Teaching and research interests include 19th and 20th-century European painting and sculpture with an emphasis on Romanticism and Symbolism; 听courses recently taught include Van Gogh and the 1890s, Picasso, Cubism, Dada, Surrealism and its off-shoots, as well as excursions in the Italian Renaissance, particularly Michelangelo.
Alhadeff has long been working on a book researching the state of people of color--free and enslaved--in France during the opening decades of the 19th century. His work focuses on the images of the Other as drawn by Theodore Gerricault, a leading proto-Romantic artist of the period. Aware of diversity within current art historical studies, Alhadeff brings a sensitivity to questions of the estranged.听
Single-author Volumes:
- Th茅odore G茅ricault: Painting Black Bodies. Confrontations and Contradictions.听Routledge Research in Art History, Routledge, New York and London, 2020
- 脡mile Verhaeren: Essays on the Northern Renaissance: Rembrandt. Rubens, Gr眉newald and Others.听Peter Lang Publishers, New York, Munich, Washington, 2012
- The Raft of the Medusa. G茅ricault, Art and Race. Prestel, Berlin, London, New York,听2003
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Book Chapters:
- 鈥淰erhaeren on Rembrandt鈥檚听folie.鈥� In听Mental Illnes in Symbolism. Ed. by Rosina Neginsky,听(Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cambridge, 2017), 63-83
- 鈥淯S and THEM: Camper鈥檚 odious听ligne faciale听and G茅ricault鈥檚 Beseeching Black.鈥� In听Blacks and Blackness in European Art of the Long Nineteenth Century. Ed. by Adrienne L. Childs and Susan H. Libby (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014), 47-67
- 鈥淔etis鈥檚听Coup de lance: Ensor and 脡mile Littre.鈥� In听Hommage: Robert Hoozee, Museum听voor Schone Kunsten, 1982-2012. Eds. by听听atherine Verleysen, et al.听Ghent: Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2014), 114-17
- 鈥淪piritualisme en zelfvertering in Minnes ,Jongeling鈥� en ,De kleine Gekwetste鈥�. In听听200 jaar verzamelen: Collectieboek Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent. Ed. by Arnout Balis and Robert Hoozee听听(Gent:听听Amsterdam, 2000), 181-87
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Catalogue Essays:
- 鈥淪erres chaudes: Inside-Outside, Outside-Inside鈥�.听In听Nature鈥檚 Mirror. Reality and Symbol in Belgian Landscape.听Exh. cat. Ed. by Jeffery Howe. Mc Mullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 95-102, 2017
- 鈥淢inne鈥檚 鈥渄rei heilege frauen鈥� und eine toten kunstlern geschnitze bildwelt鈥�. In听George Minne. Ein Anfang der moderne. Exh. cat. Ed. by Arie Hartog. Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, das bildhauermuseum norden, Bremem, Wienand, 32-49, 2014
- 鈥淢inne鈥檚 , drie heilige vrouwen鈥� en 鈥榚en door overleden kunstenaars uitgehouwen听听beeldenwereld.鈥� In听George Minne. Ein Anfang der moderne. Exh. cat. Ed. by Arie Hartog. Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, das bildhaernmuseum Norden, Bremen, Wienand 35-47 [in Flemish], 2014
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Journal Articles:
- 鈥淛ulian Barnes and听The Raft of the Medusa.鈥澨�The French Review听82. no. 2: 276-91, 2008
- 鈥淢eunier and Minne: Subterranean Visions and the Blue Summits of the Soul.鈥澨�Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts听65 no 1: 23-35, 1989
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Selected Honors and Awards:
- Kayden Fund, University of Colorado, 2019
- Guest lecturer at the University of Ghent,1997
- Guest lecturer for the Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Ghent, Belgium 198听
- Participant at the international Congress of the History of Art, Bologna, Italy, 1979
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Independent Study (N.E.H.)
- University of Colorado Faculty Fellowship, 1976
- Participant International Congress of the History of Art, Budapest, Hungary, 1969