Ross Barrett

Historian of American Art + Professor at Boston University. Books: Speculative Landscapes, Rendering Violence, Oil Culture. Boston Terrier aficionado.

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

I haven’t actually held it in my hands yet so it feels a little abstract, but my real estate book is apparently out and available for purchase! So excited!!!

https://t.co/ThR5biFZT4

[sari edelstein @NotSorrySari]

https://t.co/oJxmlJKp8S

[sari edelstein @NotSorrySari]

Hi blue humanities folks! The *Oceanic New England* issue of @_NEQuarterly_ that I co-edited w @ProfRossBarrett is out & it's beautiful! Essays on seaweed aesthetics, hurricane panoramas, archipelagic painting, & more by @AlisonGlassie, Naomi Slipp @marinadawnwells, Kimia Shahi

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Legendary Marxist critic Fredric Jameson (1934-2024) spent his life and career committed to socialist ideas.
In Jacobin last year, Jameson, argued that socialists today can revive utopian ideals by showing that change is, in fact, possible. https://t.co/KKDdMM0vjH

[BU Grad Workers @gradworkersofBU]

🗣️🗣️🗣️WHAT DOES @SenWarren want the BU admin to know???

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

THREAD: Boston University is so determined to union-bust its own students that they’re proposing replacing grad workers with AI.

And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

It's been awhile since I've posted, but here's something new: I published a review of Sophie Lynford's
terrific book Painting Dissent: Art, Ethics, and the American Pre-Raphaelites on https://t.co/ig0ELwvpYc. Check it out! @caavisual

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

Please spread the word! BU’s Department of History of Art & Architecture is looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of African American and/or African Diaspora Art. For full details see:

https://t.co/q2IRaG96WR

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

Please spread the word! BU’s Department of History of Art & Architecture is looking to hire a tenure-track Assistant Professor of African American and/or African Diaspora Art. For full details see:

https://t.co/q2IRaG96WR

[Boston University Preservation Studies @buPrStudies]

We are hiring: Our MA program in Preservation Studies is seeking to hire a new Director of Preservation Studies at the rank of tenured Full Professor. For the full job announcement see: https://t.co/0QJCdgYCZa

[Association of Historians of 19th Century Art @AHNCA19]

We’re pleased to share the #CFP for our sponsored session at #CAA2024, chaired by @sarahcschaefer! Be sure to get your proposals in for “The Dark Fantastic in Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture” by August 31st via @caavisual’s submission portal.

https://t.co/gU6cdMjFdY

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

Vacation vibes.

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

@atvetenstrand Congrats Astrid!

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

Springtime magic in Boston: showers, daffodils, and the year’s first crop of fresh nips in the street

[American & New England Studies Program @BUAmnesp]

Check out this amazing class for FALL 2023 taught by our own @clee_max 🤓👏🤓

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

Congrats to @carolinemriley for publishing “Moma Goes to Paris in 1938”! So exciting!

[AHAA @AHAAamericanart]

Congratulations to AHAA Member @carolinemriley on the publication of "MoMA Goes to Paris in 1938: Building and Politicizing American Art"! 🎉 @ucpress

#AmericanArt #MemberSpotlight #NewPublication

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

Happy patriots day from Mt. Watatic!

[Ampersand: An American Studies Journal @AmpersandBU]

See below for our Summer 2023 CFP! Abstracts due May 19th. Link for submission: https://t.co/WP7JJDhXVN

[American & New England Studies Program @BUAmnesp]

Congratulations to Dr. Megan LeBarron, PhD! (@LeRedBarron) She successfully defended her dissertation, “Heartland Cosmopolitanism: The Midwest And Literary Modernism in The Work of Willa Cather and Sinclair Lewis,” this afternoon! Congratulations, Megan!!!!!! 🥳📕👏

[Ross Barrett @ProfRossBarrett]

Congratulations to Dr. Astrid Tvetenstrand (@atvetenstrand), for successfully defending her @BUAmnesp dissertation “Buying a View: American Landscape Painting and Gilded Age Vacation Culture, 1870-1917.” Yay Astrid!

[Maia Gil'Adí @maiagiladi]

Join me next week! I'll be talking about "doom patterns" in Latinx literature and Hernan Díaz's _In the Distance_🤓📚🖊️