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Nina Antonetti
Assistant Professor in Landscape Studies
nantonet@email.smith.edu
Nina Antonetti received her doctorate in landscape and architectural history from the Victorian Study Centre, University of London, and has held research positions in the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Currently, she is finishing writing a book about “socialized landscapes”—those public landscapes where social, political, and cultural boundaries dissolve to foster diversity on common ground, like Central Park and the Appalachian Trail—and has signed a book contract with the Library of American Landscape History to write a critical analysis of the landscape architecture of internationally renowned Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (Smith '44). As the first faculty hire in this pioneering program, Antonetti teaches the core curriculum in the Landscape Studies program, including Introduction to Landscape Studies; Socialized Landscapes: Private Squalor and Public Affluence; Suburbia: the Middle Landscape; and Rethinking Landscape. A proponent of “activism by design,” she leads students to undertake challenging theoretical projects within the community, such as a playground design, a new park entrance, and a therapeutic garden.
Reid Bertone-Johnson
Lecturer in Landscape Studies and Art (Architecture)
rbertone@email.smith.edu
Reid Bertone-Johnson earned a B. S. in geological sciences and
environmental studies from Tufts University and also holds a M. L. A.
from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an Ed. M. from Harvard
University's Graduate School of Education. His courses include
Landscape and Narrative (LSS 250), Art and Ecology (LSS 255), and
Introduction to Architecture (ARS 283). He currently splits his
professional time between Smith and Dodson Associates, in Ashfield,
Massachusetts, [ www.dodsonassociates.com ] where he is an associate landscape architect. His
research and professional interests include the landscape designs and planning of Warren H. Manning (1860-1938) and the integration of
technological tools including GIS, AutoCAD, and 3D modeling into the
design process. He works on projects ranging from regional viewshed
analyses of historically sensitive areas and newly proposed wind farms
to historic preservation of towns, village centers, and cultural
landscapes. He was awarded an ASLA Honor Award for his student work in
the MLA program at the University of Massachusetts.
Bertone-Johnson recently left his position as the Warren H. Manning Project Coordinator at the Library of American Landscape History in Amherst, Massachusetts, [ www.lalh.org ]where he remains a consultant. He was also a science
teacher at Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Mass., where he
taught earth science, environmental science, and a wilderness survival
course.
Dean Flower
Professor of English Language and Literature
dflower@smith.edu
Dean Flower, Professor of English, studied at Oberlin College,
the University of Michigan, and Stanford University, where
he received his PhD in English and American Literature in
1966. He has taught a wide range of courses in American literature,
including Modern American Writing, Recent American Writing,
Realism and Naturalism from 1865-1914, and seminars on such
subjects as Henry James, William Faulkner, Poe and Nabokov,
Dickinson and Bishop, Welty and Morrison, and Visions of American
Landscape. He also teaches occasionally in the Film Studies
Program, including courses on Film Noir, Alfred Hitchcock,
Ingmar Bergman, and a course that theorizes cinematic narrative
called Mystery, Cinema, Narrativity. He has written monographs
on Henry James and John Updike, edited anthologies of short
novels, of American short stories, of works by Thoreau, and
of works by James, and he has published articles and reviews
in The New England Quarterly, The Massachusetts
Review, Essays in Criticism, and The Hudson
Review, where he has served as an advisory editor since
1982. His most recent work on issues of American literature
and landscape are "Nature Does Not Exist for Us" (Hudson Review, Summer, 1999), "Thrush Music,
Audubon, and The Birds of America" (Hudson Review,
fall 2000), and a long encyclopedia article on "Wendell
Berry" just published in Scribner's American Writers
Supplement X . For Smith's 1994 Symposium on the Landscape
of New England, he contributed a lecture entitled "Herbs and Apples, Beans and Bogs: Gardens in the Literature
of New England." And last fall he offered a new colloquium,
Eng. 120, called "Reading the Landscape." It combines
the reading of mainly American essays, personal narratives,
and modern poems in a manner reflected in today's discussion
of "Thoreau, Mary Oliver, and the Poetics of Landscape."
Andrew Guswa
Assistant Professor of Engineering
aguswa@smith.edu
Andrew Guswa is a professor in the new Picker
Engineering Program at Smith College. He is a civil and
environmental engineer with a particular focus on environmental
fluid mechanics and hydrology, and his research involves modeling
the movement of water through the natural environment, with
particular attention to flow beneath the ground surface. In
1994, Professor Guswa graduated from Princeton University
with a B.S.E. from the Department of Civil Engineering and
Operations Research. He received his M.S.C.E. from Stanford
University in 1995, and stayed to pursue a Ph.D. in the Department
of Civil and Environmental Engineering. At Smith, Professor
Guswa teaches courses in fluid mechanics, hydrology, water
resources, and structural engineering. He views his teaching
as an opportunity to pass on his enthusiasm for and knowledge
of the built and natural environment. Given today's rapidly
changing society, he believes a successful engineering graduate
will have a deep understanding of engineering fundamentals
along with the skills necessary to evaluate, assimilate, reapply,
and communicate new concepts and information.
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Syndenham C. Parsons Professor, American Studies
hhorowit@smith.edu
Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz enjoys working in a number of fields
that connect her interest in American History
with Women's Studies, cultural geography, education, biography,
sexual representation, and free speech. She began learning
about this at Wellesley where she got her B.A. in 1963 and
Harvard, where she got her American Studies Ph.D. in 1969.
She continued learning at MIT, Union College, Scripps College,
and the University of Southern California, where she taught
before coming to Smith. She is the author of the following
books: Culture and the City: Cultural Philanthropy in
Chicago from the 1880s to 1917, Alma Mater: Design
and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century
Beginnings to the 1930s, Campus Life: Undergraduate
Cultures from the End of the Eighteenth Century to the Present,
The Power and Passion of M. Carey Thomas, Rereading
Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Suppression in Nineteenth-Century
America, and co-editor of Love Across the Color Line:
The Letters of Alice Hanley and editor of Landscape
in Sight: J.B. Jackson's America. At Smith she currently
teaches The Culture of Cities, a U.S. history course with
a strong landscape component.
Barbara Kellum
Professor, Art Department
bkellum@smith.edu
Barbara Kellum is a professor of art and a scholar of ancient
Mediterranean art and architecture. She holds the BA
and a Masters degree in history from the University of Southern
California, a Masters in the history of art from the University
of Michigan, and the PhD in the history of art from Harvard
University. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned
Societies, and her current book project focuses on the house
of two former slaves in Pompeii, the House of the Vettii. At
the heart of that house is a garden peristyle and gardens,
and the landscape history of the villas and towns around the
Bay of Naples plays a significant role in her ARH 285 course
Great Cities: Pompeii. Her interest in landscape studies was
first established in her 1994 Art Bulletin article "The
Construction of Landscape in Augustan Rome: the Garden Room
at the Villa ad Gallinas." Other interdisciplinary interests
include Film Studies, Archaeology, and Ancient Studies.
Ann Leone
Professor of French Studies, Director of Landscape Studies
Program
aleone@email.smith.edu
Ann Leone is presently director of the new Landscape Studies
Program at Smith. Her BA, in French, is from Smith, and she
did her Ph.D. in French literature at Brown University. In
the French Department, she teaches first- and second-year
French language and nineteenth- and early twentieth-century
French literature. She also teaches the basis for the Comp
Lit major, Smith's "great books" course, General
Literature. Ann is particularly interested in the history
of landscape and has published essays on the functions of
gardens and other landscapes in French, Russian, British,
and American literature. She teaches several Comparative Literature
courses related to this research: The Garden: Paradise or
Battleground?; Bitter Homes and Gardens; Literary Ecology;
a First Year Seminar entitled Reading, Writing, and Placemaking:
Landscape Studies; and a French literature course, Dream Places
and Nightmare Spaces.
Michael Marcotrigiano
Professor of Biological Sciences, Director of the Botanic
Garden of Smith College
mmarcotr@smith.edu
Professor of Biological Sciences and Director of the Botanic
Garden of Smith College; Ph.D. University of Maryland at College
Park. Areas of interest include plant development, plant breeding,
and landscape plant material. Formerly an instructor at the
National Arboretum in Washington, D.C. Currently, directs
all aspects of the Lyman Conservatory and the 125 acre landscape
of the Botanic Garden of Smith College. Teaching responsibilities
include Landscape Plants and Issues (Biology 202) and Horticulture
(Biology 204). Director of the educational component of the
Botanic Garden of Smith College, which includes exhibitions,
seminar series, and newsletters. Coordinates the international
collection and dispersal of all plants. Performs research
in the area of plant variety development and the propagation
of endangered species.
James Middlebrook
Lecturer, Art Department
jmiddleb@email.smith.edu
Douglas Patey
Sophia Smith Professor of English Language & Literature
dpatey@smith.edu
Douglas Lane Patey is a Professor of English
whose special interest is eighteenth-century British and European
literature and culture. He received an A.B. from Hamilton
College (1972) before going on to a masters' degrees (in Philosophy
and English) and a Ph.D. at the University of Virginia (1979).
He has been the recipient of fellowships from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned
Societies, and the Guggenheim Foundation. His publications
include Probability and Literary Form (1984) and
Evelyn Waugh: A Critical Biography (1998), as well
as essays on Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson,
G.W.F. Hegel, and the development of literary theory 1660-1820.
He's now at work on a book about the emergence of modern disciplinary
divisions between the "arts" and the "sciences."
He teaches courses on Pope and Swift; the eighteenth-century
novel; history of the English language; "The Technology
of Reading and Writing" (on the history of literacy);
satire; history of criticism; and occasional seminars on Jane
Austen and Evelyn Waugh. He is also active in Smith's interdepartmental
program in the History of Science, where he team-teaches "Images
and Understanding" (a history of theories of vision,
light, and visualization).
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