Academic : Design : Studio : Emeritus

Stacey Sloboda, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Art History

Stacey Sloboda specializes in eighteenth and nineteenth-century European art. She received her Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Southern California in 2004. Along with a primary focus on eighteenth and nineteenth-century British art, her research interests include the history of decorative arts, aesthetic theory, collecting and consumption, and imperial culture. She teaches courses on eighteenth and nineteenth-century European art and visual culture at SIUC. She is currently writing a book manuscript, entitled Chinoiserie and the Aesthetics of Consumption in Eighteenth-Century Britain.

PUBLICATIONS

Articles:
 “The Grammar of Ornament:  Cosmopolitanism and Reform in British Design,” Journal of Design History vol. 21 no. 3 (Fall 2008). 

“Picturing China:  William Alexander and the Visual Language of Chinoiserie,” British Art Journal vol. 9 no. 2 (Fall 2008).

“Porcelain Bodies:  Gender, Acquisitiveness, and Taste in Eighteenth-Century England” in Collecting Subjects:  The Visual Meanings and Pleasures of Material Culture in Britain, Alla Myzelev and John Potvin, eds. (Burlington VT: Ashgate, in press).

“Fashioning the Bluestocking Interior:  Elizabeth Montagu’s ‘Empire of China’,” in The Architecture of Identity in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Denise Baxter and Meredith Martin, eds. (Burlington VT: Ashgate, in press).

“Displaying Materials:  Porcelain in the Duchess of Portland’s Museum,” in Collecting Across Cultures in the Early Modern World, Daniela Bleichmar and Peter Mancall, eds., forthcoming.

Book Reviews:
Book Review of Owen Jones:  Design, Ornament, Architecture, and Theory in an Age in Transition by Carol A. Hrvol Flores in Studies in the Decorative Arts vol. XIV no. 2 (Spring/Summer 2007).

Book review of Household Gods: The British and their Possessions by Deborah Cohen (Yale University Press, 2006) for Design and Culture (2009).

COURSES TAUGHT:
AD 101:  Introduction to Visual Culture
AD 207c:  Introduction to Art History III
AD 327:  Aesthetics
AD 357/527:  Nineteenth-Century Art
AD 437:  Eighteenth-Century Art
AD 438:  Writing About Art and Design
AD 497d:  Special Topics:  Vision, Culture, and Visual Culture

FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS:
2009:  Visiting Scholar, Yale Center for British Art
2006:  Faculty Seed Grant, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
2004:  Final Year Dissertation Award, University of Southern California
2003:  Pre-Doctoral Travel Fellowship in the History of Art, Samuel H. Kress Foundation
2003:  Robert R. Wark Fellowship, The Huntington Library and Art Gallery
2001-2002:  Borchard Foundation Fellowship for Overseas Research
Summer 2000:  Victorian Society in America Fellowship
Summer 1999:  Geoffrey Beard Fellowship, The Attingham Trust
1998-2002:  Alma Mae Cook Scholarship, University of Southern California