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Olivia Florek

Olivia Florek

Associate Professor of Art History

Ph.D.

I am an Associate Professor of Art History at Delaware County Community College. Since joining the faculty in 2015, I have developed both online and traditional classroom courses that emphasize the value of critical looking in the contemporary world.

Phone 610-325-2775
Email oflorek@dccc.edu

Education

B.A. – Art History, Swarthmore College

M.A. – Art History, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Ph.D. – Art History, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey

Academic Biography

Papers

  • 鈥淜aiserin Elisabeth und die Moderne im Bild.鈥� In Sisi Privat: Die Fotoalben der Kaiserin (2020)

Presentations

Awards, Grants and other Scholarly Recognitions

  • Awardee, Pennsylvania Grants for Open and Affordable Learning, Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc (2021)

Books

  • The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 2023

My book “The Celebrity Monarch: Empress Elisabeth and the Modern Female Portrait” (University of Delaware Press, 2023) examines how portraits of Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-1898) contributed to the development of modern female portraiture. In addition to my research on nineteenth-century female portraiture, I curate a yearly exhibition of contemporary art at the Delaware County Community College Gallery and coordinate our annual juried exhibition 215/610 CONTEMPORARY.

Scholarly Interests

Modern Art, Contemporary Art, Portraiture, Nineteenth-Century Art, Painting, Photography, Prints, Austrian Art, Celebrity Culture