Glenda Swan, Ph.D.
Professor of Art | Art History & Perspectives
- Ph.D. Doctor of Philosophy, Classical Art and Archaeology 鈥� Program in the Ancient World
Princeton University - Master of Arts Classical Art and Archaeology 鈥� Program in the Ancient World
Princeton University - Bachelor of Arts Classical Archaeology and Anthropology
University of Texas - Austin
Glenda Swan serves as a Professor of Art & Design in Art History at VSU. She earned her B.A. Classical Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. She continued her studies at Princeton University, where she earned her M.A. and PhD in Classical Art and Archaeology. In 2008, she earned a National Endowment Humanities Grant to participate in the Summer Seminar at the American Academy in Rome.
Glenda has an established publication record in Roman art history as well as pedagogy. She has published on “Hercules Cleaning the Augean Stables on a Roman Bronze Plaque” for the 2010 Record of the Art Museum Princeton University 2010. She has written on “Building a Foundation for Survey: Employing a Focused Introduction” for the Spring 2016 issue of Art History Pedagogy & Practice. “Monstrous Allure: Polyphemus in Pompeii” was included in the December 2017 issue of Art Inquiries. She contributed two chapters to Lavonna Lovern’s Fostering a Climate of Inclusion in the College Classroom: The Missing Voice of the Humanities in 2018 with Palgrave Macmillan. She wrote a monograph in 2023 on Re-Envisioning the Material Past: How to Educate and Engage Modern Students Using Visual Culture with Palgrave Macmillan.
Publications
2024
- Materials to Support Their Own Learning” at the 2024 USG Teaching & Learning Conference.
- Presented paper on “Analyzing Cultures, Both Past and Present: Art Historical Research as Investigative Reporting” at the 2024 SECAC Conference.
2023
- Published book Re-Envisioning the Material Past: How to Educate and Engage Modern Students Using Visual Culture(2023) with Palgrave Macmillan.
- Presented paper on “A Return to the Basics: Refocusing on Student Needs Post-COVID” at the 2023 SECAC Conference.
- Presented paper on “Teaching Students to Look with an Anthropological Eye at Ancient Material Culture” at the 2023 Southern Anthropological Society.
- Presented paper on “Making Students Teach to the Test: Having Students Design