…“From Dark to Light: Illuminating the Critically Missing History of Illustration.” York University and Seneca College, Toronto. March 6, 2016….
…The History of Illustration ProjectI am a founder of this grassroots collective (92 members) devoted to furthering Illustration History and illustrators’ education. In 2012 with Whitney Sherman (MICA) I conducted a survey about the need for a book on the history of illustration and its form and content. This led to my editing of The History of Illustration (Bloomsbury, 2017), 648 pp, with Sherman and Susan Doyle (RISD). It will be the first college textbook on the subject, comprising contributions from over 40 experts writing 29 chapters. Although weighted to American and European works, it surveys illustration from prehistory to present around the world and introduces key issues and theories relating to the visual culture and communication of illustration. The Illustration Research Network, International Illustration Research Symposia, and Journal of IllustrationIn 2011 I began collaborating with the Il…
…BooksA Cultural Trade: Continentalism and Canadian Illustration, 1880-1960. In progress; based on dissertation.History of Illustration. Edited by Susan Doyle, Jaleen Grove, and Whitney Sherman (Fairchild Books/Bloomsbury, January 2018). 648 pp.Oscar Cahén: Life and Work (Toronto: Art Canada Institute, September 2015). e-book; print edition 120 pp.Walter Haskell Hinton, Illustrator of the Popular American West (Knoxville: Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, 2010). 88 pp. Book Chapters“Oscar Cahén: The Early Years” and “Oscar Cahén’s Vulgar Modernism,” In Oscar Cahén (Beaverbrook, 2017).“Crossing the Line: Canadian Satire of the Pretty Girl North and South of the 49th Parallel.” In The History of Graphic Satire in Canada, From the Colonial Period to the Onset of the Cold War, edited by Dominic Hardy, Annie Gérin, Lora Senechal Carney (McGill-Queens University Press, forthcoming).“T…
My research area is the history of illustration, with a focus on Canada and the United States, 1840-present. Naturally this expands into visual culture, art history, history of the book, and periodical studies. I am also interested in Early Modern print, and I my background before academia was in fine art and graphic design practice.