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Todd M. Richardson

todd richardson

Art History
Assistant Professor
Graduate Advisor Art History
OFFICE: Art & Communication 244C
PH: 901/678-4891
FAX: 901/678-2735
EMAIL: tmrchrds@memphis.edu

EDUCATION

October 2007
Ph.D. Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
Art History

May 2003
M.A. Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California
History of Art and Religion

May 2000
M.A. Memphis Theological Seminary, Memphis, Tennessee
Religious Studies, Summa Cum Laude

August 1995
B.A. University of Mississippi, Oxford
Major: Philosophy; Minor: Studio Art, Cum Laude

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Present:
Fall 2008 – Assistant Professor, Renaissance and Baroque Art History, University of Memphis

2003-2008
Instructor, Universiteit Leiden, Netherlands
Graduate seminars: Fall of the Idol: Iconoclasm and the Visual Culture of the Reformation; Sanctification of the Self: Habits of Viewing Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600

Undergraduate Seminars: Albrecht Dürer and the Concept of a Renaissance Artist; Aesthetics and Religion, 1400-1700; Vision and Paradox in the Work of Pieter Bruegel the Elder

PUBLICATIONS

Books:
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Art Discourse in the Sixteenth-Century Netherlands (Aldershot, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers

Edited Books:

Co-editor, The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Arts and Literature, in Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2012)

www.brill.com/turn-soul

Co-editor, The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts, in Intersections: Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture (Leiden: Brill, 2011)

www.brill.com/transformation-vernacular-expression-early-modern-arts

Co-editor, Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2007).

Articles:

"Early Modern Hands: Gesture in the Work of Jan van Hemessen," in Walter Melion and Michel Weemans, Ab historia proprie figurative: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700 (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming)

"Landscaping the Soul: Pieter Bruegel's Conversion of St. Paul," in Denis Ribouillault and Michel Weemans (eds), Paysage sacré et exégèse visuelle / Sacred Landscape and Visual Exegesis (Florence: Leo S. Olsch, 2011), 51-66

"Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Vernacular Cultivation," in Bart Ramakers (ed.), Understanding Art in Antwerp (Leuven: Peeters, 2010).

"To See Yourself Within It: Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Festival of Fools," in Reindert Falkenburg, Walter Melion and Todd Richardson, Image and Imagination of the Religious Self in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, (2007), 277-305.

Catalogue and Dictionary Entries:
Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in Netherlandish Prints of the Sixteenth Century, James Clifton and Walter Melion (eds.), New York: Museum of Biblical Art, 2009 (10 entries).

“Medieval Mysticism,” “Medieval Women’s Mysticism,” “Geert Grote,” “Thomas á Kempis,” “Florentius Radewijns,” Beatris of Nazareth,” “Jan van Ruysbroek,” “Marguerite Porrete,” in New Westminster Dictionary for Church History (Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2010).

Book Reviews:
Walter Gibson, Pieter Bruegel and the Art of Laughter, Berkeley: University of California, Berkeley (2006), in Historians of Netherlandish Art, vol. 24, no. 2 (2007), 21-22.

Alison G. Stewart, Before Bruegel: Sebald Beham and the Origin of Peasant Festival Imagery (Aldershot, UK/Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishers, 2008), in College Art Association (caa.reviews online, Summer 2009).

Margaret Carroll, Painting and Politics in Northern Europe: Van Eyck, Bruegel, Rubens, and their Contemporaries (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008) in Historians of Netherlandish Art Bulletin, vol. 26, no. 2 (2009)

In Preparation:

Co-editor, The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Religious Conversion in Early Modern Art and Literature, Leiden: Brill Publishers (under contract, forthcoming).

Co-editor, The Transformation of Vernacular Expression in Early Modern Arts and Scholarship, Leiden: Brill Publishers (under contract, forthcoming).

SELECTED FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS / GRANTS

2011-2012 Professional Development Assignment, University of Memphis

2011 Tennessee Arts Commission/Arts Memphis Grant

2009 Lindsay Young Visiting Fellow, Marco Institute for Medieval and 

Renaissance Studies, University of Tennessee

2009 Faculty Course Redesign Fellowship, FedEx Insitute of

Technology, University of Memphis

2009 Faculty Research Grant, University of Memphis

2009 New Faculty Research Initiative Grant, University of Memphis

2009 Historians of Netherlandish Art Research Award

2007 Post Doctoral Fellow, Universiteit Leiden

2004 Pallas Research Institute two-year pre-doctoral research grant

(AiO), Universiteit Leiden

2003-05 Samuel H. Kress two-year pre-doctoral institutional fellowship

2003 J. William Fulbright Research Scholarship

SELECTED CONFERENCE PANELS

Session Chair, "Trading Values: Perceptions of Antwerp in the Wake of its Fall," Sixteenth Century Conference, Cincinnati, OH, October 25-28, 2012

Session co-organizer and co-chair, "'Picture Perfect': Truth, Falsity, and the Polemics of Image Making and Image Breaking in the Early Modern World," Southeastern College Art Conference, Richmond, VA, October 20-24, 2010

Session co-organizer and co-chair, "Antwerp and its Boundaries, 1550-1570," Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 27-29, 2010

Session organizer and chair, "The Turn of the Soul: Representations of Conversion in the Arts," Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference, Venice, Italy, April 7-10, 2010

Session Chair, "Disrupting Reality: Limiting Pictorial Illusion in Early Modern Art," College Art Association 97th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA, February 25-28, 2009

Session co-organizer and chair, "Artistic Consciousness and the Emerging Art Theoretical Discourse in Painting, 1400-1700," Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference, Baltimore, November 8-11, 2006

Conference co-organizer, "Formulating a Response: Methods of Research on Italian and Northern European Art, 1400-1600," International Conference, Universiteit Leiden, April 20-22, 2006

SELECTED PAPER PRESENTATIONS / INVITED LECTURES

Jan 2013 Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Conference: Le monde vu d'en haut/The World from Above: nouvelles études et approches du paysage monde/new studies and approaches of the world landscape tradition, Paper title: "Pieter Bruegel Landscapes: Symbolic Highlands in the Lowlands (co-presenter with Prof. Larry Silver)

May 2012 Universiteit Groningen (Netherlands), Conference: Trading Values: Cultural Translation in Early Modern Antwerp, Paper title: "Pieter Aertsen's Pancake Eaters: Trading Values or the Value of a Trade"

May 2012 Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), Paper title: "Jan van Hemessen: Gesture and the Performance of Devotion in Sixteenth-Century Antwerp"

Feb 2012 Emory University, Lovis Corinth Art History Colloquium: Ab historia proprie figurative: Visual Images as Exegetical Instruments, 1400-1700, Paper title: "Hemessen's Hands"

Dec 2009 Emory University, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, GA; Paper title: "Turn of the Soul: the Iconography of Religious Conversion"

Jan 2008  Universiteit Groningen, Conference: "Understanding Art in Antwerp," Paper title: "Pieter Bruegel's Vienna Peasant Dance and the Reception of Italianate Bacchanalia in the Netherlands"

June 2007  Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Conference: "Sacred Landscape and Visual Exegesis in Early Modern Europe;" Paper title: "Pieter Bruegel the Elder and the Matter of Conversion"

March 2007  Cambridge University (Clare College), Conference: "Invention, Intention, Persuasion: Forms of Self-Expression in Renaissance Arts and Letters," Paper title: "Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Vernacular Style"

April 2006  Universiteit Leiden, Conference: "Formulating a Response: Methods of Research on Italian and Northern European Art;" Paper title: "Beyond Nature: Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Peasants as Artistic Statement"

Feb 2006  College Art Association, Boston, MA; Paper title: "The Function of Inter-Pictorial Discourse in the Art of Pieter Bruegel the Elder"

Oct 2005  Sixteenth Century Conference, Atlanta, GA; Paper title: "Re-Imagining Reality: The Performance of Interpretation in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Festival of Fools"