Susan Laikin Funkenstein is Associate Professor of Art History in the Art Department. A specialist in Modern Art, she focuses on intersections of art history, dance history, and gendered identity in German art of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933). She is currently at work on a book length study of images of male and female dancers in Weimar visual culture. On a more theoretical level, she is interested in how modernist criticism's delineations of "high art" and "popular culture" can be redefined in order to reevaluate the relationships between traditional art and mass culture, craft, and decoration.

Education:
B.A. Columbia University, 1992
M.A. University of Chicago, 1994
Ph.D. UW-Madison, Wisconsin, 2001

UW-Parkside Classes:
Art Appreciation, Ancient and Medieval Art, Renaissance to Modern Art, Modern Art, From Pop Art to Now, History of Design, Modern European Art, Modern American Art, Gender in Modern European Visual Culture, Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre.