Craig Eliason, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Modern Art
Department of Art History
University of St. Thomas
Mail 57P
2115 Summit Ave.
Saint Paul, MN 55105

651-962-5595
651-962-5861 FAX

Webpage: http://personal.stthomas.edu/cdeliason/
Email: cdeliason@stthomas.edu
Creator and maintainer, Art Historians’ Guide to the Movies, 1997–present

Education

Rutgers University New Brunswick, NJ

Ph.D., Art History, January 2002
Dissertation: “The Dialectic of Dada and Constructivism: Theo van Doesburg and the Dadaists, 1920–1930”
Dissertation committee: Jack Spector, Joan Marter, Matthew Baigell, Carel Blotkamp
M.A., Art History, January 1996
Master’s thesis: “Mounting Opposition: John Heartfield’s Photomontages and Politics”

Amherst College Amherst, MA

B.A. magna cum laude, Fine Arts, May 1991
Honors thesis: “Art and Artifice: Roy Lichtenstein’s Comic-Book Paintings, 1961–65”

Publications

“Theo van Doesburg: Italian Futurist?”
In The Low Countries: Crossroads of Culture, ed. Ton Broos and Thomas F. Shannon
(Münster: Nodus, 2006), 47–56.

“Manifestoes by Mail: Postcards from the Theo van Doesburg Correspondence”
Visual Resources, 17 no. 4 (December 2001): 449–458.

“De conferenties van 1922: Tristan Tzara als Van Doesburgs saboteur”
[The Conferences of 1922: Tristan Tzara as Van Doesburg’s Saboteur]
Jong Holland (The Hague) 16 no. 2 (Spring 2000), 31–37, 66–67.

Exhibitions

“Face the Nation: How National Identity Shaped Modern Typeface Design,” Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minneapolis, July 12–September 20, 2008

“Renovation: UST Chapels After Sacrosanctum Concilium,” OEC Lobby Gallery, University of St. Thomas, October 11–31, 2003

Fellowships and grants

UST Faculty Development, Maxi-Grant, 2006; Teaching Enhancement Grant, 2004; Sudden Opportunity Grant, 2004

UST Luann Dummer Center for Women, Curriculum Development Grant, 2005

U.S. Department of State, U.S. Speaker and Specialist Grant, 2000

Netherland-America Foundation, Education Committee exchange grant, 1998–99

Rutgers University, Dissertation Fellowship, 1998–99

Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Graduate Fellowship, 1997–98

Conference presentations

Modernist Studies Association
2007 Annual Conference, Long Beach, CA
“Eric Gill and the Humanist Sans-Serif: For and Against Modernism”

College Art Association
2007 Annual Meeting, New York, NY
“Building an Understanding of Architectural History”

Obermann Center for Advanced Studies
2005 Collage as Cultural Practice Conference, Iowa City, IA
“From AIZ to .JPG: Echoes of Heartfield in the Photoshopping Scene”

American Association of Netherlandic Studies
2004 Twelfth Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, Minneapolis, MN
“‘What is Dada????????’: Theo van Doesburg and the 1923 Dada Tour”

American Association of Netherlandic Studies
2002 Eleventh Interdisciplinary Conference on Netherlandic Studies, Ann Arbor, MI
“Theo van Doesburg, Italian Futurist?”

College Art Association
2001 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
“Manifestos by Mail: Postcards in the Theo van Doesburg Archive”

Invited lectures

“Best Teaching of Our Best Professors" Workshop
University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
“What is Art History?”

Associated Colleges of the Twin Cities
2003 ACTC Art History Symposium, St. Paul, MN
“Promotion and Subversion: Kurt Schwitters’ Avant-Garde Logo”

Dutch Postgraduate School for Art History and University of Amsterdam
2000 Symposium Theo van Doesburg, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
“Spin Control: Rotation and Revolution in Van Doesburg’‘s Art”

U.S. Embassy, Warsaw and Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin
2000 “Art Matters in Teaching American Studies” Conference, Pulawy, Poland
“Abstract Art Since Pollock”
“Pop and the Commodity as Art”
“New Media, New Voices, New Controversies”

Professional affiliations

College Art Association

Modernist Studies Association

American Printing History Association

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing

Design Studies Forum