Loren Lerner - Concordia University

Research areas: print culture, digital culture, curatorial practices, Canadian art history, representation, portraiture, self-portrait, childhood, girlhood, youth culture, contemporary art and religion, history of the avant-garde, drawing, social history, travel art, images of aging, diaspora, post-holocaust Jewry, Jerusalem in art and architecture, art history student publications

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Email:

loren.lerner@concordia.ca

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Office hours: by appointment

Biography

Loren Lerner brings to the Department a cross-disciplinary formation in art history (MA, University of Michigan), library science (MLS, McGill University), and communication studies (PhD, Université de Montréal). Nineteenth- and twentieth-century European, North American and Middle Eastern art are the main areas of her undergraduate teaching, with an emphasis on the history of cities, social issues and collective memory and topics ranging from political consciousness, identity development, gender and class to the modern experience of otherness, nature, and sexuality. In her graduate teaching she has concentrated on ethnic, diasporic and ethical consciousness in North American art-making and the curatorial practices relating to Canadian art. Lerner was editor for Afterimage:Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature/Rémanences: Evocations de l'Holocauste dans les arts et littérature canadiens contemporains (Montreal: Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2002)and guest curator of Memories and Testimonies/Memoires et Témoignages (Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, April 2002, travelling exhibition). In 2005, Lerner curated the Sam Borenstein retrospective exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and Picturing Her: Images of Girlhood / Salut les filles: La jeune fille en images at the McCord Museum. She was the editor of Depicting Canada's Children published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press in 2009. Journal articles and essays from 2007 to 2018 on images of young people appear in Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970, Canadian Children’s Literature, Journal of Canadian Art History, Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, Girlhood Studies, Historical Studies in Education, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada,Healing the World’s Children and Girlhood and the Politics of Place. An interest in Canadian art publications, first manifested in Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature (University of Toronto Press, 1991), more recently inspired her article on “William Notman’s Photographic Selections (1863),” analyzing this compilation as the first history of art book published in Canada. This article was published in JCAH/AHAC 33:1 (2012). Research on the intersections of art and religion resulted in her guest editorship, in 2012, of a special issue on contemporary art and religion for JCAH/AHAC33:2 (2012). A pedagogical commitment to student web publishing has guided Lerner’s teaching and the development of websites such as Public Art as Social Intervention: But Now I Have to Speak - Testimonies of Trauma and Resilience funded by Canada Council, Canadian Artists of Eastern European Origin funded by a Canadian Heritage Multiculturalism Canada research grant, Canada’s Got Treasures funded by Industry Canada in association with the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), Family Works funded by the Faculty of Fine Arts and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Metro Borduas, Ensemble,An Exhibition of Art and Jazz, Canadian Portraits, and Picturing Children and Youth: A Canadian Perspective funded by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute of Studies on Canadian Art as well as Global Engagements in Contemporary Canadian Art: Thirty-Nine Exhibition Essays and Fifty-Five Artists, Rethinking Visual Narration:Myths, Religious Stories, Fairy Tales, Legends and Other Collective Beliefs and Accounts in Contemporary Canadian Art and Envisioning Virtual Exhibitions hosted on the Institute's CCCA Academy website.

Areas of Expertise

History of Cities
On-line Curation
Images of Children and Youth
Print Culture
Travel Art

Distinctions & Awards

2004

The Joseph and Faye Tannenbaum Prize in Scholarship on a Jewish Subject, Canadian Jewish Book Awards, for Afterimage

1998

Melva Dwyer Award honouring outstanding reference works devoted to the history of the visual arts in Canada, for Canadian Film and Video

1993

Melva Dwyer Award honouring outstanding reference works devoted to the history of the visual arts in Canada, for Art and Architecture in Canada

1992

Janet Braide Award, presented for an outstanding contribution to scholarship in the field of Canadian art history
Thirteenth George Wittenborn Memorial Award, presented for publishing excellence to University of Toronto Press

Research activities

Current Research

Loren Lerner's current research interests are quite diverse. She is attentive to digital culture and its effects on the role of the curator in offering new environments for the presentation and analysis of visual media. The history of the city is a new field of exploration with an emphasis on how artists have responded to an urban geography that encompasses social, economic and environmental influences and perspectives that take into account the imaginary transformations of lived experiences. The convergence of contemporary art and religion continues to be a focal interest, in particular the responses of artists to religious issues in the Middle East. Analyzing the visual representations of children and youth remains a long term research commitment.

Publications

"The Ethical Development of Boys in Rousseau’s Emile and Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s Artworks." Lumen 32 (accepted for publication, 2021).

"Authority and Agency." In Adriana Benzaquén, ed. A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment (accepted for publication, Bloomsbury Press, 2021).

"The Infant, the Mother, and the Breast in thePaintings of Marguerite Gérard." InDomines Veliki M., Duffy C., eds. Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy,Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50429-8_4

"George Agnew Reid's Paintings in Relation to EnglishCanadian Collective Memories of Rural Childhood in Nineteenth- andEarly-Twentieth-Century Canada." Our Rural Selves: Memory and the Visual inCanadian Childhoods, Claudia Mitchell and April Mandrona, eds.Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019, pp. 20-40.

"The Canadian Jewish Connection to the Visual Narrativeof Nationhood at the Jewish Palestine Pavilion in New York (1939) and theIsrael Pavilion and Pavilion of Judaism in Montreal (1967), CanadianJewish Studies 26 (Fall 2018): 135-153.

Guest editor for a special issue on Children in MuseumSettings for the Journal of the History of Children and Youth (Fall2018). "Guest Editor's Introduction: Children in Museum Settings." Journalof the History of Childhood and Youth, 11 no. 3 (2018):289-297.

"The Manipulation of Indigenous Imagery to RepresentCanadian Childhood and Nationhood in 19th Century Canada." NineteenthCentury Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives,Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith Ellis, eds. OxBow Books, 2018, pp. 15-33.

Author of the catalogue essay. CanadianArt: A Child's World, Annual Loan Exhibition, October 28 -November 11,2017. Montreal: Galerie Eric Klinkhoff. http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/3396d0_5cd14e6ad33c4c6ca8f905a426fda7c0.pdf

Editor, RethinkingVisual Narration, CCCA Academy,2016.https://visualnarration.wordpress.com/

Editor, FamilyWorks, A Website Produced in Partnership with Concordia University andthe Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2016. http://familyworks.hybrid.concordia.ca/

"'What This Picture of a Girl Means to Me': The Place of Girlhood Images in theArt History University Classroom." In Girlhood and the Politics ofPlace. Carrie Rentschlerand Claudia Mitchell, eds. Berghahn Press, 2016, pp. 175-194.

"WilliamNotman’s Home Library: Discovering Underlying Meaning in the PortraitPhotograph." In À la recherche du savoir : nouveauxéchanges sur les collections du Musée McCord / Collecting Knowledge: NewDialogues on McCord Museum Collections. Joanne Burgess, Cynthia Cooper, Céline Widmer and NatashaZwarich, eds. Montreal: Editions MultiMondes, 2016, pp. 85-109.

Editor. Jerusalem Art History Journal: AnUndergraduate eJournal /Histoire de l’art à Jérusalem : cyberrevue étudiante depremier cycle. http://jerusalemjournal.concordia.ca/

2014, vol.1

http://www.concordia.ca/content/dam/finearts/art-history/docs/Jerusalem_Art_History_Journal_An_Undergraduate_eJournal.pdf

2015, vol.2

http://jerusalemjournal.concordia.ca/volumes/Jerusalem_Art_History_Journal_An_Undergraduate_eJournal-vol2.pdf5

2016, vol. 3

http://jerusalemjournal.concordia.ca/volumes/Jerusalem_Art_History_Journal_An_Undergraduate_eJournal-vol3.pdf

2017, vol. 4

http://jerusalemjournal.concordia.ca/volumes/Jerusalem_Art_History_Journal_An_Undergraduate_eJournal-vol4.pdf

Editor. Global Engagements in Contemporary CanadianArt: Thirty-Nine Exhibition Essays and Fifty-Five Artists/ Art contemporaincanadien et mobilisation universelle : trente-neuf textes d'exposition; cinquante-cinq artistes.CCCA Academy, 2014.
http://ccca.concordia.ca/academy/2014/english/global%20engagements.pdf

Editor. Envisioning Virtual Exhibitions. CCCA Academy, 2013. http://ccca.concordia.ca/academy/envisioning.html

Editor. Canadian Portraits. 2012.http://canadianportraits.concordia.ca/

and SuzanneRackover. "Jews in Canadian Art." Canada's Jews: In Time, Spaceand Spirit, ed. Ira Robinson. Academic Studies Press, 2013, pp. 422-450.

GuestEditor. Contemporary Art and Religion. Religion and the Arts 17 (2013).

"Introduction:Special Section on Contemporary Art and Religion," Religion and the Arts 17 (2013),1-19.

"WilliamNotman's Photographic Selections(1863)." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'artcanadien 33 no.1 (2012), 16-45.

GuestEditorial. Contemporary Art and Religion. Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoirede l'art canadien 33 no. 2 (2012), 10-20.

"Rejectionand Renewal: Art and Religion in Canada (1926-2010)." Journal ofCanadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien 33 no.2 (2012),21-52.

"WassilyKandinsky's Concerning the Spiritualin Art and the Video Works of Sylvia Safdie, Marisa Portolese, MarielleNitoslawska and Sarindar Dhaliwal." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annalesd'histoire de l'art canadien33 no.2 (2012), 101-128.

Editor, Ensemble: Art and Jazz. FOFA Gallery,2011.https://web.archive.org/web/20120313235806/http://www.ensemble.concordia.ca/pages.php?id=8

"PicturingHer: Seeing Again and Again."Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures3 no. 2 (Winter 2011), 100-117.

"KathleenDaly's Images of Inuit People: Professional Art and the Practice ofEthnography." Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Women and Art inCanada, 1850-1970. Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson, eds. Montreal andKingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012, pp. 225-258.

Editor. Picturing Children and Youth: A CanadianPerspective. 2010. http://picturingchildren.concordia.ca/2010/

"Dr.Norman Bethune: Biographical Objects and Exhibitions." Material CultureReview/Revue de la culture matérielle no. 72 (Fall 2010), 51-61.

ContributingEditor. Canada's Got Treasures.2010. A project developed for the Experimental Lab in the Virtual Museum ofCanada, with national heritage institutions, Young Cuts and Concordia MA Art History students in a MuseumPractice seminar.

"Photographsof the Child in Canadian Pictorialfrom 1906 to 1916: A Reflection of the Ideas and Values of English Canadiansabout Themselves and 'Other' Canadians."Journal of the History of Childhoodand Youth 3.2 (2010), 233-263.

"TheUnmasking of Norman Bethune." Journalof Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien (Winter 2010), 99-113.

Editor. DepictingCanada's Children. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.

"WilliamNotman's Portrait Photographs of the Wealthy English-speaking Girls ofMontreal: Representations of Informal Female Education in Relation to JohnRuskin's 'Of Queens' Gardens' and Writings by and for Canadians from the 1850sto 1890s." Historical Studies in Education 21 no.2 (Fall 2009),65-87.

"GeorgeReid's Paintings as Narratives of a Child Nation." Depicting Canada'sChildren. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009, 325-346.

"Introduction." Blessings,Art and Essays on JewishBlessings Gathered for Two Exhibitions and a Symposium at Montreal'sTemple Emanu-El Beth Sholom, May 10-14, 2007. Montreal: Centre forCanadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2009, 6-9.

"WilliamNotman's Portrait Photographs of Girls Reading from the 1860s to 1880s: APictorial Analysis based on Contemporary Writings." Papers of theBibliographical Society of Canada/Cahiers de la Société bibliographique duCanada 47 no.1 (2009), 45-73.

"SamBorenstein and Marius Barbeau: Ethnography, Modern Art and the Meeting of TwoWorlds." In Around and About Marius Barbeau: ModellingTwentieth-Century Culture. LyndaJessup, Andrew Nurse and Gordon E. Smith, eds. Mercury Series, Culture StudiesPaper 83.Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2008, pp. 119-136.

"Whenthe Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circleof Artists." Healing the World's Children: InterdisciplinaryPerspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century. Cynthia Comacchio,Janet Golden, and George Weisz, eds., McGill Queen's University Press, 2008,pp. 253-281.

"AdolescentGirls, Adult Women: Coming of Age Images by Five Canadian Women Artists." GirlhoodStudies 1no. 2 (Winter2008), 1-28.

"CanadaReceiving the Homage of Her Children: George Reid's Ave Canada and GustavHahn's Hail Dominion: A Proposal of Murals for the Entrance Hall of Canada'sParliament Buildings." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annalesd'histoire de l'art canadien 29 (2008), 50-89.

"Innocence."Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline ReidWalsh, eds. Westport: Greenwood, 2008, vol. 2, pp. 365-368.

Review of Imagining Childhood. NewHaven: Yale University Press, 2006. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities &Social Sciences,1-4.

"FromVictorian Girl Reader to Modern Woman Artist: Reading and Seeing in thePaintings of the Canadian Girl by William Brymner, Emily Coonan, and PrudenceHeward." Canadian Children's Literature/ Littérature canadienne pour lajeunesse 33 no. 2 (Autumn 2007), 19-50.

"PerformingKatja." Katja MacLeod Kessin, Memorial Exhibition, February 7, 1959-April 1, 2006.Montreal: FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, 2007, pp. 29-38.

Editor. Metro Borduas: The Underground Landscape ofAbstract Art in Montréal.2006. http://www.metroborduas.concordia.ca/

SamBorenstein.Montreal Museum of Fine Arts/Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 2005.

"TheAron Museum at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal." MaterialCulture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle 64 (Fall 2004), 8-19.

"SamBorenstein, Artist and Dealer: The Polemics of Post-Holocaust Jewish CulturalIdentity." Canadian Jewish Studies/Etudes juives canadiennes 12(2004), 31-44.

Editor. Visual & Textual Documents on Art andArchitecture in Canada, 2004. http://art-history.concordia.ca/canada_documents/about.html

Editor. Afterimage: Evocations of theHolocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature / Rémanences: Evocationsde l'Holocauste dans les arts et littérature canadiens contemporains.Montreal: Centre for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2002.

Memoriesand Testimonies/Mémoires et Témoignages. Montreal: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery,Concordia University/Galerie d'art Leonard et Bina Ellen, Université Concordia,2002.

ContributingEditor. Public Art as SocialIntervention, 1999.
http://hybrid.concordia.ca/dart_projects/publicart/

Editor. Canadian Artists of Eastern European Origin.1999.
http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/index.htm

"LookingBack, Looking Forward: Canadian Women Artists and Postmodern Rememberings of Eastern Europe." Canadian Ethnic Studies 12 no. 3 (1999): 44-71.

"LilianaBerezowsky: Mythical Echoes in a Journey of Phantasma." Etc Montréal47 (1999): 38-41.

Editor. Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliographyand Guide to the Literature/Film et vidéo canadiens: bibliographie et guide de ladocumentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.(website available through Concordia Library, on-line database).

Co-editorand Mary Williamson. Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography andGuide to the Literature/Art et architecture au Canada: une bibliographie etguide de la documentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.(website available through Concordia Library, on-line data base).

"The Ethica lDevelopment of Boys in Rousseau’s Emile and Jean-Baptiste Greuze’s Artworks." Lumen 32 (accepted for publication, 2021).

"Authority and Agency. " In Adriana Benzaquén, ed. A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment (accepted for publication, Bloomsbury Press, 2021).

"The Infant, the Mother, and the Breast in the Paintings of Marguerite Gérard." In Domines Veliki M., Duffy C., eds. Romanticism and the Cultures of Infancy,Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50429-8_4

"George Agnew Reid's Paintings in Relation to English Canadian Collective Memories of Rural Childhood in Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Canada." Our Rural Selves: Memory and the Visual in Canadian Childhoods, Claudia Mitchell and April Mandrona, eds.Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019, pp. 20-40.

"The Canadian Jewish Connection to the Visual Narrative of Nationhood at the Jewish Palestine Pavilion in New York (1939) and the Israel Pavilion and Pavilion of Judaism in Montreal (1967), Canadian Jewish Studies 26 (Fall 2018): 135-153.

Guest editor for a special issue on Children in Museum Settings for the Journal of the History of Children and Youth (Fall2018). "Guest Editor's Introduction: Children in Museum Settings." Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth, 11 no. 3 (2018):289-297.

"The Manipulation of Indigenous Imagery to Represent Canadian Childhood and Nationhood in 19th Century Canada." Nineteenth Century Childhoods in Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives,Jane Eva Baxter and Meredith Ellis, eds. OxBow Books, 2018, pp. 15-33.

Author of the catalogue essay. Canadian Art: A Child's World, Annual Loan Exhibition, October 28 -November 11,2017. Montreal: Galerie Eric Klinkhoff. http://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/3396d0_5cd14e6ad33c4c6ca8f905a426fda7c0.pdf

Editor, Rethinking Visual Narration, CCCA Academy,2016.https://visualnarration.wordpress.com/

Editor, Family Works, A Website Produced in Partnership with Concordia University and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2016. http://familyworks.hybrid.concordia.ca/

"'What This Picture of a Girl Means to Me': The Place of Girlhood Images in the Art History University Classroom." In Girlhood and the Politics of Place. Carrie Rentschler and Claudia Mitchell, eds. Berghahn Press, 2016, pp. 175-194.

"William Notman’s Home Library: Discovering Underlying Meaning in the Portrait Photograph." In À la recherche du savoir : nouveaux échanges sur les collections du Musée McCord / Collecting Knowledge: New Dialogues on McCord Museum Collections. Joanne Burgess, Cynthia Cooper, Céline Widmer and Natasha Zwarich, eds. Montreal: Editions MultiMondes, 2016, pp. 85-109.

Editor. Jerusalem Art History Journal: An Undergraduate eJournal /Histoire de l’art à Jérusalem : cyberrevue étudiante de premier cycle. http://jerusalemjournal.concordia.ca/

2014, vol.1

http://www.concordia.ca/content/dam/finearts/art-history/docs/Jerusalem_Art_History_Journal_An_Undergraduate_eJournal.pdf

2015, vol.2

http://jerusalemjournal.concordia.ca/volumes/Jerusalem_Art_History_Journal_An_Undergraduate_eJournal-vol2.pdf5

2016, vol. 3

http://jerusalemjournal.concordia.ca/volumes/Jerusalem_Art_History_Journal_An_Undergraduate_eJournal-vol3.pdf

2017, vol. 4

http://jerusalemjournal.concordia.ca/volumes/Jerusalem_Art_History_Journal_An_Undergraduate_eJournal-vol4.pdf

Editor. Global Engagements in Contemporary Canadian Art: Thirty-Nine Exhibition Essays and Fifty-Five Artists/ Art contemporain canadien et mobilisation universelle : trente-neuf textes d'exposition; cinquante-cinq artistes.CCCA Academy, 2014.
http://ccca.concordia.ca/academy/2014/english/global%20engagements.pdf

Editor. Envisioning Virtual Exhibitions. CCCA Academy, 2013. http://ccca.concordia.ca/academy/envisioning.html

Editor. Canadian Portraits. 2012.http://canadianportraits.concordia.ca/

and Suzanne Rackover. "Jews in Canadian Art." Canada's Jews: In Time, Spaceand Spirit, ed. Ira Robinson. Academic Studies Press, 2013, pp. 422-450.

Guest Editor. Contemporary Art and Religion. Religion and the Arts 17 (2013).

"Introduction:Special Section on Contemporary Art and Religion," Religion and the Arts 17 (2013),1-19.

"William Notman's Photographic Selections(1863)." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien 33 no.1 (2012), 16-45.

Guest Editorial. Contemporary Art and Religion. Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoirede l'art canadien 33 no. 2 (2012), 10-20.

"Rejection and Renewal: Art and Religion in Canada (1926-2010)." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien 33 no.2 (2012),21-52.

"Wassily Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art and the Video Works of Sylvia Safdie, Marisa Portolese, Marielle Nitoslawska and Sarindar Dhaliwal." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien33 no.2 (2012), 101-128.

Editor, Ensemble: Art and Jazz. FOFA Gallery,2011.https://web.archive.org/web/20120313235806/http://www.ensemble.concordia.ca/pages.php?id=8

"Picturing Her: Seeing Again and Again."Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 3 no. 2 (Winter 2011), 100-117.

"Kathleen Daly's Images of Inuit People: Professional Art and the Practice of Ethnography." Rethinking Professionalism: Essays on Women and Art in Canada, 1850-1970. Kristina Huneault and Janice Anderson, eds. Montreal an dKingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012, pp. 225-258.

Editor. Picturing Children and Youth: A Canadian Perspective. 2010. http://picturingchildren.concordia.ca/2010/

"Dr.Norman Bethune: Biographical Objects and Exhibitions." Material CultureReview / Revue de la culture matérielle no. 72 (Fall 2010), 51-61.

Contributing Editor. Canada's Got Treasures.2010. A project developed for the Experimental Lab in the Virtual Museum of Canada, with national heritage institutions, Young Cuts and Concordia MA Art History students in a Museum Practice seminar.

"Photographs of the Child in Canadian Pictorial from 1906 to 1916: A Reflection of the Ideas and Values of English Canadians about Themselves and 'Other' Canadians."Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 3.2 (2010), 233-263.

"The Unmasking of Norman Bethune." Journal of Canadian Art History/Annales d'histoire de l'art canadien (Winter 2010), 99-113.

Editor. Depicting Canada's Children. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009.

"William Notman's Portrait Photographs of the Wealthy English-speaking Girls of Montreal: Representations of Informal Female Education in Relation to John Ruskin's 'Of Queens' Gardens' and Writings by and for Canadians from the 1850sto 1890s." Historical Studies in Education 21 no.2 (Fall 2009),65-87.

"George Reid's Paintings as Narratives of a Child Nation." Depicting Canada's Children. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009, 325-346.

"Introduction." Blessings,Art and Essays on Jewish Blessings Gathered for Two Exhibitions and a Symposium at Montreal's Temple Emanu-El Beth Sholom, May 10-14, 2007. Montreal: Centre for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2009, 6-9.

"William Notman's Portrait Photographs of Girls Reading from the 1860s to 1880s: A Pictorial Analysis based on Contemporary Writings." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada/Cahiers de la Société bibliographique du Canada 47 no.1 (2009), 45-73.

"Sam Borenstein and Marius Barbeau: Ethnography, Modern Art and the Meeting of Two Worlds." In Around and About Marius Barbeau: Modelling Twentieth-Century Culture. Lynda Jessup, Andrew Nurse and Gordon E. Smith, eds. Mercury Series, Culture Studies Paper 83.Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Civilization, 2008, pp. 119-136.

"When the Children Are Sick, So Is Society: Dr Norman Bethune and the Montreal Circle of Artists." Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century. Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz, eds., McGill Queen's University Press, 2008,pp. 253-281.

"Adolescent Girls, Adult Women: Coming of Age Images by Five Canadian Women Artists." Girlhood Studies 1no. 2 (Winter2008), 1-28.

"Canada Receiving the Homage of Her Children: George Reid's Ave Canada and Gustav Hahn's Hail Dominion: A Proposal of Murals for the Entrance Hall of Canada's Parliament Buildings." Journal of Canadian Art History/ Annalesd'histoire de l'art canadien 29 (2008), 50-89.

"Innocence."Girl Culture: An Encyclopedia. Claudia Mitchell and Jacqueline Reid Walsh, eds. Westport: Greenwood, 2008, vol. 2, pp. 365-368.

Review of Imagining Childhood. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006. H-Net Reviews in the Humanities &Social Sciences,1-4.

"From Victorian Girl Reader to Modern Woman Artist: Reading and Seeing in the Paintings of the Canadian Girl by William Brymner, Emily Coonan, and Prudence Heward." Canadian Children's Literature/ Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse 33 no. 2 (Autumn 2007), 19-50.

"Performing Katja." Katja MacLeod Kessin, Memorial Exhibition, February 7, 1959-April 1, 2006.Montreal: FOFA Gallery, Concordia University, 2007, pp. 29-38.

Editor. Metro Borduas: The Underground Landscape of Abstract Art in Montréal.2006. http://www.metroborduas.concordia.ca/

Sam Borenstein.Montreal Museum of Fine Arts/Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, 2005.

"The Aron Museum at Temple Emanu-El-Beth Sholom in Montreal." Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle 64 (Fall 2004), 8-19.

"Sam Borenstein, Artist and Dealer: The Polemics of Post-Holocaust Jewish Cultural Identity." Canadian Jewish Studies/Etudes juives canadiennes 12(2004), 31-44.

Editor. Visual & Textual Documents on Art and Architecture in Canada, 2004. http://art-history.concordia.ca/canada_documents/about.html

Editor. Afterimage: Evocations of the Holocaust in Contemporary Canadian Arts and Literature / Rémanences: Evocations de l'Holocauste dans les arts et littérature canadiens contemporains.Montreal: Centre for Canadian Jewish Studies, Concordia University, 2002.

Memories and Testimonies/Mémoires et Témoignages. Montreal: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery,Concordia University/Galerie d'art Leonard et Bina Ellen, Université Concordia,2002.

Contributing Editor. Public Art as Social Intervention, 1999.
http://hybrid.concordia.ca/dart_projects/publicart/

Editor. Canadian Artists of Eastern European Origin.1999.
http://art-history.concordia.ca/eea/index.htm

"Looking Back, Looking Forward: Canadian Women Artists and Postmodern Rememberings of Eastern Europe." Canadian Ethnic Studies 12 no. 3 (1999): 44-71.

"Liliana Berezowsky: Mythical Echoes in a Journey of Phantasma." Etc. Montréal 47 (1999): 38-41.

Editor. Canadian Film and Video: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature/Film et vidéo canadiens: bibliographie et guide de la documentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.(website available through Concordia Library, on-line database).

Co-editor and Mary Williamson. Art and Architecture in Canada: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature/Art et architecture au Canada: une bibliographie et guide de la documentation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.(website available through Concordia Library, on-line data base).

"The EthicalDevelopment of Boys in Rousseau’s Emileand Jean-Baptiste Greuze’sArtworks." Lumen 32 (acceptedfor publication, 2021).

"Authority andAgency. " In Adriana Benzaquén, ed. A Cultural History of Youth in the Age of Enlightenment (accepted forpublication, Bloomsbury Press, 2021).