Curriculum
Vitae
Agnieszka Whelan
Present position:
Lecturer in Art History
Department of Art
and Institute of Asian Studies,
Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Building,
room 125
Old Dominion University,
Norfolk, Virginia
23529-0116
Phone: (757)
683-4772
Email:awhelan@odu.edu
Education: MA in
Art History (Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza, Poznan, Poland)
1982.
Teaching experience:
ARTH 121 A Introduction to Visual Arts
ARTH 127 A Introduction to Visual Arts Honors
ARTH 212 Survey of
Art part 2: from the Renaissance to Modern Art
ARTH 314 Northern
Renaissance
ARTH 319 Baroque
Art
ARTH 360 Asian Art
ARTH 395 Japanese
Gardens and Architecture – study abroad
ARTH 395 Spanish,
Flemish and Dutch Painting
Research Papers:
‘On the statuary of the garden of Pulawy’. Studies in the History of Gardens and
Designed Landscapes, 2009,
vol.29, nos 1&2, 57-71.
‘Izabela Czartoryska and the designed landscape in Poland,
1772-1831’,
Studies in the
History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, 2008, vol.28,
no 2, 281-302.
‘The collection
of Princess Izabela Czartoryska and issues of its reception’. The International Journal of Arts in
Society, v.2, issue 3,
2008, pp.93-98.
‘Różne oblicza ogrodu regularnego w Anglii w XVII i
XVIII wieku. (The Regular
Garden in England in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries)’. Ogród-Iluzja-Splendor.
Mit Rezydencji w Wesalu. Materiały z Sesji naukowej z okazji
trzechsetletniej rocznicy śmierci Andre Le Notra. Zamek Królewski w
Warszawie i Instytut Sztuki PAN, maj 2000’,
Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, 1-4, 2001, 315-350.
‘On the Principles
of Zen Gardening’. Art-Ritual-Religion.
Papers delivered at the Institute of Art, Polish Academy
of Science Conference, 7th -9th June 2000. Edited by Piotr Paszkiewicz, Polska Akademia Nauk, Warszawa, 2001.
'Czy Puławy byly sławne? (How Famous was Puławy ?)’ Materiały z sesji
‘Parki Magnackich Rezydencji Rodu Czartoryskich w Europie Centralnej i
Wschodniej’. Ośrodek Ochrony
Zabytkowego Krajobrazu, Narodowa Instytucja Kultury, Studia i Materialy.
Warszawa 2001.
‘The
Garden of Konchi-in, Kyoto’. Encyclopedia
of Gardens: History and Design. Ed. Candice Shoemaker.
Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago,
2001,v.2, 729-731.
‘The
Garden of Shoden-ji,
Kyoto.’ Encyclopedia
of Gardens: History and Design. Ed. Candice Shoemaker.
Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago,
2001, v.3, 1219-1221.
‘Kyoto Botanical
Garden’. Encyclopedia of
Gardens: History and Design. Ed. Candice Shoemaker.
Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago,
2001, v.2, 738-740.
‘Time
and History in the Eigtheenth
Century Landscape
Garden. The Case of Princess
Izabela Czartoryska’s Garden in Puławy,
Poland.’
Bulletin of the Faculty of Education
& Human Sciences, Yamanashi
University, 2000, v.2,
no1, 282-297.
‘O
sztuce i praktyce sadzenia roslin w ogrodach Izabela Czartoryskiej. (On the art and practice
of planting in the gardens of Izabela Czartoryska.)’ Ogrod Pulawski – przeszlosc
przyszlosci. Materialy
z konferencji. Fundacja Wspierania Historycznego
Ogrodu Puławskiego, Instytut Uprawy Nawożenia i Gleboznawstwa,
Puławy 1999.
‘Czuła
dusza w krajobrazie postępu. Dziennik podróży Izabeli
Czartoryskiej po Anglii i Szkocji. (Sensitive soul in
the landscape of progress. Izabela Czartoryska’s diary
of travel around England and
Scotland.)’
Ogród puławski w
czasach księżny Izabeli oraz perspektywy jego zachowania przy zmianie
funkcji. Materialy
z konferencji, Puławy 25 września 1997r.
Fundacja Wspierania Historycznego Ogrodu Puławskiego,
Instytut Uprawy Nawożenia i Gleboznawstwa, Puławy 1999.
‘The Rebirth of Poland and the Growth of Trees. Politics in the Garden at the Time of Partitions.’ Art and Politics. Papers delivered at the Institute of Art,
Polish Academy of Science, History of Art
conference. Edited by Piotr Paszkiewicz and Francis
Ames-Lewis. Birkeck College, University
of London, Department of
History of Art, 1998, 45-60.
‘The Art and National Identity in Poland and England. Sesja naukowa zorganizowana prez Wydział Historii Sztuki, Birkbeck College,
University of London, 5-6 kwietnia 1995r.
Review paper co-authored with Anna Bentkowska. Biuletyn Historii Sztuki, LVIII, 1996, Nr 1-2, 233-236.
‘Izabela
Czartoryska and the Introduction of the English
Garden to Poland.’ Polish and English responses to French art and architecture. Contrasts and
similarities. Papers delivered at the University of London
and University of Warsaw History of Art conference January and September 1993. Edited by Francis Ames-Lewis. Birkeck
College, University of London,
Department of History of Art, 1995, 71-84.
‘Kórnik,
Alhambra i
romantyczny ideał.
O motywach orientalnych w architekturze rezydencji Tytusa
Działyńskiego. (Kórnik, Alhambra and the romantic ideal. On oriental aspects of Tytus Działyński’s residence)’. Pamiętnik Biblioteki Kórnickiej,
1986, z.21, 12-33.
‘Kórnik orientalny. Elementy architektoniczne i dekoracyjne rezydencji Tytusa
Działynskiego. (Oriental Kórnik, architectural and decorative
elements in the residence of Tytus Działyński)’. Poznańskie Towarzystwo Przyjacół Nauk, Sprawozdania nr
101 za 1983 r. Wydział Nauk o Sztuce, Poznań 1984, 3-14.
Conferences :
Travels of landowners. Muzeum Zamoyskich w Kozlowce, Poland,
8-10 October, 2008. Paper presented: Travels of Izabela Czartoryska and a
cultural female archetype in the Polish post-Partition reality.
South Eastern College Art Association Conference New Orleans
US, September, 2008.
Chair of session: Tableau vivant, performance and public
display.
Paper presented: Gesture and gender in the garden in the 18th
century.
Trauma and the Sublime, University of Wales,
Swansea, 6-8
August 2008
Paper presented: Distress of Nations: the Sublime in Poland
at the time of the Partitions.
South Eastern College Art Association Conference, Charleston,
West Virginia, US,
October 17-20, 2007.
Chair of the session:
Historiography in the art and gardens of
East and West
Paper presented: Visualizing historical thinking. Gardens of the eighteenth century Europe
and the construction of history.
The
International Conference on the Arts in Society, University of Kassel, Germany, August 22-24, 2007. Paper
presented: The collection of Princess
Izabela Czartoryska and issues of its reception.
Sculpture
in Arcadia:
gardens, parks and woodlands as settings for sculptural encounters from the 18th to 21st century. University
of Reading, United Kingdom, 26th
February 2007. Paper
presented: On the statuary of the garden of Pulawy.
Symposium on Cognitive Historiography and Normative
Historiography: Searching for the role of history in the 21st
century, Yamanashi University, Kofu, Japan,
27-29th March 2003. Paper presented: Landscapes of East and West: a historiographical perspective.
International conference on the history and
conservation of eighteenth and nineteenth century landscape gardens in central
and eastern Europe, Uman, Ukraine,
9-12 July 2000. Paper
presented: How famous was Pulawy?
Garden-Illusion-Splendor. Academic conference for the 300 anniversary of death of Andre
LeNotre. The Royal Castle in Warsaw and the
Institute of Art
of the Polish Academy of Science. May 2000. Paper
presented: The regular garden in England
in the in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Art-Ritual-Religion. 4th Anglo-Polish Conference on
Art History, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, June 1998. Paper presented: On the principles of Zen gardening.
The Pulawy garden at the time of Izabela
Czartoryska’s life and issues of its preservation and a new function. Foundation of the Historical Garden of Pulawy.
National Research
Institute IUNG, Pulawy, 25th September 1997. Paper presented: Sensitive soul in the landscape of progress.
Izabela Czartoryska’s diary of travel around England and Scotland
Art
and Politics. 3rd Anglo-Polish
Conference on Art History, Polish
Academy of Science, Warsaw, September 1996. Paper presented: The
Rebirth of Poland
and the Growth of Trees. Politics in the Garden at the Time
of Partitions.
Polish and English Responses to French Art and
Architecture, Anglo-Polish Conference on the History of Art, University of London,
September 1993. Paper presented: Izabela
Czartoryska and the introduction of the English garden to Poland.
Colloquia:
Yamanashi University, April 1999. Time and History in the Eighteenth
Century Landscape
Garden.
Cambridge University, November 1998. Paper given: The Polish Whigs and their gardens.
Polish Society of
Art Historians, Szczecin
Castle, June 1997. Paper
given: The origin of the Polish landscape
garden in its international context.
Polish Society of
the Friends of Science, December 1983. Paper
given: The Castle of Kornik
and the architecture parlante.
Professional affiliations:
Garden History Society
Stowarzyszenie Historykow Sztuki
Association of Asian Studies
College Art Association