Joan Halperin  |  Interests  |  Scholarship  

Education:

• Ph.D. Romance Languages and Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 1967
• M.A. French, University of California, Berkeley,, 1959
• Graduate studies Sorbonne, Paris, 1958
• B.A. French with Honors, University of California, Berkeley, 1955
• Undergratuate studies Université de Genève, Switzerland, 1954

Teaching Experience:

• Professor - Department of Modern Languages and Collegiate Seminar, Saint Mary's College of California (1974 - Present)
• Associate Professor - University of Maine (1967 - 1970)
• Instructor in French - Wesleyan University, Conn (1965 - 1966)
• Instructor in French - University of Chicago, (1964 - 1965)
• Lectrice d'américain - Sorbonne (1956 - 1957)

Professional Experience:

• Acting Chair of the Department of Modern Languages - Saint Mary's College (1993 - 1994)
• Chair of the Department of Modern Languages - Saint Mary's College (1985 - 1990)

Awards:

• Prix France-Amérique - (July 04, 1991)
  For Félix Fénéon, Art et Anarchie dans le Paris fin-de-siècle (Paris: Gallimard, 1991)
• Gilbert Chinard Literary Prize - (1986)
  For the manuscript, Félix Fénéon, Aesthete and Anarchist.

Fellowships:

• Guggenheim Fellowship - (1991)
  1990-91, to research a biography of Louise Hervieu, French artist and social activist.
• Resident Fellow - Camargo Foundation, Cassis, France (1988)
• National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Fellowship - (1985)
  1984-85.
• American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship, - (1977)
  1976-77
• A. B. Johnson Traveling Fellow to France - U. C. Berkeley (1963)
  1961-62 and 1962-63.
• Presbyterian Church Fellowship to work in Paris with CIMADE - (1956)
  1955-56.

Grants:

• American Philosophical Society, Research Grant - (1993)
  To interview rescuers of Jews in Holland.
• Nijenrode Scholarship to complete study of Dutch at Zomercursus voor NederlandseTaal en Cultuur - Netherlands Ministry of Education (1992)
• American Philosophical Society, Research Grant - (1991)
  To record memories of survivors of Holocaust.
• NEH Travel to Collections Grant, Paris - (June 1990)

Honor:

• Djerassi Foundation Artist in Residence - (1996)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• "The Ironic Eye and the Unconscious: Seurat and the Poet Jules Laforgue,". Halperin, Joan (talk, speech or lecture)
  New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  (December 07, 1991)
• "Perspectives sur le symbolisme en peinture,". Halperin, Joan (talk, speech or lecture)
  Musée d'Orsay, Paris
  (May 18, 1991)
• "Facing Distortion in Biography: the Life of Louise Hervieu,". Halperin, Joan (talk, speech or lecture)
  College Art Association, Washington D. C.
  (February 1991)
• "Ambiguous Encounters: Poets and Painters in the Post-Impressionist Era,". Halperin, Joan (talk, speech or lecture)
  Toledo, Ohio, Museum of Art
  (November 07, 1990)
• "Inventing Neo-Impressionism: Seurat and Félix Fénéon," Symposium, Seurat, the Last Landscapes, I. Halperin, Joan (talk, speech or lecture)
  Indianapolis Museum of Art
  (November 03, 1990)

Publications:

• Halperin, Joan. "The Ironic Eye in Jules Laforgue and Georges Seurat." SEURAT REVIEWED (2010)
• Halperin, Joan. "Charles Angrand: Correspondances, 1883-1926." Rouen S.I. (1989)
• Halperin, Joan. Félix Fénéon, Aesthete and Anarchist in Fin-de-siècle Paris.. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
• Halperin, Joan. ""Jamais Qu'unique: Paradoxes in a Critic's View of Monet," in Le Gai Savoir, Essays in Linguistics, Philology, and Criticism, in Memory of Mandred Sandmann." Potomac MD: Studia Humanitatis (1983): 168-197
• Halperin, Joan. "Fe1ix Feneon and the Language of Art Criticism." Studies in the Fine Arts: Criticism. Ed. Arbor, Ann UMI Research Press, 1980
• Halperin, Joan. ""Scientific Criticism and le beau moderne of the Age of Science,"." Art Criticism 1 1 (1979): 55-71
• Halperin, Joan. "Félix Fénéon, OEuvres Plus que complètes vol. I Chroniques d'art." Geneva: Droz, 1970
• Halperin, Joan. ""La Critique d'art au Père peinard,"." Nouvelle revue française 13 (1966): 838-39