At Spiral Jetty

At Spiral Jetty
Assistant Professor of Practice, Modern and Contemporary Art History
Mailing address:
120 Richards Hall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0114

Office: Woods 207B

Email: mvigneault2@unl.edu

Research Interests

  • Feminist Art, 1960s to present
  • Body and Text in Contemporary Art
  • Psychoanalytic Theory

Teaching Areas

Modern European and American Art; Contemporary Global Art

Courses regularly taught:

Modern and Contemporary Art; 19th Century European Art; 20th Century European Art; Art Since 1945; Postmodernism

Degrees and institutions granting the degree

PhD History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
MA Art History, American University
BA Art, Hood College (Maryland)

Selected Publications and Presentations

  • “Are You Qualified?,” Women’s Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal (special issue: What is the Woman Artist Today?) v. 41 n. 8 (November 2012): 891-903.

  • “The Porous Space of Bracha L. Ettinger’s Eurydices” in Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, ed. Jennie Hirsh and Isabelle D. Wallace (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2011): 111-33.

  • Shocking Collisions: The Artistic Strategy of Shock Across Historical Distance, Co-Chair of Session (with Carrie Robbins, Bryn Mawr College), SECAC, Durham, NC, October 17-20, 2012.

  • Hannah Wilke’s Performative Text. SECAC, Savannah, GA, November 2011. Session: More Than Skin Deep: Body and Text in Feminist Art, moderated by Kathleen Wentrack.

  • Re: Post (Feminism).  Presented at the Brooklyn Museum of Art Feminism Now Symposium, Brooklyn, NY, March 2009.

  • The Porous Space of Bracha Ettinger’s Eurydices (1999-2001).  Presented at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Graduate Student Symposium, Philadelphia, PA, April 2008.

  • Building a New America: William Gropper’s Construction of a Dam.  Invited talk; Presented at The Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C., February 2008.

Contemporary Art and Classical Myth
“The Porous Space of Bracha L. Ettinger’s Eurydices” in Contemporary Art and Classical Myth, ed. Jennie Hirsh and Isabelle D. Wallace (London: Ashgate Publishing, 2011).