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Stephen F. Eisenman

Office: Crowe 3-111
s-eisenman@northwestern.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Stephen F. Eisenman (Ph.D. 1984, Princeton; Professor) has dedicated his career to the proposition that the best scholarship requires a critical engagement with the present as well as the past. He thus researches, writes and reads across many disciplines, and is active in contemporary social and political movements.

He is the author of seven major books and exhibition catalogues, including The Temptation of Saint Redon (1992), Gauguin's Skirt (1997), and The Abu Ghraib Effect (2007). He is also the editor and principle author of the most widely used textbook in its field, Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History (1994/third edition 2007). Professor Eisenman has curated many exhibitions in the United States and Europe, and his next one, Impressionism -- The Ecological Landscapes will be held at the Complesso Vittoriano in Rome and open in March 2010.

Throughout 2008-2009, Stephen Eisenman has been working with a group of Chicago artists, lawyers, and activists to end torture in a notorious Illinois prison. His article on the subject, "The Resistible Rise and Predictable Fall of the American Supermax," will be published in Monthly Review in 2010. In 2009-2010, Eisenman with serve as Chair of the General Faculty Committee, the leading governance organ of the faculty of Northwestern University.