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Biography
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Paula J. Birnbaum
Assistant Professor: Visual Arts
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Paula Birnbaum is Assistant Professor of Art History and Arts Management in the Art + Architecture Department at the University of San Francisco. She holds a doctorate in Art History from Bryn Mawr College and has received extended research fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University.
She teaches a variety of classes including Modern and Contemporary Art, Women and Art, and Museum Studies, and runs the Arts Management Internship Program, which prepares students for professional careers in museums, art galleries, and non-profit art organizations. Birnbaum's research focuses on how gender, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation have affected women artists’ self-representation.
Her essays appear in Diaspora and Modern Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews (Routledge), The Modern Woman Revisited (Rutgers), The Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, and The Woman’s Art Journal, among other journals. She is presently completing a book entitled Framing Femininities that explores a group of international women artists who exhibited their work together in Paris between the two World Wars.
Contact Information:
University of San Francisco
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
Phone: (415) 422-5167
Fax: (415) 422-5689
Email: pjbirnbaum@usfca.edu
Office: Fromm Hall, XARTS 011
Office Hours: By appointment.
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