Grace Walsh, M.A.
Vita
- In progress | PhD, History of Art, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
Dissertation: “Staging Storytelling Images: Transmediality, Performance, and the Arts of German Romance in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries” [working title]. Primary advisor: Mitchell Merback - 2020 | MA, History of Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY
- 2010 | BA, Art History, French, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Grants and Fellowships
- 2024-2026 | Samuel H. Kress Pre-doctoral History of Art Institutional Fellowship, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany
- 2023-2024 | Robert and Nancy Hall Graduate Curatorial Fellowship, Department of Rare Books and Manuscripts, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD
- 2023 | Early Dissertation Funding Grant, Johns Hopkins University
Roth Summer Travel and Research Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University - 2022 | Roth Summer Travel and Research Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University
- 2021 | Cooke Summer Travel Grant, Johns Hopkins University
- 2019 | Shelby White and Leon Levy Travel Grant, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Academic Research and Teaching
John Hopkins University
- 2024, Spring | Research assistant to Professor Rebecca Brown
- 2024, Winter (intersession) | Co-instructor and program leader, Renaissance Art History in Florence
- 2023, Fall | Research assistant to Professor Nino Zchomelidse
- 2022, Fall | Graduate teaching assistant, Knowledge, Holiness, and Pleasure: The Illustrated Book in the Medieval World (Professor Nino Zchomelidse)
- 2022, Spring | Graduate teaching assistant, Mayan Writing Systems (Doctor Franco Rossi)
- 2021, Fall | Graduate teaching assistant, Introduction to Art History Part I (Professors Marion Feldman and Nino Zchomelidse
New York University
- 2019, Fall | Graduate grading assistant, History of Architecture (Professor John Ritter)
Graduate course assistant, French Renaissance in New York Collections (Professor Colin Eisler)
Non-University Research and Teaching
- 2018-2020 | Archival assistant to the collections manager, Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Foundation, New York, NY
- 2014-2016 | Fine art and market research assistant, MIR Appraisal Services, Inc., Chicago, IL
- 2011-2012 | English Language Teaching Assistant for maternelle and elementary levels, Ministère d'Éducation de France, Centre International d’Études Pédagogiques (CIEP), Académie de Caen, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France
Research Publications
- “Saint Thomas, Evangelist of the Indies,” Amerasia: A Renaissance Discovery, ed. Alexander Nagel and Elizabeth Horodowitch, 2019. (Online digital humanities project, http://ifaresearch.org/amerasia/#walsh-thomas)
- “Antiquity Beyond the Horizon: Thomas More's Utopia and the New World,” Amerasia: A Renaissance Discovery, ed. Alexander Nagel and Elizabeth Horodowitch, 2019. (Online digital humanities project, http://ifaresearch.org/amerasia/#walsh-utopia)
Conferences and Symposia
- 2024 | “Actio or Illustration? The Rodenegg Iwein Cycle and the Staging of Oral Storytelling”, Panel- Cross Cultural Interaction in the Alps: Medieval Artistic Production in the Historic County of Tyrol, 59th Annual International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI
- 2019 | Student event staff, Frick – IFA Symposium, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, NY
Additional Departmental Service
John Hopkins University History of Art Department
- 2022-2023 | Student-faculty liason, and co-coordinator of 2023 History of Art Graduate Student Symposium
- 2021-2022 | Student-faculty liason, and co-coordinator of 2022 History of Art Graduate Student Symposium
Image cataloguing assistant, Visual Resources Center - 2020-2021 | Departmental representative to the Graduate Representative Organization (student government)
New York University Institute of Fine Arts
- 2018-2020 | Graduate assistant for events and special projects, Office of Digital Media and Computer Services, Institute of Fine Arts
Languages
- English – Native proficiency
- French – Advanced reading and speaking proficiency
- German – Intermediate reading proficiency, beginning speaking proficiency; A2 level certified
- Italian – Basic reading proficiency