School of Humanities

School of Humanities

dr emily sitziaDr Emilie Sitzia

 

Position

Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory
Honours and Postgraduate Diploma Co-ordinator

Qualifications

MA in French Literature (Paris/France),
MA in Art History (Paris/France),
PhD (Turku/Finland)

Room

Room 407, level 4, History building

Contact Details

Phone: +64 3 366 7001
Internal Phone: 8164
Email: emilie.sitzia@canterbury.ac.nz
2011 Office hours: Wednesday 11am -1pm

Postal address:
School of Humanities
University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch
New Zealand

Undergraduate Courses

  • ARTH 103 Issues in Twentieth Century Art
  • ARTH 202 Art in the Age of Revolution
  • ARTH 323 Challenging traditions: Painting in France 1830 - 1900

Graduate Courses

  • ARTH 406 Art and Literature in 19th Century France

For up-to-date details of Emilie Sitzia's research interests and publications, please visit her UC Research Profile.

Research

  • 19th - 20th European Art (especially 19th century French Art)
  • European Art literature (art novels, art criticism and artist's texts)
Dr Emilie Sitzia is researching a range of interdisciplinary topics linking literature and art in 19th-century France. Topics include writer’s portraits, literary subjects in painting, painter’s writings and the art novel.

School Administration

Books

L’artiste entre mythe et réalité dans trois œuvres de Balzac, Goncourt et
Zola, Åbo Akademi University Press, Finland, 2004.

Chapters in books

"A toutes les heures, par tous les temps: Impressionist landscape and
capturing time" in Jan Lloyd Jones et al, eds, Art and Time, Australian
Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, 2007.

Articles in journals

  • “Sarah Bernhardt-Mucha: La creation d’une deesse de la decadence” in Image and Narrative, 2007

  • " Peindre l’absence : Manet et le couple absent, Echo, December 2005

Background

Educated in France, Germany and Finland. Joined the University of Canterbury in 2004.