Lianne McTavish
Professor
History of Art, Design and Visual Culture
Phone: (780) 492-7875
Office: 3-108 FAB
E-mail: lmctavis@ualberta.ca
Areas of Teaching and Research
Teaching: History of early modern visual culture, history of medicine, history of the body, critical museum theory, cultural studies
Research: Early modern French visual culture with a specialization in images of health, healing, childbirth and anatomical dissection; history of museums with a specialization in critical museum theory
I am currently completing a book manuscript, “Between Museums: Exchanging Objects, Values, and Identities, 1842–1950” and researching a new project called “Recovering Bodies in Early Modern France: Images of Convalescence and Cure, 1600–1800.”
Biography
PhD, University of Rochester, 1996
Lianne McTavish is Professor in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture, where she offers courses in early modern visual culture and critical museum theory. Lianne has received three SSHRCC Standard Research Grants, as well as grants from the Killam Research Fund, Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, and Canada Council for the Arts. Her interdisciplinary research—informed by her graduate degrees in Visual and Cultural Studies—has centred on early modern French medical imagery, including articles in Social History of Medicine (2001), Medical History (2006), and a monograph, Childbirth and the Display of Authority in Early Modern France (2005). Her recent work in this area analyzes representations of cure and convalescence in France, 1600–1800. Lianne has also published on the history and theory of museums in Cultural Studies (1998), Acadiensis (2003), New Museum Theory and Practice: An Introduction (2005), the Canadian Historical Review (2006), and the Journal of Canadian Studies (2008). She is currently completing a book manuscript, Between Museums: Exchanging Objects, Values and Identities, 1842–1950. As an associate curator at the Beaverbrook Art Gallery from 2003–2007, Lianne has curated and written the catalogues for a number of exhibitions of contemporary art.
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