- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Building on History: Piranesi and Vico'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 01/09/2005 - 01/09/2005
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, Rackham Building, 915 E Washington, Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Nicola Kiver
734 936 3518
- Description: Erika Naginski, Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ruins of Modernity Series
- Detailed Information: Erika Naginski is a historian of European art (17th to 19th centuries) whose research and teaching interests include early modern and modern sculptural practices, Enlightenment aesthetic philosophy, the history of art history, and theories of public space. After graduating from New York University with a BFA (summa cum laude), she earned her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to MIT, she was a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, and taught both French literature and art history at the University of Michigan. She has been the recipient of a post-doctoral fellowship from the University of Michigan, as well as of research grants from the Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Commission, and the Regents of the University of California. She serves on the editorial board of Res. Anthropology and Aesthetics. Her essays have appeared in journals such as Yale French Studies, Res. Anthropology and Aesthetics, and Representations as well as in edited volumes such as Christy Anderson, ed., The Built Surface. Architecture and the Pictorial Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (London, 2002). Her current book manuscript, Sculpture and Enlightenment, considers the transformation of sculptural aesthetics in an age of secular rationalism.
