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Education
Ph.D., Art History and Theory, June 2010
University of Essex, Colchester, England
Dissertation: 'The Tragic Myth of the Two Dalis: Re-evaluating "late Dali"'
Advisor: Professor Dawn Ades, CBE, FBA
M.A. with Distinction in Dissertation, History of Art, October 2001
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
Course Option: 'Intellectual Revolution: Art and Its Contexts in France, 1958-1981
Tutor: Professor Sarah Wilson
B.A. summa cum laude, Art History (hons., Phi Beta Kappa), June 1999
University of Denver, Denver, Colorado
Minors in Psychology and Business Administration
Advisor: Dr. M.E. Warlick
Academic Appointments
Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia
Associate Professor of Art History, 2018-present
Assistant Professor of Art History, 2012-2018
Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee
Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History, 2011-2012
Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Adjunct Lecturer in Modern Art, 2010
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art, 2009-2010
Invited Visiting Teaching Appointments
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
Visiting Adjunct Associate Professor of Management, Freeman College of Management, 2020
Publications
Books and Book-Length Exhibition Catalogues
Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance, 1960–1980 (co-edited with Abigail Susik), Penn State University Press, University Park, 2022. 270 pages. ISBN 978-0271091358
Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting (co-edited with Dot Tuer), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2012. 96 pages. ISBN 978-1894243711
Dalí: The Late Work (co-edited with David A. Brenneman), Yale University Press, New Haven / High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 2010. 176 pages. ISBN 978-0300168280
Dalí, Surrealism and Cinema, Kamera Books, Herts (UK), 2007. 192 pages. ISBN 978-1904048909
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Conference Proceedings
"California Dreamin’: Dalí on the West Coast," in Carmen Garcia-Rasilla (ed.), Salvador Dalí en Norteamérica/Los EE.UU. / Salvador Dalí in America / The U.S., Estudios del Observatorio, Instituto Cervantes at FAS, May 2023 – Harvard University: 65-99
"Visual Techniques," in Kirsten Strom (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Surrealism, Routledge, 2022, 98-108
“Introduction, Special Issue on Salvador Dalí,” The Journal of Surrealism and the Americas 13:1 (2022): 1-8. Guest Editor of special Dalí issue
“Surrealism as Radicalism” (with Abigail Susik), in Elliott H. King and Abigail Susik (eds.), Radical Dreams: Surrealism, Counterculture, Resistance, Penn State University Press 2022, 2–19
“Still Spellbound by Spellbound,” in James McManus (ed.), The Space Between (special issue, ‘Dada and Surrealism: Transatlantic Aliens on American Shores, 1914–1945’) http://scalar.usc.edu/works/the-space-between-literature-and-culture-1914-1945/vol14_2018_contents
“‘The Spectator Makes the Picture’: Optical illusions and Viewer Experience in Dalí’s and Duchamp’s Stereoscopic Works,” En Garde! Journal of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Issue 3, spring/summer 2018
“Dalí y Warhol en Nueva York: ‘El cerebro de Alice Cooper’ como campo de batalla,” in José M. del Pino (ed.), El impacto de la metrópolis: La experiencia americana en Lorca, Dalí y Buñuel, Iberoamericana / Vervuert 2018, 221–242
“Surrealism and Counterculture,” in David Hopkins (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Dada and Surrealism, Wiley-Blackwell 2016, 416–430
“Ten Recipes for Immortality: A Study of Dalínian Science and Paranoiac Fictions,” in Gavin Parkinson (ed.), Surrealism, Science Fiction, and Comics, Liverpool University Press 2015, 213–232
“Dalí, Picasso, Velázquez: Measuring Up,” En Garde! Journal of the Salvador Dalí Museum, Issue 1, fall 2015
“Falling to Heaven: Salvador Dalí, Marcel Pagés, and Levity at ‘the Centre of the Universe’,” in Mary D. Edwards and Elizabeth Bailey (eds.), Gravity in Art: Essays on Weight and Weightlessness in Painting, Sculpture and Photography, McFarland, Jefferson 2012, 253–264
“Denise aux anges,” in Frédérique Joseph-Lowery and Isabelle Roussel-Gillet (eds.), Dalí sur les traces d’Eros, Éditions Notari, Geneva 2010, 324–330
“Little Black Dress, Little Red Book: Dalí, Mao, and Monarchy (with Special Attention to Trajan’s Glorious Testicles),” in Michael R. Taylor (ed.), The Dalí Renaissance: New Perspectives on His Life and Art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, in association with Yale University Press 2008, 90–111
“The Prodigious Story of the Lacemaker and the Rhinoceros,” in Michael R. Taylor (ed.), The Dalí Renaissance: New Perspectives on His Life and Art after 1940, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, in association with Yale University Press 2008, 190–204
“Le temps dalínien fait mouche: Réflexions sur les « montres molles »,” in Astrid Ruffa, Philippe Kaenel, Danielle Chaperon (eds.), Salvador Dalí à la croisée des savoirs, Éditions Desjonquères, Paris 2007, 37–52
“Winged Fantasy with Lead Feet: The Influence of Llullism and Hiparxiologi on Dalí’s Mysticism,” in Hank Hine, William Jeffett and Kelly Reynolds (eds.), Persistence & Memory: New Critical Perspectives on Dalí at the Centennial, Bompiani Arte, Milan 2004, 189–193
Museum Catalogues: Essays
“Dalí and Halsman,” in Salvador Dalí/Philippe Halsman, Kitashiobara, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, 2020, 15–21
“Dalí e il divino,” in Laura Bartolomé, Lucia Moni, and Francesca Villanti (eds.), Io Dalí, Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Gangemi Editore SpA International 2018, 90–119
“Le surréalisme, c’est moi,” in Dalí: Master at Metamorphoses, Mayoral Galeria d'Art, Barcelona, Spain, 2015, 5–6
“Dalí ‘Up Close’: Between Tradition and Revolution,” in Andrew Kear (ed.), Dalí Up Close, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada 2014, 29–38
“Salvador Dalí’s Santiago El Grande, Equestrian Fantasy, and La Turbie: Portrait of Sir James Dunn,” in Terry Graff (ed.), Masterworks of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery, Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Goose Lane Editions, Fredericton, New Brunswick 2013, 192–201. Published also in French as Chefs d’oeuvres de la Galerie d’art Beaverbrook, Beaverbrook Art Gallery and Goose Lane Editions
“Le divin Dalí,” in Jean-Hubert Martin, Montse Aguer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, and Thierry Dufrêne (eds.), Dalí, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, 2012, 266–267
“Dalí After 1940: From Surreal Classicism to Sublime Surrealism,” in Dalí: The Late Work, Yale University Press, New Haven 2010, 10–53
“Dalí, Fashion and Advertising” (226–227) “Nuclear Mysticism” (246–249) “Dalí and Photography – Collaborations with Eric Schaal and Philippe Halsman” (266–268) “Dalí and Warhol” (296–297) “Late Dalí” (298–301), in Ted Gott (ed.), Dalí: Liquid Desire, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 2009
“Crazy Movies That Disappear,” in Matthew Gale (ed.), Dalí and Film, Tate Publishing, London / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, 214–229 Catalogue also published in Spanish as Dalí y el cine, Electa, Madrid, 2008, and in French as Dalí Cinéma, Paris, G3J Éditeur, 2012.
Museum Catalogues: Entries
Cathleen Chaffee, Pam Hatley, Holly E. Hughes and Janne Sirén (eds.), Buffalo AKG Art Museum Collection Handbook, Buffalo, NY: Buffalo AKG Art Museum, September 2023. Catalogue entries on Salvador Dalí’s 'Transparent Simulacrum of the Feigned Image' (91) and Yves Tanguy’s 'Infinite Divisibility' (346).
Ted Gott (ed.), Dalí: Liquid Desire, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2009: Catalogue for the exhibition at the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia), 11 June–4 October 2009.
The Face of War (170–171) Dalí and Harpo Marx (208–209) Skulls, Figures and Sea Horses (210–211) Destino (216–217) Kneeling Figure: Decomposition (252–253) Les Brouettes (254–255) Eucharistic Still Life (258–259) The Angel of Port Lligat (264–265) Fifty Abstract Paintings Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen from Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger (284–285) Body print of Dalí’s arm (292–293) In Search of the Fourth Dimension (308–309) The Path of the Enigma (310–311) The Pearl (312–313) Swallow’s Tail and Cellos (316–317).
Dawn Ades and Michael R. Taylor (eds.), Dalí, Bompiani Arte, Milan: Catalogue for the exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi (Venice, Italy), 12 September 2004–6 January 2005, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 16 February–15 May 2005. Published in English (Rizzoli), French (Flammarion), Italian (Bompiani Arte), German (Schirmer /Mosel Verlag Gm), and Spanish (Electa). Also published as Dawn Ades, Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective, Thames and Hudson, London, 2004.
The Enigma of Hitler and The Sublime Moment (pp. 304–308) Leda Atomica (344) The Christ of St John of the Cross and Study for The Christ of St John of the Cross (354–356) Raphaelesque Head Exploding (358–360) Nuclear Cross (364–366) Head Bombarded with Grains of Wheat (372) Young Virgin Auto-Sodomised by Her Own Chastity (378) Ascension (Pieta) (390—391) The Virgin of Guadalupe (392–393) Goddess Leaning on Her Elbow – Continuum of the Four Buttocks (394–396) The Trinity (Study for The Ecumenical Council) (398–400) Fifty Abstract Paintings Which as Seen from Two Yards Change into Three Lenins Masquerading as Chinese and as Seen from Six Yards Appear as the Head of a Royal Bengal Tiger (400–401) The Railway Station at Perpignan (404–407) The Face (sketch for The Hallucinogenic Toreador) (408–410) Dalí from the Back Painting Gala from the Back Eternalised by Six Virtual Corneas Provisionally Reflected in Six Real Mirrors and Gala’s Christ (414–417) The Swallow’s Tail (418–421). Encyclopedia entries for: “Cheese” (p. 429) “Clédalism” (430) “Escorial” (433–434) “Matila Ghyka” (439) “Werner Karl Heisenberg” (439) “Hologram” (439) “Ernest Meissonier” (444) “Nuclear Mysticism” (447) “Perpignan” (448) “Pompier” (451) “Rhinoceros Horn” (456) “Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez” (461).
Museum Catalogues: Bibliographies, Filmographies, and Chronologies
“Dalí Filmography,” published in Matthew Gale (ed.), Dalí and Film, Tate Publishing, London / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, 230–231. Catalogue also published in Spanish as Dalí y el cine, Electa, Madrid 2008, and in French as Dalí Cinéma, Paris, G3J Éditeur, 2012.
“A Cinematic Chronology of Dalí, 1941–1989,” in Matthew Gale (ed.), Dalí and Film, Tate Publishing, London / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007, 160–163. Catalogue also published in Spanish as Dalí y el cine, Electa, Madrid 2008, and in French as Dalí Cinéma, Paris, G3J Éditeur, 2012.
Compiled the most complete bibliography of Dalí resources to-date, published in Dawn Ades and Michael R. Taylor (eds.), Dalí, Bompiani Arte, Milan, 2004, 568–598.
Web Articles
“Salvador Dalí,” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, ed. Stephen Ross. https://www.rem.routledge.com/
“Preface” to David Blumenthal, Salvador Dalí: Aliyah, The Rebirth of Israel, Marcus Hillel Center, Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia).
“Hallucinogenic Celluloid: Salvador Dalí’s Soft Self-Portrait and Destino’, Network Awesome. 16 December 2011
Tate Gallery on-line catalogue (Jennifer Mundy, ed.). Catalogue entries for Salvador Dalí’s Autumnal Cannibalism, The Forgotten Horizon, The King of Aragon, The Metamorphosis of Narcissus and Mountain Lake.
Popular Press
“Spellbound by Hollywood,” The Times (London), no. 69028, Focus Report, 2 June 2007: 13.
Curatorial Projects
"Salvador Dali/Philippe Halsman," Guest Curator
Kitashiobara, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan Morohashi Museum of Modern Art (Kitashiobara, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan), 1 June–6 September 2020. Catalogue published as Salvador Dalí/Philippe Halsman, Morohashi Museum of Modern Art, 2020.
"Magritte: Reflections of Another World, Paintings from the Van Parys Family," Guest Curator
The Baker Museum/Artis-Naples (Naples, FL), 1 December 2019–July 2020.
"Salvador Dali's Aliyah, The Rebirth of Israel," Organizer with Clover Archer
Lykes Atrium, Wilson Hall, Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA) 9 January–3 February 2017. Exhibition toured to the Malcolm Rosenberg Hillel Center, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Blacksburg, VA), 13–31 March 2017.
"Modern Art Goes POP! Selections from W&L's Art Collection," Co-Curator with Clover Archer
Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA), 7 November–9 December 2016.
“Louis Markoya: Strange Arttractors," Co-Curator with Clover Archer
Staniar Gallery, Washington and Lee University (Lexington, VA) 16 February–20 March 2015.
"Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting," Consulting Curator
High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA). Exhibition toured the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto, Canada), 20 October 2012–20 January 2013 High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), 14 February–12 May 2013. Catalogue published as Dot Tuer and Elliott H. King (eds.), Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting, Art Gallery of Ontario/High Museum of Art, 2012.
"Dali: The Late Work," Guest Curator
High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA), 7 August 2010–9 January 2011. Catalogue published as Elliott H. King and David A. Brenneman, Dalí: The Late Work, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2010.
"Dali & Film" (also, "Dali: Painting and Film"), Exhibition Assistant
Tate Modern Gallery, London, England. Exhibition toured Tate Modern Gallery (London, England), 1 June–9 September 2007 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA), 14 October 2007–6 January 2008 Salvador Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, FL), 1 February–1 June 2008 The Museum of Modern Art (New York, NY), 29 June–15 September 2008. Catalogue published as Matthew Gale (ed.), Dalí and Film, Tate Publishing, London / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007.
"Dali: The Centenary Retrospective," Exhibition Assistant
Palazzo Grassi (Venice, Italy), 12 September 2004–16 January 2005 Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), 16 February–15 May 2005. Catalogue published as Dawn Ades and Michael R. Taylor (eds.), Dalí, Bompiani Arte, Milan, 2004.
“Looking With/Out: East Wing Collection, No. 05,” Curatorial Committee
Courtauld Institute of Art (London, England), 9 November 2001–9 September 2003. Catalogue published as Looking With/Out: East Wing Collection No. 05, University of London in association with Thames & Hudson, London, 2001.
Interim Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Denver Art Museum (Denver, Colorado). Worked chiefly on the research and catalogue for The Berger Collection: 600 Years of British Painting (DAM, 1998).
Lectures and Conference Participation
Keynote Lecture
“Inner‐Dialogues in Late Dalí,” Dalí in Dialogue, National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) – 13 June 2009
Chaired Panels and Other Invited Panel Participation
Roundtable discussant, “Art and Radicalism,” Penn State University Press, 18 March 2022
Roundtable discussant, “Surrealism Beyond Borders,” Nuits blanches: International Society for the Study of Surrealism Worldwide Virtual Conference, 13 November 2021
Roundtable Discussant, “Dalí’s Surrealisms,” Nuits blanches: International Society for the Study of Surrealism Worldwide Virtual Conference, 12 November 2021
Roundtable Discussant, “Salvador Dalí’s Stairway to Heaven,” El Museo Latino (Omaha, NE), 28 April 2021
Panel Co-chair (with Abigail Susik), “The Surrealist Revolution in International Counterculture After World War II,” Modernist Studies Association (Boston, MA), 19–22 November 2015
Panel Co-chair (with Abigail Susik), “Surrealism and Counterculture, 1960–1980,” College Art Association (Chicago, IL), 12–15 February 2014
Discussant, Dalí. Sur les traces d’Eros (7-day specialists’ colloquium), Centre Culturel International de Cerisy-la-Salle (Cerisy-la-Salle, France), 13–20 August 2007
Roundtable Discussant, Dalí Technical Workshop, Tate Modern Gallery (London, England), 13 March 2006
Roundtable Discussant, “Surrealism and Film,” Surrealism Laid Bare, Anew, Fourth International Symposium on Surrealism, West Dean College (West Sussex, England), 13–15 May 2005
Panel Chair, “Nuclear Mysticism,” The Dalí Renaissance: An International Symposium, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), 11 April 2005
Roundtable Discussant, “Emerging Perspectives on Late Dalí,” Persistence & Memory: New Critical Perspectives on Dalí at the Centennial, The Salvador Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, FL), 18–20 March 2004
Conference and Symposium Papers (* indicates invited participation)
“Reaction, Revolution, Renaissance: Reinterpreting Surrealism in Dalí’s Religious Paintings,” Annual Conference of the College Art Association (New York, NY), 13 February 2019
“Dalí’s Persistence of Memory: From the Ultra-local to the Universal,” Surrealism, from France to the World, Princeton University (Princeton, NJ), 27–28 April 2018*
“‘The Spectator Makes the Picture’: Optical Illusions and Viewer Experience in Dalí’s and Duchamp’s Stereoscopic Works,” Dalí/Duchamp: Relationships, Royal Academy of Arts (London, England), 3–4 November 2017*
“Dalí & Warhol in New York: Alice Cooper’s Brain as Battleground,” Lorca, Dalí and Buñuel in NY: The American Exploits of “Residents” in the United States and México, Instituto Cervantes (New York, NY), 23 May 2016*
“‘Too much intellectualism, too much theory’: CoBrA and the Ghost of Surrealist Past,” Modernist Studies Association (Boston, MA), 19–22 November 2015
“Alice Cooper’s Brain as Battleground,” Dalí, Lorca, and Buñuel in America: An International Conference, Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH), 15–17 October 2015*
“Dalí, Picasso, Velázquez: Measuring Up,” Dalí/Picasso Picasso/Dalí International Symposium, The Salvador Dalí Museum (St Petersburg, FL), 5–7 February 2015*
“The Tragic Myth of the Two Dalís: Re-considering ‘late Dalí’,” Southeastern College Art Conference (Greensboro, NC), 30 October–2 November 2013
“Stairway to Heaven: Dalí's Nuclear Mysticism and the history of Catalan science,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Meeting (Kitchener, Ontario, Canada), 22–25 September 2011
“Dalí, Julesz, and new revelations concerning Dalí’s ‘stereoscopic’ canvases,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Meeting (Indianapolis, IN), 29–31 October 2010
“Re-Framing 'Late Dalí' for a New Generation,” Dalí Today, New York University, the Catalan Center, King Juan Carlos I Center (New York, NY) – 23 April 2010*
“Falling to Heaven: Salvador Dalí’s anti-gravity painting,” Annual Conference of the College Art Association (Los Angeles, CA), 25–28 February 2009
“The Many Faces of Dalí’s Soft Watch: New considerations on ‘this harrowing and colossal question of Einsteinian space-time’,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Annual Meeting (Charlotte, NC), 13–16 November 2008
“Little Black Dress, Little Red Book: Dalí, Mao and Monarchy (with Special Attention to Trajan’s Glorious Testicles),” The Dalí Renaissance: An International Symposium, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA), 11 April 2005*
“Time (attracts) flies: Musings on a montre molle,” Salvador Dalí à la croisée des savoirs, Université de Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland), 2–4 December 2004
“(The Endless [Enigma) of Hitler] – Whatever happened to critical paranoia?,” New Perspectives on Surrealism and Its Legacies, Tate Modern Gallery (London, England), 6 May 2004
“Winged Fantasy with Lead Feet: The Influence of Llullism and Hiparxiologi on Dalí’s Nuclear Mysticism,” Persistence & Memory: New Critical Perspectives on Dalí at the Centennial, The Salvador Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, FL), 18–20 March 2004
“Sodomized by Her Own Chastity: Science, Catholicism and Eroticism in Dalí’s RhinocEROS Horn,” Society for Literature and Science Annual Meeting (Austin, TX), 23–25 October 2003
“Po(m)pism: The Dalí Sixties,” Twenty-ninth Annual Conference of the Association of Art Historians, University of London (London, England), 10–13 April 2003
“Dalí Atomicus, or the Prodigious Adventure of the Lacemaker and the Rhinoceros,” Society for Literature and Science Annual Meeting (Pasadena, CA), 10–13 October 2002
Invited Public Lectures
“Dalí’s Paranoiac Vision,” Gallery Associates, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada) – 21 March 2021
“Magritte: Reflections of Another World,” The Baker Museum, Artis-Naples (Naples, FL) – 27 February 2020
“Dalí’s Persistence of Memory: From the Ultra-local to the Universal,” Southern Methodist University (Dallas, TX) – 11 October 2018
“Salvador Dalí: From Surrealism to Pop,” Fort Collins Museum of Art (Fort Collins, CO) – 8 December 2017
“Dalí, Surrealism, and the Fetishization of Food,” Loveland Museum/Gallery (Loveland, CO) –14 October 2016
“Salvador Dalí: From Surrealism to Pop,” Judith & Norman Alix Art Gallery (Sarnia, Ontario, Canada) – 12–13 November 2015
“It’s Just a Jump to the Left and Then a Step to the Right: Salvador Dalí and Chairman Mao,” Willamette University (Salem, Oregon) – 28 September 2015
“Salvador Dalí: From Surrealism to Pop,” Beaverbrook Art Gallery (Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada) – 7 May 2015
“The Great Late Salvador Dalí,” Winnipeg Art Gallery (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) – 15 November 2014
“Salvador Dalí” (Mixed Taste Lecture), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (Denver, CO) – 17 July 2014
“¡Viva la Vida! The Art of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera,” High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA) – 23 February 2013
“Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting,” The Galloway School (Atlanta, GA) – 22 February 2013
“Dalí and Surrealism Between the Wars,” Colorado State University-Pueblo (Pueblo, CO) – 28 June 2012
Curatorial overview of “Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting,” Frida & Diego Teacher Institute, High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA) –12 June 2012
"Celebrating the American Spirit: An American Art History at Crystal Bridges Museum," Rhodes College Alumni Chapter of Arkansas (Bentonville, AR) – 21 April 2012
“Jean-Louis Forain: La Comédie parisienne at the Dixon Gallery & Gardens,” Rhodes College Alumni Chapter of Memphis (Memphis, TN) – 29 September 2011
“Paranoiac Illustration in Dalí’s Aliyah,” Brown RISD Hillel, Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) – 22 September 2011
“Dalí: The Late Work,” PechaKucha vol. 1, Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center (Pueblo, CO) – 16 June 2011
“Hyperdimensionality in Dalí’s Illustrations of Dante’s Paradiso” (with Arielle Saiber), Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, GA) – 21 April 2011
“Paranoiac Illustration in Dalí’s Aliyah,” Marcus Hillel Center, Emory University (Atlanta, GA) –17 March 2011
“Turn-About is Fair Play: Documenting Andy Warhol,” Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver (Denver, CO) – 9 March 2011
“Dalí: A Passion for Film,” High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA) – 21 August 2010
“The Great Late Salvador Dalí,” High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA) – 7 August 2010
Curatorial overview of “Dalí: The Late Work” and “Introduction to Surrealist Games and Activities,” Salvador Dalí Teacher Institute, High Museum of Art (Atlanta, GA) – 8–10 June 2010
“Dalí Illustrates Dante's Divine Comedy,” Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University (Selinsgrove, PA) – 10 April 2010
“Dalí's Paranoiac Illustrations,” Loveland Museum/Gallery (Loveland, CO) – 9 January 2010
“Dalí Illustrates Dante's Divine Comedy,” Loveland Museum/Gallery (Loveland, CO) – 13 November 2009
“Salvador Dalí: The Hallucinogenic Toreador” (“Mixed Taste” Lecture), Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (Denver, CO) – 24 July 2009
“Soft Sculptures,” Duldig Lecture on Sculpture, National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) – 15 June 2009
“Introduction to Dada and Surrealism,” Colorado State University-Pueblo (Pueblo, CO) – 20 April 2009
“An Evening with Salvador Dalí,” Boettcher Scholars’ Alumni Group (Denver, CO) – 12 March 2009
“The Image Disappears: Film, continuity, and the deception of ‘late Dalí,’” The Salvador Dalí Museum (St. Petersburg, FL) – 15 April 2008
“‘Late Dalí’ on Trial: Two thumbs down or a sequel as good as the original?” Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles, CA) – 3 November 2007
“Dalí, Fonzie, and what ‘late Dalí and film’ can tell us about ‘late Dalí’ and everything else,” Tate Modern Gallery (London, England) – 16 June 2007
“Time (attracts) flies: Musings on a montre molle,” School of Art and Art History, University of Denver (Denver, CO) – 14 April 2005
“The most subversive things that can happen to an ex-Surrealist: Dalí after Breton,” Trinity College, Cambridge University (Cambridge, England) – 28 October 2004
“Hyperdimensionality in Dalí’s Illustrations of Dante’s Paradiso” (with Arielle Saiber), Annual Meeting of the Dante Society of America, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) – 27 April 2003
“Carrots and Cretins: Considering Dalí’s Negative Appraisal of (and by) Modern Art,” AHRB Centre for Study of Surrealism and Its Legacies Research Seminar, University of Manchester (Manchester, England) – 26 March 2003
Media Appearances
Commentator, “Dreaming with Scissors: Hitchcock, Surrealism and Salvador Dalí Featurette,” Spellbound DVD Bonus Features, Alfred Hitchcock Premiere Collection, MGM Video & DVD (Produced by Cloverland Studios for Twentieth Century Fox), 2008
Commentator, The Private Life of an Easter Masterpiece: Salvador Dalí’s The Christ of Saint John of the Cross, Mick Gold (Prod.), Fulmar Television for BBC2, 2006
Audio-tour commentator, Dalí: The Centenary Retrospective, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2005
Consultant, Dalí Dimension, Susi Marquès (Dir.), Media 3.14, Barcelona, 2004
Press (Selection)
Dalya Alberge, “Recovered and restored: The surrealist masterpiece thought destroyed after fascist raid,” The Observer (London), 23 January 2022
David Morán, “A la venta una obra maestro de Dalí ‘perdida’ durante más de 50 años,” ABC (Barcelona), 8 April 2021
José Ángel Montañés, “Una obra de Dalí casi desconocida sale a la venta tras 50 ãnos en un salon privado,” El País (Barcelona), 5 April 2021
Josep Playà Maset, “Sale a la venta una obra maestro de Dalí prácticamente desconocida,” La Vanguardia (Barcelona), 2 April 2021
“Surrealistic Sequences: Designs by Anouk Wipprecht,” Venü (spring 2021, online), 19 March 2021
Martin Chilton, “The Madcap Film Career of Salvador Dalí: From Buñuel to Hitchcock to Alka-Seltzer Adverts,” The Independent (London), 23 January 2019
Interview on Showcase, TRT World (Istanbul, Turkey), 26 April 2018
Nazih Osseiran, “Raid Turns Up Long-lost Dalí Painting, Lebanon Says,” The Wall Street Journal (online), 25 October 2017
Maggie Carrigan, “When Salvador Dalí and Alfred Hitchcock Brought Surrealism to Hollywood,” Artsy Magazine (online), 12 July 2017
Constance Grady, “Meet Zardulu, the ‘art villain’ behind the latest viral video,” Vox.com (online), 24 April 2017
Abigail Cain, “Salvador Dalí Made Jewelry That Could Turn You into a Surrealist Artwork,” Artsy Magazine (online), 23 December 2016
“Superbooks: Les Dîners de Gala,” Olivia Humphreys and Ivor Manley (Prod.), Radio Wolfgang, London, England, 3 February 2016
Interview with Christine McLean, “The man behind Fredericton’s most famous painting. A conversation with the leading expert on Salvador Dalí,” Information Morning Fredericton with Terry Seguin (Fredericton, New Brunswick), CBC Radio, Canada, 29 June 2015
Ian T.D. Thomson, “The Late, Great Salvador Dalí,” The Manitoban (Winnipeg), 24 November 2014
Teresa Annas, “An artist made it, but... is it art?!” The Virginian Pilot, 17 May 2014. Cited on artnet news, 19 May 2014.
Deanna Sirlin, The Art Section: An Online Journal of Art and Cultural Commentary, March 2013
Interview with John Lemley, City Café, WABE 90.1FM (13 Feb 2013)
Jayne Clark, “Frida & Diego reunite at Atlanta’s High Museum,” USA Today, 7 February 2013
Collin Kelley, “Passion & Art: Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera at The High,” Atlanta Intown, 1 February 2013
Rosalind Bentley, “Kahlo and Rivera: The intersection of art, pain and politics,” The Atlanta Journal Constitution, 10 February 2013
Julie L. Belcove, “The Bazaar World of Dalí,” Harper’s Bazaar (New York) Dec 2012/Jan 2013, 226—230
Thane Peterson, “The Dalí Sculpture Mess,” ARTNews, 3 December 2012
Megan Willett, “Dalí’s ‘Nightmare Beachwear,’” Business Insider (19 September 2012). Cited in Erin McCarthy, “Weird Swimsuits
Designed by Salvador Dalí,” mental_floss, 3 June 2014
Laura Chapparo, “La obsesión de Dalí por una musa llamada ciencia,” Servicio de información y noticias científicas’, (SINC) (Spanish science agency), Heraldo de Aragón, 31 May: 4–5 2012
Elena Borissova, “The ‘Almost Dalí’ Trade,” The Guardian (London), 2 June 2011
Howard Pousner, “Dalí Fifth Best-Attended Exhibit in High Museum History,” Atlanta Journal Constitution, 19 January 2011
Homa Nasab, “Interview with Elliott H. King on Dalí: The Late Work” (two-part interview), museumviews.wordpress.com, 8 September 2010
Roberta Smith, “Antics Aside, a Dalí of Constant Ambition,” The New York Times (review of Dalí: The Late Work), 2 September 2010
Kelly Crow, “The Lust for Late,” The Wall Street Journal, 13 August 2010
Kate Brumback (Associated Press), “Atlanta’s High Museum Hosts Exclusive Salvador Dalí Exhibit,” USA Today, 8 August 2010
James Adams, “After 50 Years, Iconic Salvador Dalí Painting Leaves Beaverbrook Gallery,” The Globe and Mail (Toronto), 23 June 2010
“For the Love of Gala,” The Age (Melbourne), 13 June 2009
Grants and Awards
Lenfest Summer Research Grant, Washington and Lee University, 2013-2023
Lenfest Subvention Grant, Washington and Lee University, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2014
Lenfest Sabbatical Fellowship, Washington and Lee University (full-year, fully funded sabbatical, 2019–20), 2018
Pre-tenure leave, Washington and Lee University (autumn term), 2015
Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme (ORS) Grant, 2002–04
Departmental Travel Grant, Department of Art History and Theory, University of Essex, 2002
Boettcher Foundation Scholarship, 1995-1999
Mary Ann Scott Award for Outstanding Art History Undergraduate Student, University of Denver, 1998, 1999
Thomas and Alexis Buddig Scholarship Award for Most Promising Student in Art History, University of Denver, 1999
Pioneer Award, University of Denver, 1999
Partners in Scholarship (PINS) Program Merit Award, University of Denver, 1999
Honors Program Individual Project Grant, University of Denver, 1999
University Service
Phi Beta Kappa Executive Committee (2016-present Chapter Secretary/Treasurer, 2018–present)
Student Financial Aid Committee (2021-present)
Faculty Executive Committee (2022-present)
Advisory Committee (2023-present)
Summer Registration Advising Team (2023)
Student Arts League Advisor (2014-2021)
Museums Advisory Committee (formerly University Collections of Art and History Advisory Committee) (2013-2017 2018-2021 Chair, 2020–21)
Graduate Fellowships Committee (2016-20)
Science, Society, and the Arts Planning Committee (2018-19)
Historic Preservation and Archaeological Conservation Advisory Board (2014-16)
Interview panellist, Johnson Scholarship (2015, 2013)
Professional Service
International Society for the Study of Surrealism: Founding Board of Directors (2016-present), Treasurer (2020-present), Vice President (2023-present), Outreach Co-Chair (2016-2020), Organizing Committee for 2019, 2020, and 2023 annual conferences
Reviews Co-Editor (2023-) and member of the Editorial Collective (2020-), International Journal of Surrealism
Article Manuscript Referee for Art Bulletin, Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historians, Art Journal, The Papers of Surrealism, Modernism/Modernity, East European Politics & Societies and Cultures, Journal of Art Historiography
Book Manuscript Referee for Ashgate Publishing and Bloomsbury Publishing
Grant Referee for the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
Other Experience and Activities
“Art, Money and the Law,” Christie’s Education short-course New York, NY (2018)
Associated Colleges of the South Summer Teaching and Learning Workshop Greenville, SC (2015)
Stockley Gardens Art Festival, Judge Norfolk, VA (2014)
Boettcher Scholarship Program, Interview panelist Denver, CO (2008)
Association of Art Historians Student Conference, Organizational liaison, University of Essex Colchester, England (2002)
Goodenough College, Fellow London, England (2000-2004)
L’École Française (seven-week French intensive), Middlebury College Middlebury, VT (2000)
Boettcher Foundation Graduate Fellow Denver, CO (1999-2000)