Joe Lucchesi
Associate Professor of Art
Departments: Art History
Office: Montgomery Hall 145
Email: jelucchesi@smcm.edu
Phone: 240-895-4248
Bio
oe Lucchesi arrived at St. Mary's in 2000. At St. Mary's, he teaches Western art from Ancient to Modern. His other teaching interests include issues of gender and sexuality, alternative media, critical theory, and museum studies. He curated Amazons in the Drawing Room: the Art of Romaine Brooks at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC and the University Museums at the University of California at Berkeley in 2000, as part of his ongoing research interests in the visual strategies of emerging gay and lesbian subcultures of the early 20th century. His current research focuses on issues of history and memory in photography and on images of the American soldier in World War 2-era advertising campaigns. Dr. Lucchesi received his PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Recent Scholarships
- "The Body's Shadow: Archives, Photographs, and Queer Desire"
- Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association National Conference San Francisco, March 2008
- "Naked Soldiers, Homoeroticism, and Selling Towels from the Front in WW2," National Popular Culture/American Culture Association conference, 2007
- " Alfred Maurer and the Modern Body," Weisman Art Musuem, University of Minnesota, April 2005.
- "Ballbreakers and Companions: Feminists and Lesbians in the Film Possession," National Popular Culture/American Culture Association conference, 2003.
- Something Hidden, Secret, and Eternal: Romaine Brooks, Radclyffe Hall, and the Lesbian Image in The Forge," The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars, eds. Whitney Chadwick and Tirza Latimer (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2003), 169-182.
- Amazons in the Drawing Room. Exhibition Catalogue. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
