Danielle Morin, PhD

Dr. Kristina Huneault is Professor of Art History at Concordia University, a former University Research Chair, and a founder of the Canadian Women Artists History Initiative.  She has an MA in Canadian art history from Concordia (1994) and a PhD in British visual culture from the University of Manchester (1998), where she was a Commonwealth scholar.  She has taught at Concordia since 1999 and was the university's emerging research fellow in 2004.  Dr. Huneault's approach to art combines detailed historical research with theoretical questioning and close looking. She is the author of I’m not myself at all: Women, art and subjectivity in Canada (MQUP) and Difficult Subjects: Working Women and Visual Culture, Britain 1880-1914 (Ashgate), the co-editor of Rethinking Professionalism: Women and Art in Canada (MQUP), and the author of numerous book chapters and journal articles on art, gender, and colonialism.   She is currently the Associate Dean, Faculty Relations & Inclusion, for the Faculty of Fine Arts.

Research & Teaching Interests

• Nineteenth-Century Art and Visual Culture
• Canadian Art
• Art-Historical Method
• Women Artists
• Art and Philosophy
• Art and Subjectivity
• Art and Colonialism

Distinctions & Awards

2010

• Marion Dewar Prize in Canadian Women's History

2004

• Concordia University Emerging Research Fellow
• Concordia University Research Chair in Art History

Undergraduate

• ARTH 200 Perspectives of Art History
• ARTH 300 Art Historical Methods
  
• ARTH 381 Feminism and Art History
• ARTH 366 Aspects of Nineteenth-Century Western Art and Architecture. Topic
• ARTH 400 Advanced Seminar in Art Historical Method: Telling Histories: Women and Art in Montreal

Graduate

• ARTH 800 Art History and its Methodologies
• ARTH 804 Writings on Art: Interpreting Subjectivities
• ARTH 804 Writings on Art: Readings in Continental Aesthetics
  
• ARTH 633 Creative and Critical Literature in Art History: Readings in continental aesthetics
• ARTH 626 Nationhood and Identity in Canadian Art: What is Settler Colonial Art History?
• ARTH 627 Feminism, Art, Art History: Canadian Women Artists
• ARTH 655 Thesis Seminar

Thesis Supervision

I am especially interested in topics that combine an interest in history with theoretically-driven questioning.  Any nineteenth-century project is particularly welcome, as are those that engage with subjectivity or aesthetic philosophy, the visual history of colonialism, the cultural encounter with the natural world, or the method and history of art history.  For students with an interest in women and art in Canada I can offer the opportunity to participate in an active research network.

I am currently supervising graduate theses on: canonicity in feminist art history; women's albums in 19th c. Quebec; art conservation as performance; Canadian crystal palaces; fat female bodies in contemporary art; the aesthetics of finitude in contemporary art; lesbian self-representation.

MA THESES COMPLETED

2018
Alena Krasnikova, “Julia Biriukova and the Lumberman in the National Vision of Canada in the 1930s.” 

2017
Aditi Ohri, “Recognition on Settler Terms: The Canadian Handicrafts Guildand First Nations Craft from 1900 to 1967."

Barbara Wisnoski, “An Aesthetics of Everything Else: Flat Ontologies and the Everyday."

2015       

Chantale Poitié, “To Make Sense of a World: Translation, Germaine Koh, Globalization."

Pamela Mackenzie, “The Fourth Kingdom: Art and Agency in Plastic."

2014       

Jason Klimock, ”Beyond Beauty: A Philosophic Consideration of Victorian Era Atlantic Salmon Flies."

Eliana Stratica Mihail, “I Don’t: The Commodification of the Bride in Montreal Art from the 1970s."

2013       

Taylor Leedahl, “Aganetha Dyck and the Honeybees: The Evolution of an Interspecies Creative Collaboration."

2010       

Wendy Butler, “James Earl Fraser’s The End of the Trail: Affect and the Persistence of an Iconic Indian Image."

2006       

David Capell, “OnExperience in the Art of Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller."

Kathryn Beattie, “Aspects of Acceptance and Denial in Posthumous Painted Portraits and Postmortem Photographs of Nineteenth-Century Children."

Julie Boivin, “The Aesthetics of Frivolity: Reinvesting in Balloons, Cake Icing, Bows, Ribbons and Trinkets."

2005       

Avery Larose, “The Fragmented City: The Urban Landscapes of Eleanor Bond, Brenda Pelkey and Janet Cardiff."

John Latour, “Manifestations of the Absent Figure in Canadian Sculpture since the Seventies." 

Melinda Reinhart, “Lady Falkland’s Travel Album: Negotiating Colonial and Feminine Discourses."

2004       

Peter Gallo, “Epistemological regularities of the surface gaze in the works of MichelFoucault and Clement Greenberg."

2000       

Carolyn Cross, “BodyMarking within New France: A Contemporary Perspective."

PhD THESES COMPLETED

2016

Kathryn Simpson, Monsters in the Mirror: Strategies of Ugliness in Early-Twentieth-Century Viennese Self-Portraiture

2012

Peter Gallo, "Bio-Aesthetics and the Artist as Case History."

Rosika Desnoyers, "A Genealogy of Pictorial Berlin Work: A History of Errors." (Humanities program)

2006

Marie Shurkus, "Appropriation Art: Moving Images, Presenting Difference." (Humanities program)