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Pomona College Prof. Arden Reed Receives Guggenheim
Fellowship
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Arden Reed, the Arthur M. Dole and Fanny M. Dole Professor
of English at Pomona College, has received a John Simon
Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, for $38,000. The
prestigious Fellowships are awarded to those who have
demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship
or exceptional creative ability in the arts and show
exceptional promise for future accomplishment.
 What distinguishes the Guggenheim Fellowship program is the
diversity of fellows selected from in 78 different fields,
from the natural sciences to the creative arts. Past Fellows
include scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prize winners.
Among them are Ansel Adams, Aaron Copland, Martha Graham,
Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu
Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy
Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson, and Eudora Welty.
Reed, whose recent research has focused on issues relating
to art and attentiveness, will use the grant to pursue his
research on tableaux vivants, the old parlor game in
which participants imitate famous works of art. In Southern
California, Laguna’s annual Pageant of the Masters is the
most well-known.
“The ultimate stakes of my study,” explains Reed, “are the
matters of concentration, distraction and attentiveness… My
[early] research has led to the surprising discovery that
the great age of tableaux vivants is not the 19th century as
scholars have assumed, but right now. So why, my study asks,
are we fascinated to watch people stand still? And what
larger cultural implications might this seemingly marginal
art form hold? Tableaux vivants turn out to be an unlikely
but efficient way to raise the deep questions that animate
the book I am preparing, Slow Art: From Tableaux Vivants
to James Turrell. The fellowship will allow him to
conduct research in Paris, London, Berlin, New York,
Flagstaff and Vancouver.
Reed’s expertise ranges from English romantic literature and
19th century French culture to contemporary art and
image/text relations. He is the author of Constance
DeJong: Metal (University of New Mexico Press, 2003) and
Manet, Flaubert, and the Emergence of Modernism
(The New Art History Series edition, Cambridge University
Press, 2003) as well as numerous articles in professional
journals.
A member of the Pomona College faculty since 1979, Reed
teaches the courses Literature of the Romantic Period;
Nature of Narrative in Fiction and Film; Reading Images;
Queer Theories, Gay Fictions; Wordsworth & Proust: Advanced
Seminar; and the art history course Manet, Degas, Cezanne.
He earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University and his
B.A. from Wesleyan University. |
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