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Rebecca Trittel

Art history professor

Education

  • Ph.D., art history and theory, University of Essex
  • M.F.A., European art, University of Essex
  • B.S., interior design, University of Southern Mississippi

Credentials

  • Professor of art history, 2001–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
    Chair, art history, 2005–07

Awards, recognitions, and honors

  • Awarded travel grant, Dean of Liberal Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2004
  • Awarded Presidential Fellowship, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2003
  • Awarded travel grant, Dean of Liberal Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design, 2002
  • Awarded travel grant, the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs, Colchester, UK, 2001
  • Awarded first-ever Student Bursary, Romney Society, Cumbria, England, 1999

Organizations

  • Southeastern College Art Conferences (SECAC), member since 2006
  • Association of Historians of the Nineteenth Century (AHNCA), member since 2008

Publications and presentations

Publications

  • "Models for Delacroix and Boucher," Dictionary of Artists' Models, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.
  • Constable and Wivenhoe Park: Reality and Vision, University of Essex, 2001.
  • "The Hermit of Eartham: William Hayley and His Friendship with George Romney," Transactions of the Romney Society, Vol. 5, 2000.
  • Printing the Unprintable: The Bicentenary of Goya's Los Caprichos, University of Essex, 1999.

Conference papers

  • "William Hogarth's The Rake's Progress," presented at Ivy Hall, Atlanta, 2015.
  • "Painting Provence: The Landscapes of Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh," presented at The Learning Center, Savannah, Ga., 2015.
  • "The Power of Portraiture: Portraits of Elizabeth I," presented at SECAC, Richmond, Va., 2010.
  • "The Portrait of Lord Byron in Arnaout Costume by Thomas Phillips, R.A.," presented at SECAD, Mobile, Ala., 2009.
  • "Sir Joshua Reynolds and the Concept of Genius 2001 – Essex University: The Trials and Tribulations of Researching an Unknown Regency Artist," presented at SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Ga., 2005.
  • "Deism," session chair at Blake and the Enlightenment Conference, Essex University, 2000.
  • "Gold Braid and Brass Buttons: The Military Uniform's Influence on Men's Civil Fashions of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries," presented at Leicester University, Conflicting Visions: The Culture of War in Europe, 1660–1815, 1999.