Catherine M. Soussloff

Background

Catherine Soussloff was born on April 8, 1951 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States; the daughter of Dimitri Gregory Soussloff, an engineer, and Barbara L. (Farr) Soussloff, a homemaker.

Education

Catherine M. Soussloff received a Bachelor of Arts and a Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Bryn Mawr College. She also attended the Johns Hopkins University.

Career

Catherine M. Soussloff began her career at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg as an assistant professor of art history in 1983. Three years later, she became a visiting lecturer in art history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From 1987 to 1991, Catherine served at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as an assistant professor, later becoming an associate professor. In 1997, she was appointed a professor of art history and visual culture. Till 2010, Soussloff held prestigious posts of the University of California Presidential Chair in Visual and Performance Studies and the first Patricia and Rowland Rebele Chair in the History of Art. In 2010, she became Head of the Department at the University of British Columbia. Currently, she is a Professor of Art History, Visual Art and Theory and Associate at the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the same university.

Soussloff also served as Chair of the Editorial Board of the Art Journal (College Art Association of America) and she was a founding book reviews editor of Images: Journal of Jewish Art and Visual Culture. Soussloff's most recent publications have focused on contemporary art, performance, Picasso's late work and the aesthetic theories of the French philosopher Michel Foucault. Her book on Michel Foucault and painting theory in the twentieth century was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2017. Her edited volume, Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century, published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2016, includes twelve essays by experts in six disciplines and an introduction and essay on Gilles Deleuze's views of Foucault's contribution to philosophy, written by Soussloff.

Achievements

• Professor Soussloff has been a recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including those from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Getty Research Institute, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the College Art Association of America, the Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute for the Humanities at New York University.

Works

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  • Foucault on Painting

    (Michel Foucault had been concerned about painting and the...)

    2017
  • Foucault on the Arts and Letters: Perspectives for the 21st Century

    (As one of the most important philosophers of the 20th cen...)

    2016
  • Absolute Artist: The Historiography of a Concept

    (This is the first book to analyze the artist's biography ...)

    1997
  • The Subject in Art: Portraiture and the Birth of the Modern

    (Challenging prevailing theories regarding the birth of th...)

    2006

Views

Catherine M. Soussloff's research explores the historiography, theory and philosophy of art and visual culture in the European tradition from the Early Modern period (circa 1400) to the present.

Membership

Catherine M. Soussloff is a member of the College Art Association of America, the Renaissance Society of America, American Society for Aesthetics and Sixteenth Century Studies Society.

Connections

Catherine Soussloff married B. Neil S. Clarke in February, 1983. Eight years later, they divorced. Catherine married William J. Nichols on June 25, 1994. She has a daughter from the first marriage - Eugenia Louise.

Father:

Dimitri Gregory Soussloff

Mother:

Barbara L. (Farr) Soussloff

Spouse:

William J. Nichols

ex-spouse:

B. Neil S. Clarke

Daughter:

Eugenia Louise Clarke