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Biography
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Paula J. Birnbaum
Assistant Professor, Art + Architecture
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Paula Birnbaum is Director of the Art History and Arts Management program and Assistant Professor in the Department of Art + Architecture at the University of San Francisco. Her research focuses on how gender, ethnicity, social class, and sexual orientation have affected women artists’ self-representation, with Jewish identity in the arts a particular area of interest. She has just completed two books: Framing Femininities: Women Artists in Interwar France, and a co-edited anthology with Anna Novakov, Working Girls: Women’s Cultural Production During the Interwar Years (Edwin Mellen Press). Paula’s recent essay on the digitally inspired embroidered samplers of contemporary artist Elaine Reichek appeared in the Art Journal, Summer 2008. Other essays appear in the anthologies Diaspora and Modern Visual Culture: Representing Africans and Jews (Routledge), The Modern Woman Revisited (Rutgers), and a variety of journals including Aurora: the Journal of the History of Art, Woman’s Art Journal, and The Royal Academy of Art Magazine.
Paula holds a doctorate in Art History from Bryn Mawr College. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and fellow at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. In 2008 she received the University of San Francisco, Faculty Union (USFFA) Distinguished Teaching Award (university wide award) and enjoys teaching a variety of classes including Modern and Contemporary Art, Women and Art, and Museum Studies, as well as curating exhibitions in USF’s Thacher Gallery. Paula also runs the Arts Management Internship Program, which prepares students for professional careers in the art world.
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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