Professor Susan Casteras and Her Graduate Students

In October 2010, Art History Professor Susan Casteras presented a paper titled “Commodification in the 21st Century: Pre-Raphaelitism and Merchandise, Comic Books and Mysteries” at a University of Delaware conference titled “Useful & Beautiful: The Transatlantic Arts of William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites.” Kyle Stoneman, PhD student in Art History, gave a presentation at the same conference titled “Frederick Judd Waugh: The New World and the American Galahad.” Casteras presented another paper in late January 2011 at the “Cultures of Aestheticism” Conference at UCLA. Her paper was titled “‘Wilde Things’: Visual Constructions of Male & Female Aesthetes.”

On 11 March 2011, Casteras will be chairing a session titled “New Directions in Victorian Art” at the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies, which is being hosted by the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the UW. Three Art History graduate students are presenting papers in that session: Katie Tuft’s paper is “The Hope of an Artist: George Frederic Watts and the Art of Translation;” Jennifer Henneman’s paper is “Selling the Self, collecting the Fragment: Professional Beauties & Cartomania;” and Trevor Doak’s paper is “Lie to Me: The Spirit Photography of William Mumler.”

Casteras also has an article forthcoming in the March 2011 issue of Visual Resources: An International Journal of Documentation. Her article is titled “Joseph Noel Paton’s Bond and Free: Five Sketches Illustrative of Slavery.”