As we begin the semester, we're highlighting Bryn Mawr's newest faculty members. The College supports faculty excellence in both research and teaching.
Assistant Professor of History of Art C.C. McKee
Informed by ecocritical, queer, and black Feminist theories, McKee’s research centers on colonial art and visual culture of the Atlantic World from the eighteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on African diasporic history and aesthetic production in the Caribbean. In their current monographic project, titled Cultivating Visible Order: Representations of Tropical Ecology and Race in the French Atlantic, McKee uses painting to trace the coeval developments in colonial race and environmental sciences during the long nineteenth century.
In 2019, McKee was awarded the Professional Development Fellowship in Art History from the College Art Association. McKee recently published an article in Art Journal on the contemporary Dutch-Caribbean artist Deborah Jack. In addition to their scholarship, McKee has curated exhibitions at the Block Museum of Art (Evanston, IL), Iceberg Projects (Chicago, IL), and the Ghetto Biennale (Port-au-Prince, Haiti).
The curriculum in History of Art immerses students in the study of visual culture. Structured by a set of evolving disciplinary concerns, students learn to interpret the visual through methodologies dedicated to the historical, the material, the critical, and the theoretical. Majors are encouraged to supplement courses taken in the department with History of Art courses offered at Swarthmore and the University of Pennsylvania. Majors are also encouraged to study abroad for a semester.