Update:
The application deadline for the Terra Visiting Professorships in
American Art (2009-2010 and 2010-2011) is postponed to April 5.

[Message posted on H-ArtHist 25 January 2009]

Dear colleagues,

With sponsorship from the Terra Foundation for American Art, the
Institut national d'Histoire de l'Art (Paris), the Ecole Normale
Supérieure (Paris), the Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense
and the Université François Rabelais deTours are pleased to announce

- a new two-year fellowship for the teaching and study of historical
American art (pre-1980) (2009-2010) and
- two five-week Terra Visiting Professorships in American Art (2009-2010
and 2010-2011).

More detailed information is availableon the site
http://www.dhta.ens.fr.

Deadline for applications : Februray 1st, 2009 (Postdoctoral Fellowship)
and February 5, 2009 (Visiting Professorship).

The Visiting Professorships are available through the Institut National
d'Histoire de l'Art for the academic years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 to
senior academics whose work examines American art and visual culture
with a secondary specialization in transcultural context/transatlantic
exchanges. The candidate is not required to hold a teaching position in
American art history as long as American art, or art and visual culture
produced in the United States, constitutes a substantial part of his/her
area of specialization and courses taught. The chronological focus of
research and teaching can encompass, but is not limited to, 19th and
20th century American art and visual culture.

The postdoctoral Fellowship will enable a recent postdoctoral scholar to
teach in the three mentioned institutions (the Ecole Normale Supérieure,
the Université de Paris-Ouest Nanterre La Défense and the Université
François Rabelais de Tours), and to participate in research related to
their fields of study. All courses will be taught in English, and will
address students from the third year of university to the doctorate
level ; they will be either students in art history, or students in
American or Anglo-Saxon studies. The subjects of the two courses will
focus on American art topics (nineteenth century, twentieth century,
either pre- or post-WWII), but courses related to American art
methodologies and topics (history of art and cultural studies) will also
be considered. A course proposal based on international artistic
relationships (transatlantic or transpacific) would also be welcome.

For the Selection Committee,
Dr. Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel

Maître de conférences (Associated Professor)
Histoire de l'art contemporain
Ecole normale supérieure, 45 rue d'Ulm, 75 005 Paris- France
beatrice.joyeux-prunelens.fr