I am currently seeking part-time work teaching/lecturing.
I can teach courses in art history, American studies, visual culture, and critical media studies.
My main teaching experience is at universities, but I am also interested in opportunities at colleges, schools, and adult education programs.
Based in Colchester, Essex, I can travel to London and throughout East Anglia.
Teaching Philosophy
My own experience as an undergraduate student at a small liberal arts college has greatly influenced my teaching philosophy and methods. My courses are well structured, but my nonhierarchical, collective teaching style emphasizes student participation and debate. I frame course content so that students develop an increased sense of the role of culture in world events, heightened critical thinking abilities, and greater understanding of points of view different from their own.
Courses Taught
Becoming Modern: European Art from Futurism to Surrealism,
University of Essex, Colchester, UK
The Popularization of Art in 1950s America,
SUNY-Binghamton, New York, USA
Pop Art/Pop Culture, SUNY-Binghamton, New York, USA
American Visual Culture of the 1950s,
SUNY-Binghamton, New York, USA
Teaching Assistant for eleven art history survey courses at SUNY-Binghamton and the University of Florida
Selected Special Topic Courses I Have Designed
Highbrow, Middlebrow, Lowbrow: Cultural Hierarchies in
1950s America
After World War II, 80% of Americans identified themselves as middle
class, and indeed two-thirds of households were considered to earn a
middle income. At this time, cultural markers grew in
importance as a way to stratify the population and identify
different groups. In this course we will examine examples of
art, music, books, magazines, films, television programs, and
fashions and problematize the identities these items came to
represent.
American Visual Culture of the
1950s, 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s
These (four separate) courses consider paintings, print journalism,
advertisements, films, architecture/design, and other forms of
avant-garde and popular culture from each decade in the context of
major themes and issues of the time.
A history of feminist movements and how they have been reported to the American public c. 1960-1990
Modern Art and the Public
This course considers fundamental questions such as “What is art?”
and “What is the purpose of art?” and a number of art issues that
the public regularly encounters today, including funding,
censorship, public art, political art, museums and exhibition
practices, and the art market.
Modernism v. Consumerism:
Mid-Twentieth Century Art in America
Realist art of the 1930s endeavored to be populist. The potential
for this art to be exploited led to the elitism of high modernism
after WWII, yet even Abstract Expressionism was popularized in the
mass media. Subsequently, the 1960s saw reactions to this
consumerisation of culture in the content and promotional strategies
of Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and other trends. This module explores
the complex relationship between modernism, populism, and mass
culture at mid-century.
A combined history of art photography, photojournalism, and amateur photography
Abstract Expressionism and After
This course explores the Abstract Expressionist painting that
dominated mid-twentieth-century art and various styles from the
1960s through today that were inspired by elements of this art such
as non-representational abstraction, expressionist gesture,
political uses of art, and process and performance.
From portraits of monarchs to photojournalism appropriated for political protest posters to corporate advertisements, images have throughout history and continue today to be mobilized by political and economic entities to consolidate and increase their power in society. This introductory course presents a variety of artworks and other images and considers how each was used to empower its owners.
Standard Art History Courses I Can Teach
Survey of Art History
The Age of Avant-Gardes: An Institutional History of Modern Art
(Survey of Modern Art)
Responses to Modernity: Late Nineteenth-Century Art in Europe
Manifesto Mania: Early Twentieth-Century Art in Europe
Pop and Anti-Pop: Mid-Twentieth-Century Art in Europe and America
The Personal is Political: Late Twentieth-Century Art in Europe and
America
Modern Art in America
Contemporary Art and Theory
History of Photography
Women and Art
American Art
Abstract Expressionism
Pop Art
Dada and Surrealism
French Impressionism
Theory and Methods
Teaching Awards & Certificates
SUNY-Binghamton
Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2004
University of Florida Graduate Teaching Assistant Training Program Certificate, 1999
Contact Information
email: christine@christinebianco.com
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