Dena Gilby
Dena Gilby
Professor
Endicott College School of Visual and Performing Arts
Contact
Walter J. Manninen Center for the Arts
dgilby@endicott.edu
978-232-2171

Profile

Dr. Gilby is the Walter J. Manninen Endowed Chair for Art History. She holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor’s degree from St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her research areas identity formation in ancient Greece and Rome, the use of classical myth within contemporary art, the representation of the artist in major studio films, and the employment of art within the Hollywood action genre.

Education

University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master's and PhD
Art History
1996

St. Louis University
Bachelor's
English Literature and Classical Humanities
1987

Courses

ART101 Visual Art and Cultural Values I: Prehistory to c. 1310
ART102 Visual Art and Cultural Values II: Fourteenth Century to the Present
ART238 Modern and Postmodern Art: From the 1870s through the 1970s
ART322 Contemporary Art in a Global Context

Accomplishments

Awards

  • Kress Foundation CIC Summer Art History Seminar, 2014, Teaching Premodern Art of Europe—The Uses of Antiquity, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.

  • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 2003, Native American Art and Literature in Historical and Cultural Context, The Evergreen State College (Gail Tremblay, Director), Olympia, WA.

  • Margaret Davidson Schorger Fellowship, 1993-1994, University of Wisconsin-Madison to study at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens.

  • Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1987.

  • Magna cum laude, St. Louis University, 1987.

Talks

  • Gilby, D. (2024, November 13-15). Gamifying Art History–Using Hidden Object Rooms to Advance Knowledge of Art’s Contexts and Meanings [Conference presentation]. 6th World Congress on Education, Singapore.

  • Gilby, D. (2024, May 24-26). Mourning in the Optative Mood: The Case of the Eleusis Amphora [Conference presentation]. 19th Annual Arts in Society Conference, Seoul, South Korea.

  • Gilby, D. (2023, June 5-8). Classical Myth, Renaissance Interpretation, and Contemporary Art: Women Artists and Botticelli’s Birth of Venus [Conference presentation]. ATINER 14th International Conference on the Visual and Performing Arts, Athens, Greece.

  • Gilby, D. (2023, April 12-15). From Participation to Generation of Virtual Art History Experiences [Conference presentation]. Serious Play: FATE 2023 Conference, Denver Colorado.

  • Gilby, D. (2022, October 7-8). Virtual Reality in the Art History Foundations Classroom: Two Case Studies [Conference presentation]. iED Immersive Summit, Lucerne, Switzerland.

Publications

  • Gilby, D. (2021). Weaving the Body Politic: The Role of Textile Production in Athenian Democracy as Expressed by the Function of and Imagery on the Éπίνητρον. Athens Journal of History, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 185-202.

  • Gilby, D. (2016). Greek Vases, Iberian Places: Visual Literacy and Interpretation in Hispania. In M. Heitkemper-Yates, & K. Kaczmarczyk (Eds.), Learning to See: The Meanings, Modes and Methods of Visual Literacy (pp. 169-189). Leiden: Brill. 

  • D. Bauschke, & D. Gilby (Eds.) (2014). Forces of the Erotic: Past and Present Transgressions, Transformations and Bliss. Oxford: The Interdisciplinary Press.

  • Gilby, D. (March 2009). Head Trip: Head of a Young Child (Me.676), Childhood, and Gender on Late Cypro-Classical Cyprus. Focus on the Mediterranean 5, 129-136.

  • Gilby, D. (2002). The (Ethne)Gynographic Gaze: The Black Female on Display in Ancient Cypriot Art. In Diane Bolger and Nancy Serwint (Eds.), Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus (pp. 223-234). Boston, MA: American Schools of Oriental Research Monograph Series, CAARI Monographs volume 3.