Below is a list of faculty that are active in the department, and available to students with course specific questions. If you need administrative support, we encourage you to refer your questions to one of the following;

  • The Chair of the department can address detailed program questions, including program requirements, planning and selection, research opportunities, graduate studies, and more.
  • The Academic Advisor, if available, can offer support including course registration and course load, important dates, academic policies and more.
  • The Academic Deans serve as the academic and administrative anchors to the professors within their Faculties or Schools as well as the students.

Faculty of the Art History Department:

Contact Information is found in the BU Directory
Dr. Gentiane Belanger

Dr. Gentiane Belanger

Dr. Bruce Gilbert

Dr. Bruce Gilbert

Full Professor

Claude Lacroix earned his B.A. Honours in Visual Arts from the University of Ottawa, his Masters in Art History/Fine Arts from the Université de Montréal and his Ph.D. in Art History and Theory from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, where he held a SSHRC Doctoral scholarship.

Mr. Jean Klucinskas

Jean Klucinskas

Contract Faculty

Jean Klucinskas has a Bachelors in Fine Arts (B.F.A) from Concordia University, and an M.A. in Philosophy, from Université de Montréal; writing on Hegel’s Aesthetics. He subsequently entered the PhD. Program in Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal. His doctoral thesis is on the Discourses of Artistic Production in France, Germany and England during the Eighteenth Century.

Jean Klucinskas teaches a variety of courses that concern the history of ideas and the Fine Arts. His research interests are in the areas of Aesthetics and early modern theories of Art in XVIIIe Century Europe. He is also interested in concepts of the «image» and of «visuality», film theory and Photography; looking in particular at how Photography and Film have been used in recent Art.

Research Interests:

  • The Institution of Art Criticism and of Aesthetics.
  • Art theories in early Modernity: French, German and English (1660-1820).
  • The Culture of Enlightenment and XVIIIe Century Europe.
  • Theories of the Image and Visuality.
  • The use of Photography and Film in Contemporary Art.
  • Cultural Recycling.

Books (co-edited)

Transmédiations, traversées culturelles de la modernité tardive, Mélanges offerts à Walter Moser, Eds. Jean-François Vallée, Jean Klucinskas et Gilles Dupuis, Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2012. 324 p.

Esthétique et recyclage culturel, exploration de la culture contemporaine, Eds. Jean Klucinskas et Walter Moser, Ottawa: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2004.

Articles

«Préface préposthume: Un homme aux qualités transversales», 5-22, Jean-François Vallée & Jean Klucinskas, in Transmédiations, traversées culturelles de la modernité tardive, Mélanges offerts à Walter Moser, Sous la direction de Jean-François Vallée, Jean Klucinskas et Gilles Dupuis, Montréal: Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2012. 324p.

«Le corps immaculé : l’image d’Antinoüs chez Hogarth et Diderot », 319-337, dans Le corps romanesque ; images et usages topiques sous l’Ancien Régime. Presses universitaires de Laval, (Québec). Sous la direction de Monique Moser-Verrey, Lucie Desjardins et Chantal Turbide, 2009. (Second printing: Éd. Hermann, Paris: 2015)

«Introduction», Jean Klucinskas & Walter Moser, 1-27, Esthétique et recyclage culturel, exploration de la culture contemporaine, dir. Jean Klucinskas et Walter Moser, Ottawa: Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2004. (Trans. «A estética à prova da reciclagem cultural» 17- 42, Literatura Scripta : Revista do Centro de Estudos Luso-afro-brasileiros da PUC Minas: Brasil, Vol. 11, No. 20, 2007)

«La dramatisation et l’intensité de la répétition» 151-160, dans Esthétique et recyclage culturel, exploration de la culture contemporaine, dir. Jean Klucinskas et Walter Moser, Ottawa : Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 2004.

«On Jay David Bolter and the Concept of Remediation», Web Review / Compte rendu de la Scéance «Remediation / Mise en Abîme» in Archée: Cybermensuel, November 2003. (http://archee.qc.ca/ar.php?page=imp&no=216)

«L’émulation : le style de l’Autre», Sur ma manière de travailler : Actes du colloque Art et Psychanalyse II,  Sous la direction de Hervé Bouchereau et Chantal Pontbriand, Montréal: Éd. Parachute, 2001.