John Rhodes is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Art at Wellesley College. A specialist
in Western art and architecture from the 18th through the 20th centuries,
he has taught a wide variety of courses in these and other areas at Wellesley,
including the history of landscape design, theories of ornament, and art-historical
methodology. Within Wellesley's "First-Year Cluster" program, he
taught courses on themes of gender, sexuality, and the body. He regularly
lectures in the introductory art history survey and teaches sections in the
required first-year writing course.
He received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard.
At Wellesley since 1982, he also has taught at Williams, Boston, and Trinity
Colleges. He has published work on avant-garde aesthetics, American architecture,
and the history of modernism. He is co-author, with Art Department colleagues
Peter Fergusson and James O'Gorman, of The
Landscape and Architecture of Wellesley College.
He lives in an old house in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he gardens
avidly.
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Profile last updated: 8/09