Garelick is awarded visiting professorship at Princeton University

calendar icon05 Aug 2015    

Lincoln, Neb.--Rhonda Garelick has been awarded the Stanley Kelly, Jr., Visiting Professorship for Distinguished Teaching in Comparative Literature at Princeton University for 2015-2016.          

Garelick is professor of English in the UNL College of Arts and Sciences with a special joint appointment in the Hixson-Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts and is the founder and director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Symposium in the Hixson-Lied College. She is on leave from UNL to teach at Princeton this year.

“I am thrilled and honored that Princeton University has awarded me the Stanley Kelly, Jr., Visiting Professorship in Distinguished Teaching for 2015-2016,” Garelick said. “I will be based in the Department of Comparative Literature, but my courses will be cross-listed with Art History and Theatre Studies.”

As part of this appointment, Princeton invites her to work with faculty and graduate students on “the art and craft of teaching.”

“Toward that end, in the spring, I will be creating a new course, ‘Performing the Planet,’ exploring the relationship between the performing arts and climate change—on which I'll collaborate with the Princeton Environmental Institute, an interdisciplinary center for environmental research and education,” Garelick said.

Garelick writes on fashion, literature, the arts and cultural politics. Her most recent book is Mademoiselle: Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History (Random House 2014). Her other books include Rising Star: Dandyism, Gender, and Performance in the Fin de Siècle (Princeton University Press), Electric Salome: Loie Fuller’s Performance of Modernism (Princeton), and, as co-editor, Fabulous Harlequin: ORLAN and the Patchwork Self (University of Nebraska Press). Garelick’s work has also appeared in The New York Times, Salon, New York Newsday, the Los Angeles Times and the Sydney Morning Herald, as well as in many other journals and museum catalogs in the U.S. and Europe.

Garelick is a Guggenheim Fellow and has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Research Institute, the Dedalus Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Whiting Foundation and the American Council of Learned Societies.

She received her B.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature and French from Yale University.  She has taught at Yale; the University of Colorado, Boulder; Connecticut College; Columbia University; and the CUNY Graduate Center. Garelick has also had a long career as an international business consultant, specializing in media and journalism.