MONICA E. MCTIGHE Tufts University Department of Art and Art History 11 Talbot Ave Medford MA 02155 (617) 627-5384 (office) (617) 909-3066 (mobile) (617) 627-3890 (fax) Email: monica.mctighe@tufts.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA January 2005 History of Art Concentration in Contemporary Art and Theory PhD: Epic Forgetting : Mapping Memory Practices in Installation Art of the 1980s and 1990s M.A. University of Virginia, 1999 History of Art Concentrations in Contemporary Art and Ancient Greek Art Thesis: Face in the Crowd: Faces in the Constructions of Joseph Cornell B.A. St. John s College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 1994 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2006-present Assistant Professor Tufts University Department of Art History 2004-2006 Lecturer Tufts University Department of Art and Art History Summer 2004 Instructor, Art After 1945 Summer Session Department of Art History University of Virginia Spring 2003 Instructor, Art After 1945 Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program School of Continuing Studies University of Virginia
1998-2001 Teaching Assistant Department of Art History University of Virginia BOOKS Framed Spaces: Photography and Memory in Contemporary Installation Art The University Press of New England, Dartmouth College Press series Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture Series May 7, 2012 (in press) ARTICLES The Family Slide Show as Critical History in Renée Green s Video Partially Buried Continued Third Text issue 87, Volume 2, issue 4, July 2007: 441-450. (Peer Reviewed) A Politics of Reading: Renée Green s September Institute under review at Art Journal (Peer Reviewed) The Last Machine: Contemporary Film and Memory in preparation for submission to Art Journal (Peer Reviewed) New Dimensions in Sound: Pop Music, Nostalgia, and Memory in recent Video Art in preparation for PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art REVIEWS AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS The Art of the Screen: A Review of Screens: Viewing Media Installation Art by Kate Mondloch Art Journal vol.69/4 Winter 2010: 127-129. Renée Green, London Art Papers May/June 2009: 60. Tara Donovan at the ICA Art Papers January 2009: 51. Archaic Nostalgia: The Family Slide Show as Critical History in the Work of Renée Green Proceedings of the Conference Death, Mourning and Memory October 27-29, 2006, organized by the Women Art Patrons And Collectors Conference. Review of Installation Art: A Critical History by Claire Bishop, From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art by Julie Reiss, Installation Art in the New Millenium: The Empire of the Senses by Nicholas De Oliveira, Michael Petry and Nicola Oxley, and Understanding Installation Art by Mark Rosenthal. CAA Reviews, The College Art Association, February 2006. Mnemosyne: New Work by Dean Dass Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2004.
Nature and Memory: Recent Works by Dean Dass Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2003. CATALOGUE ESSAYS Mobius in Context: The History of Boston s Premier Alternative Arts Space an essay in a retrospective catalogue of the work of Marilyn Arsem, in preparation. A Work Aesthetic: The Films of Kevin Everson, an essay in the catalogue Broad Daylight and Other Times: Selected Works of Kevin Jerome Everson Video Data Bank, November 2010: 26-39. Untitled Essay as Yet for the exhibition catalogue The End of Language (March 1-29, 2013 Ruffin Gallery University of Virginia. CONFERENCE PAPERS 2010 Society for Photographic Education Northeast Conference The Experiential in Photography Providence Rhode Island Paper: Embodiment, Experience and Photographic Images 2010 Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC) Richmond Virginia Paper: Film and the Absence of Memory: Two Examples 2009 College Art Association Annual Conference Los Angeles, Paper Artist as Reader: Renée Green s Bibliophilism 2007 Conference, Past in the Present: History as Practice in Art, Design, and Architecture Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland Paper: Power, Affect, and Nostalgia in Contemporary Video Installation 2006 Conference, Rethinking the Past: Experimental Histories in the Arts, University of Technology, Sydney Australia Women Art Patrons and Collectors Conference, Constructions of Death, Mourning and Memory Woodcliff Hills, New Jersey Paper: The Family Slide Show as Critical History in Renée Green s Partially Buried Continued INVITED LECTURER 2012 Rutgers University, Rutgers University Art History Graduate Student Organization, Distinguished Speaker Series Lecture: Frames of Memory: Photographs as Archives of 1970s Site-Specific Installation Art
2008 Boston University, Graduate Student Art History Association Guest Lecture Series Lecture Retro-Visions: Nostalgia in Recent Video Installations 2007 Memphis College of Art, Memphis, Tennessee The Family Slide Show as Critical History in Renée Green s Partially Buried Continued 2006 künstlerhaus büchsenhausen, Innsbrück, Austria Time Warp: Nostalgia as Critique in Contemporary Installation Art künstlerhaus büchsenhausen Innsbrück Austria Memory in Installation Art of the 1990s University of Innsbrück, Department of Art History, Innsbrück, Austria Between Memory and the Document: The Photograph in the Work of Renée Green 2004 Tufts University, Aidekman Arts Center Medford Massachusetts A Contemporary Art Historian s Take on the Amazing & the Immutable: Selections from the Collections of Robert Drapkin and Martin Margulies 34 th Annual Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Memory Problems in 1990s Installation Art 2003 New Voices: Forum on Gerhard Richter s Exhibition Hirshhorn Museum Forty Years of Painting Les Yeux du Monde Gallery, Charlottesville, Virginia Art and Memory VISITING CRITIC Visiting Critic for the Distinguished Majors Program McIntire Department of Art University of Virginia November 19-20, 2009 PANEL DISCUSSIONS Contemporary American Art History in a Global Context Disputing the Global: Art History s Future Panel Discussion Tufts University October 29, 2010. Art as Research A Salon Discussion for Mildred s Lane (Morgan Puett and Mark Dion) Renovating Walden Exhibition, Tufts University Art Gallery September 21, 2010.
What is the Meaning of Cosmic Energy? Panel Discussion on Ilya Kabakov and Emilia Kabokov s The Center of Cosmic Energy Tufts University Art Gallery November 1, 2007. Panel Discussion on Ralo Mayer, Multiplex Fiction: A Miniature Book of a Model Story künstlerhaus büchsenhausen, Innsbruck Austria June 30, 2006. GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS Faculty Research Awards Committee Grant in Aid Spring 2011 Resident Fellow künstlerhaus büchsenhausen Innsbruck, Austria, May 1-July 31, 2006 Dissertation Year Fellowship College of Arts & Sciences, University of Virginia, 2003-2004 Art History Graduate Student Teaching Award 2000-2001 Graduate Student Travel Grant 2001 UNIVERSITY SERVICE Director of Undergraduate Studies Department of Art History, 2010-2012 Transfer of Credit Advisor, 2010-2011 Master of Arts in Art History Application Review, 2010-2011 Tisch Library Committee, 2011-2012 Liberal Arts and Jackson Curricula Committee, 2010-2012 Graduate Student Research Awards Committee, Arts and Humanities Representative, 2009-2010 Art History Senior Honors Thesis Award Committee, 2009-2010 Art History Museum Studies Advisor, 2007-present Art History Minor Advisor, 2006-present University Gifts of Art Committee, 2006-2008 Tisch Library Rooftop Memorial Committee, 2006-2007 Master of Fine Arts Thesis Committees, Academic Advisor 2006-present Qualifying Paper Advisor, Masters of Art in Art History 2006-present Senior Honors Thesis Advisor 2006-present PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Academic Book Manuscript Reviewer Prentice Hall Books/Pearson Higher Education, 2010 Academic Reviewer, Frontiers: A Journal of Women s Studies, 2007 English Translation proofreader/final editor, publication Entering a Strange Field: Fabrics Interseason, Künstpavillon der Tiroler Künstlerschaft, 2006 Academic Reviewer, H.H. Arnason s History of Modern Art, 6 th Edition, Prentice Hall 2005 Artist Review Panel, Second Street Gallery, Charlottesville VA 2003-2004 Newcomb Hall Art Committee University of Virginia Spring 2001 Art History Graduate Student Faculty Representative University of Virginia 2000-2001
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS College Art Association Southeastern College Art Association/Mid-Atlantic College Art Association American Culture Association/Popular Culture Association Society for Photographic Education