Baroque 18th Century
BRUCE REDFORD
745 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 605
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 358-1779
Fax: (617) 353-5084
E-mail: bredford@bu.edu
curriculum vitae
University Professor; Professor of Art History and English, College of Arts and Sciences, Director of the University Professors Program. B.A., Brown University; B.A., King's College, Cambridge; Ph.D., Princeton University.
Professor Redford is a literary historian, editor, and critic, with a strong interest in classical studies and the visual arts. He has published essays on topics as diverse as medieval hagiography, rococo portraiture, and the religious poetry of W.H. Auden. During the past decade and a half, his scholarship has centered on eighteenth-century British culture. The Converse of the Pen: Acts of Intimacy in the Eighteenth-Century Familiar Letter (1986) was followed by The Letters of Samuel Johnson (five volumes, 1992-94), Venice and the Grand Tour (1996), and the second volume of Boswell's Life of Johnson: An Edition of the Original Manuscript (1998). In 2001/2002 he delivered the Lyell Lectures in bibliography at Oxford University; the lectures have been published as Designing the "Life of Johnson" (2002). A past president of the Johnson Society, he has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, All Souls College, Oxford, the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the National Humanities Center. In 2002 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
MICHAEL ZELL
725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 205B
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 353-1452
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: mzell@bu.edu
curriculum vitae
Associate Chair, Art History Department, Associate Professor; Baroque and Eighteenth-Century Art. BA, McGill University; PhD, Harvard University
Associate Professor Michael Zell received his Ph.D. from Harvard University's Department of Fine Arts in 1994 and has been teaching at Boston University since 1996. His area of research is seventeenth-century Dutch art, with a particular focus on Rembrandt. His book, Reframing Rembrandt: Jews and the Christian Image in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam was published by the University of California Press in 2002. He is the author of articles in the journals Art History, Simiolus and the Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, and has co-edited the volume Rethinking Rembrandt (2002), to which he contributed an essay on Rembrandt and gift giving. He has received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for his current book project For the Love of Art: Liefhebbers and Gift-Exchange in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art. Professor Zell teaches courses that cover a wide range of themes in his field of specialization, European art and architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He regularly offers the survey classes "Northern Baroque Art" and "Southern Baroque Art", as well as graduate and undergraduate seminars on focused topics such as Rembrandt, Vermeer, “Print Culture in Seventeenth-Century Holland”, and “The Alliance of Art and Power in the Baroque”.
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