Dr. Gilby is the Walter J. Manninen Endowed Chair for Art History. She holds PhD and Master’s degrees in Art History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Bachelor’s degree from St. Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri. Her research areas identity formation in ancient Greece and Rome, the use of classical myth within contemporary art, the representation of the artist in major studio films, and the employment of art within the Hollywood action genre.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master's and PhD
Art History
1996
ART101 Visual Art and Cultural Values I: Prehistory to c. 1310
ART102 Visual Art and Cultural Values II: Fourteenth Century to the Present
ART238 Modern and Postmodern Art: From the 1870s through the 1970s
ART322 Contemporary Art in a Global Context
Kress Foundation CIC Summer Art History Seminar, 2014, Teaching Premodern Art of Europe—The Uses of Antiquity, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute, 2003, Native American Art and Literature in Historical and Cultural Context, The Evergreen State College (Gail Tremblay, Director), Olympia, WA.
Margaret Davidson Schorger Fellowship, 1993-1994, University of Wisconsin-Madison to study at the American School of Classical Studies, Athens.
Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1987.
Magna cum laude, St. Louis University, 1987.
Gilby, D. (2024, November 13-15).聽Gamifying Art History鈥揢sing Hidden Object Rooms to Advance Knowledge of Art鈥檚 Contexts and Meanings [Conference presentation]. 6th聽World Congress on Education, Singapore.
Gilby, D. (2024, May 24-26).聽Mourning in the Optative Mood: The Case of the Eleusis Amphora聽[Conference presentation]. 19th聽Annual Arts in Society Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
Gilby, D. (2023, June 5-8).聽Classical Myth, Renaissance Interpretation, and Contemporary Art: Women Artists and Botticelli鈥檚聽Birth of Venus聽[Conference presentation].聽ATINER 14th聽International Conference on the Visual and Performing Arts, Athens, Greece.
Gilby, D. (2023, April 12-15). From Participation to Generation of Virtual Art History Experiences [Conference presentation]. Serious Play: FATE 2023 Conference, Denver Colorado.
Gilby, D. (2022, October 7-8).聽Virtual Reality in the Art History Foundations Classroom: Two Case Studies聽[Conference presentation]. iED Immersive Summit, Lucerne, Switzerland.
Gilby, D. (2021). Weaving the Body Politic: The Role of Textile Production in Athenian Democracy as Expressed by the Function of and Imagery on the Éπ委νητρον. Athens Journal of History, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 185-202.
Gilby, D. (2016). Greek Vases, Iberian Places: Visual Literacy and Interpretation in Hispania. In M. Heitkemper-Yates, & K. Kaczmarczyk (Eds.), Learning to See: The Meanings, Modes and Methods of Visual Literacy (pp. 169-189). Leiden: Brill.
D. Bauschke, & D. Gilby (Eds.) (2014). Forces of the Erotic: Past and Present Transgressions, Transformations and Bliss. Oxford: The Interdisciplinary Press.
Gilby, D. (March 2009). Head Trip: Head of a Young Child (Me.676), Childhood, and Gender on Late Cypro-Classical Cyprus. Focus on the Mediterranean 5, 129-136.
Gilby, D. (2002). The (Ethne)Gynographic Gaze: The Black Female on Display in Ancient Cypriot Art. In Diane Bolger and Nancy Serwint (Eds.), Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus (pp. 223-234). Boston, MA: American Schools of Oriental Research Monograph Series, CAARI Monographs volume 3.