Allison Leigh is an Assistant Professor of Art History in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She is a specialist in 18th and 19th-century European and Russian art and is currently completing her first book, a cross-cultural study of masculinity which focuses on how Russian painters depicted modern life in the nineteenth century. She received a B.A. in Art History and Russian Studies from American University in Washington D.C. and completed an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History at Rutgers University, where she also served as a Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Russian and Soviet Art at the Zimmerli Art Museum. She has curated several exhibitions and published on topics ranging from the role of nostalgia in Soviet-era conceptual art to the state of exhibitionary opportunities for contemporary women artists. Her primary research interests include the development of new art historical methodologies, masculinity studies, the philosophy of art and aesthetics, and the nexus of art theory and intellectual history in the modern era. A recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she formerly taught in the Department of Art and Design at Montclair State University, in the Department of Art History at Rutgers University, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
Upcoming Courses:
Russian, Soviet, and Central Asian Art: 1700-1991 Masculinities: Painting and Performing Gender Past: Art Appreciation Introduction to Modern Art Modern to Contemporary: An Introduction to Art History (1789-1900) An Introduction to Art History (1900-2016) Introductory Survey to Art History: Renaissance to Contemporary Survey of the Arts II: Renaissance through Modern Studies in Art History: Single Year Seminar - 1820 Studies in Art History: ORIENTALISM Single Artist Seminar: Edouard Manet Single-Artist Seminar: Jacques-Louis David Synartesis Realism How Art Teaches You to See What is Art? (And Who Decides?) Women and Art Modern Philosophies of Art |
September 11-15, 2017 | Montréal, Canada
"Nationalist Rhetoric and Occidentalist Longing in 18th-Century Russian Painting" Cité et Citoyenneté des Lumières. Séminaire International des Jeunes Dix-Huitièmistes. L'Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) October 13-15, 2017 | New York “Kazimir Malevich’s White on White: Provenance and Shifts in Revolutionary Perception” America’s Seminal Red Scare: The United States and the Perception of the Russian Revolution, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York November 9 -12, 2017 | Chicago “Orientalism Reoriented: Karl Briullov and Hybrid Identity before the Mid-19th Century” Panel: Changing Narratives of 19th-Century Russian Art Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) 2017 Convention March 22-24, 2018 | New Orleans “Sutured Experiences: Binding Art and Spectator in 15th-Century Portraiture” Panel: New Thoughts on Art and Spectator in Renaissance Italy Renaissance Society of America (RSA) Conference 
Leigh on Blakesley and Samu
*** From Realism to the Silver Age: New Studies in Russian Artistic Culture, eds. Rosalind Blakesley and Margaret Samu (Northern Illinois University Press, 2014) Leigh on Blakesley
*** The Russian Canvas: Painting in Imperial Russia, 1757-1878 by Rosalind Blakesley (Yale University Press, 2016) |
Essay: "Future Ruins: Time, Memory and History in the Work of Komar and Melamid"
University of Pittsburgh | Studies in Slavic Cultures Journal, Issue 8 (August 2009) Curator's Essay to Catalog for the Exhibition "Jersey Women Artists Now," Montclair State University (March 2014)
'Embodied Memories: The Work of Trauma in Art," Newsletter Essay discussing symposium on art at trauma at the Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ (Spring 2011)
“Russian Occidentalism: The Hybrid Self in Eighteenth-Century Russian Portraiture”
(to be published in the anthology Terms: Proceedings of the 34th World Congress of Art History, edited by Zhu Qingsheng (Beijing: CIHA Congress) **forthcoming in late 2017** “Il'ia Repin in Paris:
Mediating French Modernity” (Article solicited for a cluster on transnational connections in Russian art) **estimated in fall 2018** “Blood, Skin, and Paint:
Karl Briullov in 1832” (Article solicited for publication in a forthcoming anthology) **estimated in spring 2019** “Men’s Time:
Pavel Fedotov and the Pressures of Mid-19th-Century Masculinity” (Article solicited for a cluster on 'Gender and Sexuality in 19th-Century Russian Literature & Art) **estimated in spring 2018** |
Recent News
Dr. Leigh began her new appointment at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the fall of 2016.
See the announcement here: http://visualarts.louisiana.edu/news-events/news/20160731/department-visual-arts-welcomes-new-art-history-faculty-assistant 
Dr. Leigh received the
Leonardo Award for "Best Emerging Researcher Presentation" at the International conference 'Re-Create Media Art Histories: Theories, Methods and Practices of Research Creation in the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology' (Montréal, Canada | 6 November 2015) WATCH THE PANEL HERE >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0gEfPwMu_g 
Dr. Leigh was featured for the 'Member Spotlight' by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) organization.
http://www.aseees.org/membership/allison-leigh |
Dr. Leigh's book is structured around eight case studies of paintings by four Russian artists: Fyodor Slavyansky, Pavel Fedotov, Ilya Repin, and Ivan Kramskoy. For more information, contact: allison.leigh@louisiana.edu 
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