Victoria H. F. Scott Ph.D.

Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
Location: 318 West Wilson Hall
Phone: 248-370-3388
Email: vscott1@oakland.edu

Victoria H. F. Scott, Ph.D., specializes in art and architecture after 1945, with a focus on the global influence of Maoism. She co-edited “Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution” (Manchester, 2019), and her manuscript “Maoism, the French Posters of 1968 and the Secret History of Postmodernism” is under contract with De Gruyter Brill. Currently she is working on a project examining Augustinian architecture in the early Renaissance as type and model.

Education
Ph.D., Art History, SUNY Binghamton, New York
MA, Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
BA, Honors Art History, University of British Columbia, Vancouver 

Teaching Experience
CLIL Art History Instructor, E. Q. Visconti, Rome, Spring 2025
English Instructor, Liceo Augusto, Rome, Spring 2025
Communications Instructor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Fall 2026
German Instructor, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2015-2016
Theodore Randall International Chair in Art and Design, Alfred University, Spring 2014
Instructor of Art History, Emory University, Georgia, 2011-2012
Visiting Assistant Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2010-2011
Visiting Assistant Professor, Binghamton University, New York, Spring 2010
Visiting Instructor, Alfred University, New York, Spring 2010
Visiting Instructor, The College of William & Mary, Virginia, 2008-2009
Teaching Assistant, Binghamton University, New York Spring, 2006–2007

Curatorial Experience
The Antonio Ratti Foundation, Como-Milan CECAC European course for contemporary art curators, Fall 2007
Dallas Museum of Art, McDermott Graduate Curatorial Intern, 2005–2006
Curatorial and Publications Intern, Hirschhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Spring 2004

Monographs and Editorial work

Saint Augustine’s Geometry of Grace: North African Numerical Traditions and the Aesthetics of Renaissance Architecture (in progress).

Dead Reckoning: Marxism and Corruption in Art and Architectural History (in progress).

Maoism, the French Posters of 1968 and the Secret History of Postmodernism (Forthcoming, De Gruyter Brill).

Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Editor with Jacopo Galimberti and Noemi de Haro-García. Manchester: Manchester University Press (2019).

Nonsite.org #9 The Labor Issue, Editor (May 2013).

Peer Reviewed Articles/Chapters

“Reproducibility, Propaganda and the Chinese Origins of Neoliberal Aesthetics.” Art, Global Maoism and the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Manchester: Manchester University Press (2019).

With Daniel Burckhardt. “The Republic of Art History: Using Gender and Network Analysis to Reinvent the Discipline.” The Newest Art History. Vienna: The Austrian Association of Art Historians. Open-Access Online Publication (October 2017). http://voekk.at/index.php?nav=publikationen&gruppe=tagungsbaende&artikel=10822

With Daniel Burckhardt. “Comparing Disciplinary Patterns: Gender and Social Network Analysis Using Academic Listservs.” Leonardo Journal MIT-Press e-book, conference proceedings of the AHCN2015 symposium. Leonardo/ISAST and MIT Press; 5th edition (2016).

“Academic Freedoms and the Ideology of the Internet: On the Significance of Art, Art History and Privacy in the age of the Neoliberal University.” Ethos: A Digital Review of Arts, Humanities, and Public Ethics (October 2014).

“The Art History Guild.” The Art History Supplement 3, 2 (March 2013).

“Art and Culture as Site of Contestation: The French Reception of the Frankfurt School.” Conference proceedings: Comité Internationale d’Histoire de l’Art (2012).

“Le Carré Blanc: Censorship and the Posters of May and June 1968.” Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, Censorship, Rewriting, Restoration 2 (2010).

“Les archives d’art contemporain. Perspective : la revue de l’INHA : Actualités de la recherche en l’histoire de l’art – XIXe siècle – XXe – XXIe siècle (2008).

“Contemporary Art Archives in Milan and Everywhere Else.” Stripes white and green: notes on the missing archive, CECAC 2007. Milan-Como: Antonio Ratti Foundation (2008).

Reviews, Talks and Museum Brochures

“New English Language Monographs on Postwar Art in France and the Secret History of Postmodernism,” 21: Inquiries into Art, History, and the Visual (April 2023).

“Maoïsme et les affiches françaises de 1968 : l’importance de l’Allemagne de l’Est et l’Ouest.” Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris (November, 2022).

“Mexico and American Modernism by Ellen G. Landau.” Southern California Quarterly 96, 1 (Spring 2014).

“Richard Diebenkorn in New Mexico: every imaginable shade of yellow.” The Financial Times, Life & Arts, Saturday February 23, 2008.

“Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla.” With Suzanne Weaver in conjunction with the exhibition of two video-sound installations: Under Discussion (2004) and Amphibious (Login-Logout) (2005). Brochure. Dallas Museum of Art, 2006.

“James Brooks at the Dallas Museum of Art: A Celebration.” In conjunction with the exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. Brochure. Dallas Museum of Art, 2006.

Websites
Editor and designer University Art Museums and Galleries in Virginia (2011).
Co-founder and designer (of the original website), European Postwar and Contemporary Art Forum (2010–2015).

Lectures

Spring 2024
Columbia University, New York
Architecture/Art History PhD Forum
Departments of Art History and Archaeology and Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Maoism, the French Posters of 1968 and the Secret History of Postmodernism 

October 2015
University of Illinois Chicago
Keynote: The Art History Guild Strikes Back!

April 2014
Alfred University, Alfred, New York
Academic Freedoms and the Ideology of the Internet: on the Significance of
Art, Art History and Privacy in the age of the Neoliberal University.

Selected Conferences

2025
“Accounting for Greatness: The Case for Statistics About Women in Art History”
Women Critics and Art Historians
Università di Macerata, Università di Genova, University of Arkansas Rome
Program, Musei Civici di Roma

2017
“Spies in the Academy: Academic Freedom and Art History Post 9/11.”
Geschichte(n) in den Künsten nach dem Ende d. Kalten Krieges
European Centre of Art, Design and Media-Based Research at the Academy of Design and Art, HGK Basel, Switzerland

2015
“The Republic of Art History: Using Gender and Social Network Analysis to Reinvent the Discipline.” With Daniel Burckhardt, for the panel: “The Newest Art History” 18th Conference of the Austrian Society of Art Historians, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Vienna

2014
“Maoism and the Origins of Neoliberal Aesthetics.”
Co-Chair and presenter with Noemi de Haro-García and Jacopo Galimberti. Maoist art in Europe, Forum Ostasiatische Kunstgeschichte
Heidelberg University, Germany