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faculty
ann bermingham, professor
specialization
18th and 19th- century European art, particularly British art
office hours
Arts 1214, Wednesdays 4:00-5:00 & by appointment
phone
805 893 7588
B.A. Manhattanville College
M.A. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Ph.D. Harvard University
Ann Bermingham received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Her first book, Landscape and Ideology: The English Rustic Tradition, 1760-1860 was published by the University of California Press in 1986. As the Clark Professor at UCLA she collaborated with Professor John Brewer on an NEH sponsored workshop in the consumption of culture in the early modern period. The papers from that workshop were published as The Consumption of Culture, 1600-1800: Image, Object, Text (Routledge, 1995). Her most recent book, Learning to Draw: Studies in the History of a Polite and Useful Art (Yale University Press 2000) examines the history of drawing as a social practice in Britain from the Renaissance to the invention of photography. Learning to Draw won the best book award from the Historians of British Art and was named one of the outstanding Academic titles for the year by Choice. Her interests include the history of landscape painting, the gendering of artistic practices, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century aesthetic theory and popular visual spectacles, and the history of emotions. In 2004 and 2007 she co-taught a Mellon Summer Seminar at the Getty Research Institute with Professor Mary Sheriff of UNC Chapel Hill on the cult of sensibility in eighteenth-century England and France. An exhibition on this subject curated by her and entitled "Sensation and Sensibility: Viewing Gainsborough's Cottage Door" opened at the Yale Center for British Art in October 2005 and traveled to the Huntington in February 2006. In conjunction with the exhibition, a collection of essays edited by her was published by Yale University Press. Before coming to UCSB in 1993 Ann Bermingham taught at UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside and UC Santa Cruz.
undergraduate courses
Art and the French Revolution
Eighteenth-Century British Art
Romanticism in Britain
Victorian Art
Gainsborough
Art of Horror and the Imagination
Western Art of the Modern Period
graduate seminars
2001
The Pre-Raphaelites and Pre-Raphaelitism
2002
The Gothic: Style and Sensibility in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century Art
2003
British Modernism, 1870-1945
2004 and 2007
Sensibility/Sensibilité in Eighteenth-Century England and France (A Mellon Summer Seminar co-taught with Professor Mary Sheriff at the Getty Research Institute)
2007
Genre Painting in Britain and the United States (co-taught with Professor Bruce Robertson)
