Michael Orwicz
Associate Professor of Art History
PhD, UCLA
michael.orwicz@uconn.edu

Michael R. Orwicz is Associate Professor of 19th Century Art History at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Orwicz received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the University of California, Los Angeles (dissertation: The Representation of the Breton: Art Criticism, Politics and Ideology in Paris, 1885-1889). Dr. Orwicz edited Art Criticism and its Institutions in 19th Century France, (Manchester University Press, 1994), and is author of Gauguin's Brittany: Representations of Regionalism, Nationalism and Modernism (Yale University Press, forthcoming, 2007). His third book project is titled The Character of Class: Marxism, Art History and the New Left (1960-2005).

Dr. Orwicz has been a member of  L'Association Histoire et Critique des Arts in Paris, and has served on the editorial board of its journal Histoire et Critique des Arts. During the 1980s, he was also a member of the research group Etudes sur le Statut Sociale de l'Artiste (University of Paris), a member of the interdisciplinary research team L'Art et l'Ecriture (University of Paris), and Associate Researcher at the Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS).  He served on the editorial board of the journal Cahiers des Arts et des Artistes (University of Paris), and has lectured at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, at the University of Paris and at London University.

Dr. Orwicz has been awarded numerous grants, including the Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Yale University, a Humanities Institute Fellowship at the University of Connecticut, and a Chancellor's Research Fellowship. He was appointed Visiting Professor of Art History at University College, London University, and has taught at Southern Methodist University in Paris.  For the past twelve years, Dr. Orwicz was on the editorial board of the Oxford Art Journal. He has published on capitalist imperialism and the notion of spectacle; discourse theory in art criticism; theories of nationalism and representation; modernism and spatial geographies; death and sexuality in 19th century sculpture; tourism and the pleasure periphery; and the social history of art. His research specialties are Marxist theory and historiography; theories of nationalism and regionalism; 19c art in France and the United States.