University of Pittsburgh

Graduate Students

James Jewitt

Europe before 1750

jrj18@pitt.edu

James’s current research focuses on the role of allegorical landscapes in sixteenth-century painting of the Veneto, Lombardy, and Emilia-Romagna, as well as the history and theory of landscape painting.

Education

Ph.D. Student, University of Pittsburgh,
Fall 2007 - present

M.A., University of Pittsburgh, April 2009, Thesis: "The Landscape of Fortune in Sixteenth-Century Italian Portraiture," advisor, Ann Sutherland Harris

B.A., Hartwick College, Art History and English, May 2006, Honors Thesis: 19th-Century American Landscape Painting

Conference Presentations

"Prowling Devils and Christian Souls: The Iconography of the Medieval Mouth of Hell." The 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, MI, May 2009.

Working Papers

"Weaving Together a New Identity in Nicolas Poussin’s Landscape with an Anchorite Saint."

"Eliza Fortuna: The Ditchley Portrait as an Emblem of Sir Henry Lee."

Grants and Awards

Newberry Renaissance Consortium Grant for Research at the Folger Institute, Summer 2009.

College of Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2007-Spring 2008.

Professional Experience

Research Assistant for Kirk Savage, University of Pittsburgh, Spring 2009.

Graduate Assistant, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Fall 2008.

Graduate Assistant, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Fall 2006 - Spring 2007.

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