Saskia Beranek
Assistant Professor, Art History
Wonsook Kim School of Art
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Center for the Visual Arts - CVA 203A
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Biography
Saskia Beranek received her PhD in Dutch art and architectural history from the University of Pittsburgh. She came to ISU after teaching widely in Pittsburgh and at Colby College.
Current Courses
156.001Survey Of Art II
415.001Seminar in Renaissance and Baroque Art -Global Encounter and Exchange in Renaissance Art
305.001Seminar in Renaissance and Baroque Art/Architecture: Global Exchanges in Renaissance Art
156.001Survey Of Art II
Teaching Interests & Areas
Dutch and Flemish Art, Global Encounters in the Renaissance and Early Modern, Early Modern Print Culture, Women as Artists and Patrons
Research Interests & Areas
Seventeenth-century Dutch Art and Architecture, Women Artists and Patrons, Portraiture, Garden Design, History of Display
Research Initiative Award
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2022
Harold Gregor Endowed Professor 2022-2024
Wonsook Kim School of Art
2022
Outstanding Teaching Initiative Award
Illinois State University
2021
Outstanding Teaching Initiative Award
Wonsook Kim College of Fine Arts
2021
2021 Collaborative Project Award
Society of the Study of Early Modern Women and Gender (SSEMWG)
2021
Book, Chapter
Saskia Beranek and Sheila ffolliott, “The Agency of Portrayal: The Active Portrait in the Early Modern Period.” In Challenging Women and Agency in the Early Modern World, ed. Merry Wiesner-Hanks. Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
Beranek, S. In Living Memory: Architecture, Gardens, and Identity at Huis ten Bosch. Women Artists and Patrons in The Netherlands: 1500-1700. Amsterdam University Press (2019)
Beranek, S. Govert Flink and the Houses of Orange and Brandenburg: Networks and Influence. Stephanie Dickey (EDs), Ferdinand Bol and Govert Flinck: New Research. WBooks (2017)
Journal Article
Beranek, S. Strategies of Display in the Galleries of Amalia van Solms. JHNA (Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art. Historians of Netherlandish Art 9.2 (2017)
Presentations
Making the Self: Gendered Portrait Display in/as Dutch Elite Palace Spaces in the Seventeenth Century . Portraiture and the Construction of Identity. Kunsthistorisches Institut, Universität Bonn. (2023)
A Baluster. na. Amsterdam Center for the Study of Early Modernity (University of Amsterdam) and Museum het Prinsenhof, Delft. (2022)
Making Faces and Mapping Spaces. ISU WKSoA Faculty Biennial. (2022)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvSngpynihw
Intermediality as Feminist Practice: Active Agency in the Early Modern Dutch Republic. Renaissance Society of America Annual Conference. Renaissance Society of America. (2021)
Mapping Communities in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam. Sixteenth Century Society Conference. Sixteenth Century Society. (2019)
Henri Lefebvre and the Social Space of the Early Modern Court. Mobility and Space in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe Symposium. Oxford University. (2017)