Rate My Professor Nathan Timpano

Nathan Timpano serves as Associate Professor of Art History, Chair of the Department of Art & Art History, and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Miami, having joined the department in 2010. His prior roles include Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums/Harvard University, where he developed an online exhibition and comprehensive database of photographic works by Lyonel Feininger, and positions at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. He continues as faculty guest curator at the University of Miami Lowe Art Museum, contributing to exhibitions such as Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States in 2013.

His research examines the histories and theories of modern art and visual culture in Europe and the Americas during the long nineteenth century (1789-1945), with a specialty in German and Austrian symbolism and expressionism. Timpano offers courses on 19th- and 20th-century European art, from Neoclassicism to surrealism in Europe and Latin America. His acclaimed monograph, Constructing the Viennese Modern Body: Art, Hysteria, and the Puppet (Routledge, 2017; paperback 2020), explores the pathological and puppet-like body in Viennese modernism through works by Oskar Kokoschka, Egon Schiele, and others. Recent publications feature “Illustrating Illicit Miscegenation: Max Fröhlich’s The Honeymoon (1907)” (Source: Notes in the History of Art, 2024), “Erasing 'Jewish Traces': Max Oppenheimer and the Crux of Art Historiography” (Routledge, 2022), and “On Not Seeing or Feeling: Embodying Disability in Viennese Modern Art” (Routledge, 2021). Timpano has earned prestigious fellowships, including the US Fulbright to Austria (2007-2008), DAAD in Germany (2007), Getty Research Institute (2015), Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2019), Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies at LACMA (2013 and 2022), and Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2024). He is editing a volume on Swedish women modernists and authoring a study on uncanny dolls in German modern and contemporary art, cinema, and dance.