Alexis
Boylan, assistant professor of art history, teaches 19th and 20th century European
and American art and also is a member of the gender
studies faculty. Particularly
interested in the presentation and performance of masculinity in turn-of-the-20th-century
American paintings and sculpture, she is working on a book to be titled Man
on the Street: The Urban Man in the Art of the Ashcan School. During June,
she participated in the Global Partners Project faculty-development seminar,
studying “The Arts in Russia’s Changing Economy and Society” in
St. Petersburg and Moscow. Her essay, “‘The Spectacle of a Merely
Charming Girl’: Abastenia St. Leger Eberle’s Girl Skating,” was
published in Perspectives on American Sculpture Before 1925, edited
by Thayer Tolles. In the fall of 2004, Professor Boylan received the prestigious
Chester Dale Art
History Fellowship from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, allowing her to spend
three months at the museum researching and writing an article on American sculptor
Augustus Saint-Gaudens and his portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson, which is
visible on the wall behind her. Among the 39 recipients of the Metropolitan
Museum fellowships, she was the only one from a liberal arts college. She joined
the Lawrence faculty in 2002, after earning a bachelor’s degree in history
at Bryn Mawr College and the Ph.D. in art history at Rutgers University.