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| Joe Lucchesi |

Romaine Brooks, Self Portrait, 1923 |
| Joe
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 scholarship |

1943 Cannon Towels advertisement |
• “Naked
Soldiers, Homoeroticism, and Selling Towels from the Front in WW2,” National
Popular Culture/American Culture Association conference, 2007
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“ Alfred Maurer and the Modern Body,” Weisman Art Musuem,
University of Minnesota, April 2005.
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“Ballbreakers and Companions: Feminists and Lesbians in the Film
Possession," National Popular Culture/American Culture Association
conference, 2003.
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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.
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Amazons in the Drawing Room. Exhibition Catalogue. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 2000. |
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contact information
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e jelucchesi@smcm.edu
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