Marissa Vigneault
Art History
Associate Professor
Contact Information
Office Hours: By appointmentOffice Location: FAV 144
Phone: 435-797-3460
Email: marissa.vigneault@usu.edu
Additional Information:
Educational Background
Ph.D. History of Art (2009), Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
M.A. Art History (2002), American University, Washington, D.C.
B.A. Art (1999), Hood College, Frederick, Maryland
Biography
Dr. Marissa Vigneault is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Director (Interim) of the Center for Intersectional Gender Studies and Research in the College of Arts & Sciences at Utah State University. Her widely published research examines the ongoing influence of feminist politics on artistic production and the role of technology, from the introduction of personal video cameras in the 1960s to contemporary social media apps, in shaping and affirming one’s gender and sexuality via visual representation. From 2019-2020, Dr. Vigneault was an Andrew W. Mellon Senior Fellow in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, where she researched and wrote on the pioneering feminist artist Hannah Wilke (1940-1993) and the visual and material history of nineteenth and early twentieth-century American cigarette and tobacco insert cards depicting Vaudeville and burlesque “beauties.”
At USU, Dr. Vigneault teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in modern and contemporary art history and visual culture, with a focus on intersectional approaches to the creation and reception of works of art. As a scholar and a teacher, she is guided by the leadership actions of those working in and around the field of contemporary art: proactively pushing to transform inequitable institutional structures while enacting changes to center voices and practices historically omitted from the discourse.
Publications:
- “Selling Out: Art, Stripping, and Desire” in Sex on Stage: Performing the Body Politic, eds. Alison J. Carr and Lynn Sally (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), 35-48.
- Exhibition review of Pacita Abad, MoMA PS1. Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 10, no. 2 (Fall 2024).
- Review of Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake, eds. Tamara H. Schenkenberg and Donna Wingate. Woman’s Art Journal 45, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2024): 59-61.
- “Hannah Wilke’s Noh: Art, Feminism, and Pornography in the 1970s.” Archives of American Art Journal 63, n. 1 (Spring 2024).
- “Pos(t)ing Online, or Through the Glass for Looking.” Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art 9, no. 1 (Spring 2023).
- “Review of Lauren Fournier, Autotheory as Feminist Practice in Art, Writing, and Criticism (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2021). caa.reviews (2022).
- “Reading Hannah Wilke’s S.O.S. (Starification Object Series) in the Era of #MeToo” in Iconic Artworks by Feminists and Gender Activists: Mistress-Pieces, ed. Brenda Schmahmann (New York and London: Routledge, 2021), 87-101.