Dr. Karen A. Bearor
Associate Professor,
Modern American Art and Theory
PhD University of Texas at Austin
416 Fine Arts Building
(850) 644-5069
kbearor at fsu.edu
Karen Bearor's research areas include Twentieth-century U.S. visual culture, cultural theory, film and photo history, and feminist theory. Dr. Bearor has served on the College Art Association Committee for Women in the Arts, the International Fellowships Panel of the American Association of University Women, and the Association of Historians of American Art. She has received the Council on Research and Creativity Summer Research Award and the Awarded Teaching Incentive Program award for excellence in teaching at Florida State University. She also participated in an NEH Summer Institute, "The Thirties: American Literature, Art, and Culture in Interdisciplinary Perspective" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has also been an avid member of the Tallahassee Rowing Club since 1996.
Karen Bearor is the moderator for the international listserv American Art History Discussion List (Amart-l).
Now housed at FSU, the listserv can publicly accessed at: https://lists.fsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/amart-l.
Selected Publications
Irene Rice Pereira: Her Paintings and Philosophy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993
"Subjectivity and Biographical Writing: The 'Artist Named Pereira,'" in Singular Women: Feminisms and the Monograph . Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb, eds. University of California Press.
"The Design Laboratory: New Deal Experiment in Vanguardism," Southeastern College Art Conference Review (Fall, 1996): 14-31.
Irene Rice Pereira's Early Work: Embarking on an Eastward Journey. Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida, 1994.
Chroma. Florida State University Gallery and Museum, 1994.