Curriculum Vitae

 

ROBERT DENTON MEADOWS-ROGERS, PH.D.

New York, New York

email: rob@epiklesis.com

EDUCATION:

Duke University, B.A., summa cum laude, 1971 (major: religion)

Union Theological Seminary, New York, M.Div., 1974

      (major: psychiatry and religion)

State University of New York, Oneonta, 1984-85, no degree

      (undergraduate and graduate courses in art history)

The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

      1985-86: nonmatriculated graduate student

      May, 1989: M.A. awarded in art history

            M.A. Thesis: The Learned Artist and Virgil:

            Time and Providence in Rubens'

            Landscape with Stone Carriers

      May, 1997: Ph.D. awarded in art history

            Dissertation: "The Terza Loggia in the Vatican Palace and

            the Patronage of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585): Decorative

            Innovation and Urban Ideology before Sixtus V"

 

NON-ACADEMIC WORK HISTORY:

1971-1973: (part time and full time): community mental health worker, Dept.

      of Community Psychiatry, The Roosevelt Hospital, New York, New York

1974-1977 and 1980-1985: Pastor in United Methodist Churches, New York Conference

      (Note: since 1999, a Roman Catholic layman)

1977-1980: Assistant to the Director of Special Events, The Museum of Modern

      Art, New York, New York

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

1986-1991: grading and teaching assistantships in the art and the religious

studies departments, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Summer, 1989:

      Modern Art: University of North Carolina at Greensboro

      High Renaissance to 20th-Century Art: UNC, Chapel Hill

January, 1990 - July, 1992:

      Visiting Instructor, part-time

      North Carolina State University, Raleigh

      Courses: art history surveys, ancient to contemporary

Fall Quarter, 2002, and Fall Quarter, 2003:

Visiting Faculty Member

Liturgical Institute/Mundelein Seminary, Mundelein, Illinois

Course: “Liturgy, Art, and Architecture”

August, 1992 - August, 2004:

      Assistant Professor (tenured), Department of Art (Chair, 1997-2000)

      Concordia College, Moorhead, Minnesota

      Committee and Community Service:

      Department Chair (1997-2000), Curriculum Committee, International

      Education Committee, Community Relations Committee, Credo (Honors) Committee,     

      Faculty Evaluation Committees, Student Orientation Advisor

Spring, 2005:

      Adjunct Professor, Queensboro Community College, Queens, New York

Fall, 2004 to Present:

      Adjunct Professor, Art History, Fordham University, Bronx, New York (two    

      courses/semester: Survey of Western Art History; Aesthetics/Art & Ethics)

STUDY/TRAVEL SEMINARS:

During the month of May, for nine of the twelve years that I taught at Concordia, I led
undergraduate travel seminars to various destinations in Europe,
North Africa, and the Middle East, always including at least ten
days in Italy.  These nine seminars, for which the college granted a full-course credit,
focused on different academic agendas, depending on the itinerary.  ---
In addition, in the spring semester of 2004, I co-led a semester-abroad
program for honors students to Greece, Italy, and Russia.

 

AWARDS AND HONORS:

High School Valedictorian (class of 750), June, 1967

Phi Beta Kappa, Duke University, 1971

The Travelling Fellowship, Union Theological Seminary, 1974

University of North Carolina Art Department Travel Grant (Italy), 1987

Pollard Grant, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill:

      Fall, 1987; Fall, 1988; Fall, 1989; Fall, 1990

Kress Fellow (dissertation fellowship) for the academic year 1995-1996

Sabbatical Leave, Concordia College, Fall Semester, 2002

Who’s Who in America, 2003 Edition

Who’s Who among America’s Teachers, 2003, 2006-2007 Edition

 

PUBLICATIONS and EXHIBITIONS:

Article: "Procession and Return: Bacchus, Poussin, and the Conquest of Ancient

Territory," Athanor 9, 1990 (journal of the Dept. of Art, Florida State University

Exhibitions (10): Annual Faculty Art Show, Concordia College Art Department:

1993-2002:: Photographs and Paintings

Book Review: Robin Margaret Jensen, Understanding Early Christian Art (London

& New York: Routledge, 2000) in Dialog: A Journal of Theology, vol. 40, no. 2 (Summer, 2001), pp. 157-159.

Book Review: Helen de Borchgrave, A Journey into Christian Art (Minneapolis:

Fortress Press, 2000) in Dialog: A Journal of Theology, vol. 40, no. 4 (Winter, 2001), pp. 316-317.

Exhibition: Photographs: “Encounters: Egypt and Greece”: Plains Art Museum, Fargo,

ND,January-March, 2002

Gallery Exhibition Catalog Essay: “Timothy Ray: Between Precision and Improvisation,”

Cyrus M. Running Gallery, Concordia College, Moorhead, MN, September 2 - October 14, 2002.

Exhibition: Juried One-Person Photography Exhibition: “Mural Magnificats.”  The

      Galleries at the Interchurch Center, 475 Riverside Drive, New York, New York.  

      September - October, 2007.

 

Selected Lectures and PRESENTATIONS:

 

"Vatican Prospects, 1582": Paper presented at the College Art Association Annual Meeting, New York, February 17, 1994.

 

“Faith and Knowledge: the Visual Arts”: Paper presented to the faculty, Concordia College, January, 1995.

 

“Virgin Territory: The Fate of the Figure in Italian Renaissance Art," Presentation at the Concordia College "Communiversity," Minneapolis, MN, February 11, 1996.

 

“Postures of Faith: The Stance of the Figure and Devotional Values,” Presentation at the Concordia College "Communiversity," Minneapolis, MN, February, 1997.

 

“Visual Pneumatologies: Form, Color and Light, Space and Place,” 3 Lectures at the First Presbyterian Church, Fargo, N.D., September 14, 21, 28, 1997.

 

“‘I could have done that!’: The Iconology of Abstraction and the Questions of the Referent,” Presentation to be given at the Concordia College "Communiversity," Minneapolis, MN, February, 1998.

 

“Shapers of the Landscape and the Values of Landscape Painting” (4 lectures), Fargo-Moorhead Communiversity, February 7, 14, 21, 28, 1998.

 

“Optical Condensations,” gallery talk, Running Gallery, Concordia, December 1, 1998.

 

“The Stylistic Nuancing of the Annunciation,” presentation at First Presbyterian Church, Fargo, December 9, 1998.

 

“Androgyny and the Depiction of Divinity,” presentation at First Presbyterian Church, Fargo, December 16, 1998.

 

“The Architecture of the Church of the Nativity, Fargo, ND: A Place to Be, a Place to Find,” 17 March 1999.

 

Presentation & Interdisciplinary Panel Participant in Connection with the Guthrie Theater’s Presentation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream: University of Minnesota at Moorhead, March 24, 2000.

 

“The Sublime in Music, Art, and Religion,” Presentation at First Presbyterian Church, Moorhead, Minnesota, Spring, 2000.

 

Panel Participant: “Wow Them and They Will Come: Bringing a Consumer Public into Today’s Art Museum,” Faith, Reason, and World Affairs Symposium, September, 2001.

 

“Latin American Painting,” lecture for Tri-College Spanish History Course, 1/23/01.

 

Paper Presentation: “Art for Art’s Sake/Art for the Church’s Sake,” “Building the

Church for 2010,” Annual Conference of The Liturgical Institute, Mundelein Seminary, University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois, 31 October 2002.

 

Panel Discussion: Respondent and Participant, “Building the Church for 2010,”

Annual Conference, The Liturgical Institute, Mundelein Seminary, University of St. Mary of the Lake, Mundelein, Illinois, 1 November 2002.

 

Paper Presentation: “Notes from a Catholic Pilgrimage to the Temple of Art,” Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, Annual Conference, “Epiphanies of Beauty: The Arts in a Post-Christian World,” November 16-18, 2004.

 

Paper Presentation: “Focus/Frame: The Historical and Contemporary Vocation of the Arts to the Liturgy,” Notre Dame Center for Liturgy Annual Conference, University of Notre Dame, June 20-22, 2005.

 

Scholar-in-Residence Presentation: “Art and Incarnation,” Trinity Presbyterian Church, Prescott, Arizona, December 12, 2006.

 

Presentation: “A Liminal Luminosity: Chagall & Matisse,” Presbytery Retreat, Hudson River Presbytery, Union Church, Pocantico Hills, New York, April 17, 2007.