Assistant Professor
Dr. Eric J. Weichel’s most recent academic publication is ‘Collaborative Pedagogy and Art History: Inclusive Curriculums in the Northern Setting’, Journal of Canadian Art History XXXVI:3 (Spring, 2024), while his most recent conference presentation is ‘Aethra and Clymene: Art History and the Handmaidens of Helen of Troy’, India Eighteenth-Century Studies Society, Shaheed Bhagat Singh College of Delhi University (Delhi, India), January 2023.
Before joining VCU in 2024, he taught for nine years at the Department of Fine and Performing Arts at Nipissing University in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. He has also held fellowships at the Lewis Walpole Library (Yale University, Farmington, CT) and a 2 year SSHRC-funded postdoc at Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec). He earned his PhD in 2013 at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. He is currently working on a paper exploring the role of museum illustration in recreations of historical life linked to transatlantic colonization in so-called “New Spain”, with a particular focus on gendered representations of race and Indigenity in large in-situ murals, installations and animations.
Areas of Scholarly Interest and Research:
- Collaborative pedagogy, experiential learning and interdisciplinary Method
- Film theory, the gendered gaze, and historicity in Film
- Gender, sexuality and design in Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture
- Dance, fantasy and ritual in palace societies, including their commemoration in contemporary Narrative Media
- Francophilia, fashion and self-performance in portraiture
- Chinoiserie, orientalism and narrative in Ceramics
- History and nationhood in the historiography of the academic tradition