Maureen Shanahan

James Madison University

September–December 2015

Maureen G. Shanahan is a professor of art history at James Madison University. Her monograph, The Colorist Doctor: Fernand Léger, Memory, and the Nation, is now under advanced review at Pennsylvania State University Press. It will reconsider Léger's work as contextualized by the trauma of World War I and subsequent events formative of his ideas about nation, class, and collective identity. She and Ana María Reyes (Boston University) have co-edited Simón Bolívar: An Icon Unhinged, a collection of essays about Bolívar as a national myth and cultural sign; it is forthcoming from University Press of Florida. She has also published articles on Léger, early film, and French modernism in Cinema Journal, Konsthistorisk Tidskrift, the International Journal of Art & Design Education, Michigan Feminist Studies, the Journal of Colonialsm and Colonial History, and various edited collections, encyclopedias, and exhibition catalogs. While at the Clark, she will be researching the psychiatric and photographic works of Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault (1872-1934) as a lens into the visual epistemologies of French colonialism during and after World War I. This research will be published as a scholarly book tentatively entitled Silence, Surveillance, and Psychiatry: Gaëtan Gatian de Clérambault and The French Colonial Subject (1914-34).