Dr Jennifer Milam
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BA Barnard MA PhD Princeton |
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| Phone | 9351 4210 | |||
| FAX | 9351 4212 | |||
| Location | Room 226 R C Mills Building map |
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Grants and Awards Received
- 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 & 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
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
- [Book] Women, Art And The Politics Of Identity In Eighteenth-Century Europe, co-edited with Melissa Hyde, Ashgate Press, 2003.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] “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, 2005), 102-113.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] “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, 2003, chapter 6.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] “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, 2003, chapter 1.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] “Jean-Honoré Fragonard” in Dictionary of Early Modern Europe: 1450-1789, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] “Elisabeth Louise Vigée-Lebrun” in Dictionary of Early Modern Europe: 1450-1789, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] “Games/Play” in Dictionary of Early Modern Europe: 1450-1789, Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] “Mixing it up: Blending face-to-face and online learning in first year Art History and Theory”, SYNERGY, Issue 18 .
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "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 Press 2002, 45-53.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "Madame Adélaïde of France" in Dictionary of Artists' Models, Fitzroy and Dearborn Press, London,2001 348-351.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "Playful Constructions and Fragonard's Swinging Scenes," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2000,vol.33, no. 4, 543-559.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "Understanding Life Drawings," Michelangelo to Matisse. Drawing the Figure, eds. Terence Maloon and Peter Raissis, Sydney: The Art Gallery of New South Wales,1999 38-49.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "Fragonard 's Le Furet," The Burlington Magazine, September,1999 542-3.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "Fragonard and the Blindman's Game: Interpreting Representations of Blindman's Buff," Art History, March,1998 1-25. Nominated for the Clifford Prize 1998-1999.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "Background View," review of Matthew Craske's Art in Europe 1700-1830 in The Weekend Australian, July 1997 12-13, Review section, 7.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "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 & The Connoisseur, Inc., New York,1996 38.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "Landscape fantasies and farm fictions in French drawings and prints during the ancien règime," The Magazine Antiques, CXLVIII, no. 4, October,1995 492-501.
- [Article/Essay/Book Chapter] "The Artist's Working Methods," William M. Harnett, ed. Doreen Bolger, et. al., New York: Harry N. Abrams,1992 169-176.
- [Refereed conference paper] “Object Lessons: Online Exhibitions and Art-Historical Instruction”, College Art Associations 93rdAnnual Conference, Atlanta (February 2005)
- [Refereed conference paper] “Miming Play: Picturing Amusement in Rococo Decorative Panels”, College Art Associations 93rd Annual Conference, Atlanta (February 2005)
- [Refereed conference paper] “Play and Nonsense: the Meaningful Excess of Rococo Form”, Art and Excess Symposium, Australian National University (November 2004)
- [Refereed conference paper] “Aesthetic Play in Rococo Art”, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, International Workshop on Play in Eighteenth-Century France (November 2003)
- [Refereed conference paper] “Rococo Art: A Playful Aesthetic”, Columbia University Institute for Scholars at Reid Hall, Fellows Seminar (October 2003)
- [Refereed conference paper] “Rococo Games and the Origins of Visual Modernism”, College Art Associations 90th Annual Conference, Philadelphia (February 2002)
- [Refereed conference paper] “Representing Child Sexuality in Rococo Art,” Art and Artists Against Child Abuse, special session organized by the Women’s Colation, College Art Association’s 90th Annual Conference, Philadelphia (February 2002).




