Naomi Hume, PhD

Naomi Hume teaches courses on modern and avant-garde art in Europe and specializes in the history of modern art in Central and Eastern Europe, particularly that of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Her research and teaching interests include the representation of gender, nationality and politics in visual art and popular media and in particular, how artists adapt visual vocabularies to respond to new political, social and cultural contexts. Her current research focuses on the performance of gender in 19^th-century art and contemporary media.

Fields of Interest:

• Modern Art History
• Gender and Representation

Hume has received several awards to support her research, including Seattle University’s College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Research Fellowship, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Research Fellowship and Summer Faculty Fellowship as well as the University of Chicago’s Franke Institute fellowship and a fellowship from the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.

Hume has presented her work at international conferences in Europe and the US. She has presented at the College Art Association conference, the Popular Culture Association conference and the Conference of the European Association for Modernism Studies.

Sample recent presentations include:

• "Mapping Migration: Emil Filla, Otakar Nejedly and the Expressive Geographical Map" Avant-garde Migrations International Symposium, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.
• “Anarchism and Lebensreform in František Kupka’s Abstraction,” European Association of Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies conference, Helsinki.
• “Expanding the Ideenreihe: Bridging Expressionism and Cubism through El Greco,” Los Angeles: Locating Expressionism symposium, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
• “Cut-and-Paste in Exile: Otto Gutfreund’s Parisian Collages,” Prague: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Avant-Garde and Modernism: The Impact of WWI symposium, Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
• “Decadent Art as Politics in Fin-de-Siècle Central Europe,“ invited lecture, University of Washington German Department’s Connections and Contexts lecture series in conjunction with the Frye Museum’s exhibition Franz von Stuck.
• “František Kupka’s Anarchist Colors,“ 100 Years of Abstract Art: Theory and Practice conference, Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany.
• “Beyond Time: Central European Expressionists Interpret El Greco” invited lecture, German Expressionism Symposium, University of Oregon.