Associate Professor, History Department
Rochester Institute of Technology
Curriculum Vitae
College of Liberal Arts
One Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5603 LBR, Room 3114
(585) 475-6913
[email protected]
Rochester Institute of Technology
Curriculum Vitae
College of Liberal Arts
One Lomb Memorial Drive Rochester, NY 14623-5603 LBR, Room 3114
(585) 475-6913
[email protected]
Rebecca J. DeRoo is Associate Professor in the Department of Performing Arts & Visual Culture and the Museum Studies Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her research and teaching focus on exhibition studies, contemporary art, photography, and cinema. Her most recent book examines the work of multimedia artist Agnès Varda: Agnès Varda between Film, Photography, and Art (University of California Press, 2018; finalist for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation Best Book Award in the field of Moving Image). Book research was supported by fellowships from the American Association of University Women, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, and the Paul A. and Francena L. Miller Fellowship.
Dr. DeRoo’s first book, The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art (Cambridge: 2006, translated, reprinted 2014), explains how the protests and social movements of 1968 France triggered a radical reconsideration of artistic practice that has shaped both art and museums up to the present. Her book was awarded the 2008 Laurence Wylie Prize for best book in the field of French Cultural Studies. Dr. DeRoo has contributed to publications including The Oxford Art Journal, Parallax, Studies in French Cinema, Afterimage, and Modern and Contemporary France. She curated the exhibition Beyond The Photographic Frame at the Art Institute of Chicago, for which she received a Rhoades Foundation Fellowship; curated Made in France: Art from 1945 to the Present at the Washington University Art Museum; and co-curated with Jurij Meden a retrospective, Agnès Varda: (Self-)Portraits, Facts and Fiction, at the Dryden Theatre, George Eastman Museum (2016). She has been an affiliated member of the UK AHRC grant-supported international research network “Film and the Other Arts.” Her grants include Fulbright and Killam Fellowships and a research residency at the French National Institute for Art History (INHA).
At Rochester Institute of Technology, Dr. DeRoo teaches courses on Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, History and Theory of Exhibitions, Exhibition Design, and Gender Studies. She is affiliated faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Program and serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
Dr. DeRoo’s first book, The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art (Cambridge: 2006, translated, reprinted 2014), explains how the protests and social movements of 1968 France triggered a radical reconsideration of artistic practice that has shaped both art and museums up to the present. Her book was awarded the 2008 Laurence Wylie Prize for best book in the field of French Cultural Studies. Dr. DeRoo has contributed to publications including The Oxford Art Journal, Parallax, Studies in French Cinema, Afterimage, and Modern and Contemporary France. She curated the exhibition Beyond The Photographic Frame at the Art Institute of Chicago, for which she received a Rhoades Foundation Fellowship; curated Made in France: Art from 1945 to the Present at the Washington University Art Museum; and co-curated with Jurij Meden a retrospective, Agnès Varda: (Self-)Portraits, Facts and Fiction, at the Dryden Theatre, George Eastman Museum (2016). She has been an affiliated member of the UK AHRC grant-supported international research network “Film and the Other Arts.” Her grants include Fulbright and Killam Fellowships and a research residency at the French National Institute for Art History (INHA).
At Rochester Institute of Technology, Dr. DeRoo teaches courses on Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, History and Theory of Exhibitions, Exhibition Design, and Gender Studies. She is affiliated faculty in the Digital Humanities and Social Sciences Program and serves on the Coordinating Committee of the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.
