Burlington Magazine, September, 542-3.
• 1998 “Fragonard and the Blindman’s Game: Interpreting Representations of Blindman’s Buff,” Art History, March, 1-25. Nominated for the Clifford Prize 1998-1999.

Essays in Exhibition Catalogues

• 1999 “Understanding Life Drawings,” Michelangelo to Matisse. Drawing the Figure, eds. Terence Maloon and Peter Raissis, Sydney: The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 38-49.
• 1992 “The Artist’s Working Methods,” William M. Harnett, ed. Doreen Bolger, et. al., New York: Harry N. Abrams, 169-176.

Entries in Refereed Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• 2004 “Jean-Honoré Fragonard” in Dictionary of Early Modern Europe: 1450-1789, Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• 2004 “Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun” in Dictionary of Early Modern Europe: 1450-1789, Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• 2004 “Games/Play” in Dictionary of Early Modern Europe: 1450-1789, Charles Scribner’s Sons.
• 2001 “Madame Adélaïde of France” in Dictionary of Artists’ Models, Fitzroy and Dearborn Press, London, 348-351.

Book Review

• 1997 “Background View,” review of Matthew Craske’s Art in Europe 1700-1830 in The Weekend Australian, July 12-13, Review section, 7.

Other Essays and Articles

• 1996 “Lanseyier...Fête Galante with Bowlers” in The Enlightened Eye. Images of Nature Observed and Perfected, eds. J. M. Sansum and A. Fioratti, exh. cat., L’Antiquaire and The Connoisseur, Inc., New York, 38.
• 1995 “Landscape fantasies and farm fictions in French drawings and prints during the ancien règime,” The Magazine Antiques, CXLVIII, no. 4, October, 492-501.

Current Classes

• ARHT2613 The Art of France
• ARHT5908 The Business of Art