JONATHAN P. RIBNER

725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 210B
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-1465
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: jribner@bu.edu

curriculum vitae

Director of Graduate Admissions; Associate Professor; Nineteenth-Century and Modern Art. B.A., Middlebury College; Ph.D. New York University.

Professor Ribner was appointed to the faculty as an Assistant Professor in 1985. A specialist in European painting and sculpture of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Professor Ribner researches the art of France and England in relation to the history of politics, law, literature, religion, and science. The author of Broken Tablets: The Cult of the Law in French Art from David to Delacroix (University of California Press, 1993), he is currently working on a book concerned with art and Anglo-French rivalry in the age of Victoria. He regularly presents papers at the annual meetings of the College Art Association and the Colloquium in Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and has published articles and book reviews in The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, The British Art Journal, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, and The American Historical Review. He teaches two courses each semester, including one graduate course, and the modern section of the spring survey course. In addition to AH 790 "Colloquium in 19th-Century Art, Professor Ribner offers courses with various topics under the rubric AH 889 "Seminar in 19th-Century Art. These topics include "Art and Nationalism in Europe, 1774-1900," "Impressionism through Symbolism," and "The Age of Victoria." Professor Ribner also teaches a graduate seminar in the art of Picasso. He has served as first reader for two dissertations on 19th-century European art, and has regularly been the advisor for Master's Scholarly Papers in topics covering twentieth-century and contemporary art, as well as that of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Professor Ribner was awarded a Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. from the American Council of Learned Societies (1987) and Junior Fellowships from the Humanities Foundation, Boston University (1993-94, 1987-88).