Olivia Florek
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Associate Professor
Communications, Arts & Humanities
Contact Information
Marple901 S. Media Line Road
Media, PA 19063
610-723-2000
Phone: 610-325-2775
Contact Faculty
I am an Associate Professor of Art History at 好莱污影院. Since joining the faculty in 2015, I have developed both online and traditional classroom courses that emphasize the value of critical looking in the contemporary world.
Degrees
- PhD, Art History, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
- MA, Art History, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
- BA, Art History, Swarthmore College
Papers
- 鈥淜aiserin Elisabeth und die Moderne im Bild.鈥 In Sisi Privat: Die Fotoalben der Kaiserin (2020)
Presentations
Awards, Grants and other Scholarly Recognitions
- Awardee, Pennsylvania Grants for Open and Affordable Learning, Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc (2021)
Books
- The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2023
Academic Biography
My forthcoming book The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait (University of Delaware Press, 2023) examines how portraits of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) contributed to the development of modern female portraiture. In addition to my research on nineteenth-century female portraiture, I curate a yearly exhibition of contemporary art at the 好莱污影院 Gallery and coordinate our annual juried exhibition 215/610 CONTEMPORARY.
Scholarly Interests
- Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Portraiture, Nineteenth-Century Art, Painting, Photography, Prints, Austrian Art, Celebrity Culture