Michelle Kaiserlian
Teaching Experience
2015-present Adjunct Professor, Departments of Art and of Visual Communication, Austin Community College, Austin, TX
2010-15 Adjunct Associate Professor, Departments of Art and of Visual Communication, Austin Community College, Austin, TX
2010 Part-Time Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
2005 Instructor, Department of the History of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
2003 Teaching Assistant, Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Professional Publications
“The Imagined Elites of the Omar Khayyám Club.” InFitzGerald’s Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Popularity and Neglect. London: Anthem Press, 2011.
Review of The Art of Omar Khayyam: Illustrating Fitzgerald’s Rubáiyát, by William H. Martin and Sandra Mason. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America 102:4 (December 2008): 537-39.
“Omar Sells: American Advertisements Based onthe Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, c. 1910-20.” Early Popular Visual Culture 6:3 (November 2008): 257-269.
“Omar and the Consumer Market.” Informatebulletin Omariana 7:2 (Nov. 2007): 1-2. Online bulletin of the Nederlands Omar Khayyam Genootschap, at www.omarkhayyamnederland.com.
Speaking Engagements
2011 Popular Culture Association–American Culture Association 41st Annual Conference (San Antonio, TX)
Paper: “Rubáiyát-itis: Compulsive Collecting and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám in America, c. 1900-1915"
Nineteenth Century Studies Association 32nd Annual Conference (Albuquerque, NM)
Association of Historians of Nineteenth Century Art Panel
Paper: “From Vice to Virtue? Gambling and the Making of the Modern Creative in the Poker Rubáiyát”
2009 Conference: Omar Khayyám, Edward Fitzgerald, and the Rubáiyát (Universiteit Leiden, the Netherlands, and
University of Cambridge, UK)
Paper: “The Imagined Elites of the Omar Khayyám Club” (Cambridge)
2009 Invited Lecturer, Phoenix Art Museum (Phoenix, AZ)
Lecture in conjunction with traveling exhibition, Elihu Vedder’s Drawings for the Rubáiyát (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Paper: “The Remarkable Legacy of Vedder’s Rubáiyát”
2007 Conference: Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th-Century Book in Britain, France, and Beyond (New York, NY) and
2006 Midwest Modern Language Association 48th Annual Convention (Chicago, IL)
Paper: “From High to Low: the Dissemination of the Illustrated Rubáiyát in Great Britain and the United States”
2006 Midwest Conference on British Studies 2006 (Indianapolis, IN) and Western Conference on
British Studies (Dallas, TX)
Paper: “Coping with Modernity: the Omar Cure-all”
2006 Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States 11th Annual
Conference (Malibu, CA)
Paper: “A Syncretic Vision at the Close of the Victorian Age: Phoebe Anna Traquair’s Progress of a Soul”
2005 Indiana University English Department Conference: Intimacy/Proximity
Paper: “‘Drink the Wine That Moves You’: The Fluidity of Divine Union in the Writings of Marguerite Porête and Jelaluddin Rumi”
Fellowships, Honors, and Grants
2016 Innovation Grant, Instructional Development Services, Austin Community College
2013 Conference Travel Grant, Arts and Humanities Division, Austin Community College
2012 Curriculum Development Grant, Department of Art, Austin Community College
2011 Conference Travel Grant, Arts and Humanities Division, Austin Community College
2009, 2007 Conference Travel Grant, Friends of Art Fellowship Fund, Indiana University
2007-2008 Visiting Scholar, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
2007 Research Grant, Louis Hawes Fellowship Fund, Indiana University
2006-2007 Dissertation Fellowship, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin
2006 Walter L. Arnstein Award, Midwest Conference on British Studies
2006 Newberry Library Short-Term Fellowship for Individual Research, Chicago, IL
Published: August 22, 2024