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Dr. Curran in Rome.
Education Dr. Curran teaches courses in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art. He also teaches courses in historiography, antiquarianism, and the history and theory of sculpture. Before coming to Penn State in 1997, he was a Teaching Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University and (from 1984 to 1990) a member of the curatorial staff in the Department of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has received numerous fellowships and grants, including a Samuel H. Kress Institutional Fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome, a Research Grant from the Renaissance Society of America, and most recently, a residential fellowship at the Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center in Florence, Italy (2005-2006). Dr. Curran has published articles and reviews in The Art Bulletin, The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Word & Image, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Memoirs of the American Academy of Rome. He has recently published two book chapters-“The Renaissance Afterlife of Ancient Egypt (1400-1650)” in Tim Champion and John Tait, eds., Encounters with Ancient Egypt: The Wisdom of Egypt: Changing Visions Through the Ages (UCL Press, 2003) and “The Sphinx in the City: Egyptian Memories and Urban Spaces in Renaissance Rome—and Viterbo,” in Stephen Campbell and Stephen Milner, eds., Artistic Exchange and Cultural Translation in the Italian Renaissance City (Cambridge University Press, 2004). His long-awaited book, The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2007. A volume on the history of obelisks (Obelisk: A History, co-authored with Anthony Grafton, Pamela Long, and Benjamin Weiss) will be released this winter by the Dibner Library/MIT Press. Dr. Curran is a recipient of the College of Arts and Architecture Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching(2006), the Roy C. Buck Award, and the President's Award for Engagement with Students, and the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching (2006). Dr. Curran's current research is focused on an investigation of the “grammar of time and place” in Renaissance art. |
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