Alexis L. BOYLAN

Associate Professor of Art History and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

Department of Art + Art History and Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies

PhD, Rutgers University

Alexis L. Boylan is an associate professor with a joint appointment in the Art and Art History Department and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Program. Professor Boylan is Associate Director of the Humanities Institute at UConn.

She is the author of Ashcan Art, Whiteness, and the Unspectacular Man (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017) and editor of Thomas Kinkade, The Artist in the Mall (Duke University Press, 2011). Boylan has articles published in American Art, Journal of Curatorial Studies, MELUS, Rethinking Marxism, Prospects, and Woman’s Art Journal as well as contributing essays to numerous museum exhibition catalogues. She is currently working on an exhibition about painter Ellen Emmet Rand set to open in 2018, and her next book project focuses on the murals and sculpture created for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

Email	Alexis.Boylan@UConn.edu