Colleen Denney
Colleen Denney | |
---|---|
Born | Colleen Jo Denney |
Occupation(s) | Art historian Educator |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Louisiana State University University of Minnesota |
Thesis | Exhibition Reforms and Systems: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890 (1990) |
Doctoral advisor | Gabriel P. Weisberg |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art history |
Sub-discipline | British art |
Institutions | University of Wyoming |
Colleen Jo Denney is an American art historian and educator. A scholar of British art during the Victorian era, Denney is Professor of Art History and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wyoming.
Career
Denney graduated from Louisiana State University with both a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Arts in Art History in 1981 and 1983, respectively. She then continued on to the University of Minnesota to receive a Doctor of Philosophy in Art History in 1990.[1] Denney wrote a master's thesis on the photographs of Edgar Degas, and her doctoral dissertation was on Grosvenor Gallery, supervised by Gabriel P. Weisberg.[2]
Upon receiving the doctorate, Denney was hired as Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Wyoming. Seven years later, she was promoted to Associate Professor, and then to full Professor in 2005. Four years after that, Denney was also jointly appointed as Professor of Gender and Women's Studies. She has spent her entire teaching career at Wyoming.[3]
Select works
- The Grosvenor Gallery: A Palace of Art in Victorian England, Yale University Press, 1996 ISBN 978-0300067521
- At the Temple of Art: The Grosvenor Gallery, 1877-1890, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000 ISBN 9780838638507
- Representing Diana, Princess of Wales: Cultural Memory and Fairy Tales Revisited, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005 ISBN 9780838640234
- Women, Portraiture, and the Crisis of Identity in Victorian England: My Lady Scandalous Reconsidered, Ashgate Publishing, 2009 ISBN 9780754668794
See also
References
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Use mdy dates from August 2023
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- Living people
- Louisiana State University alumni
- University of Minnesota alumni
- University of Wyoming faculty
- American art historians
- American women art historians
- American women non-fiction writers
- American women academics
- 21st-century American women
- Year of birth missing (living people)