In June 1941, a Central Press wire story declared, “The latest and strangest recruit in Uncle Sam’s defense line-up is—the museum!” The release quoted the …
This dissertation examines ekphrasis in literary modernism?the verbal representation of visual artworks. In modernist studies the relationship between literature and painting has long been conceived …
The New England coast is an ideal space to understand the relationship between history, heritage, and tourism in creating a sense of place. Tourists have …
Abstract of Museums working for Social Justice: Resonance and Wonder by Elena Gonzales, Ph.D., Brown University, May 2015 Museums can and do work for social …
Despite their colonial legacies of extraction, museums have served as critical sites of engagement in grappling with global issues and hold the potential to propel …
“Seeing Feeling: The Work of Empathy in Exhibition Spaces” questions the work of empathy, or, rather, what work empathy does in making sense of aesthetic …
Phrenology, the nineteenth-century practice of reading a person’s character from the shape of their skull, exemplifies “participatory knowledge,” a democratized mode of scientific exchange. As …