John Rhodes

John Rhodes is 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.

Profile last updated: 8/05