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