College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor of Art History
Phone: (239)590-7427
E-Mail: mmcshane@fgcu.edu
Office: MOD 1 - #31

Megan C. McShane is Assistant Professor of Art History at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers, Florida. Her dissertation, Exquisite Corpse: The Practice of Surrealist Collective Drawing, 1925-1941, received the President’s Award for Writing on Women’s Issues at Emory University in 2004 upon graduation. Her research interests include French art of the inter-war period, art and ecology, as well as art and technology and New Media. While at Emory, she held a fellowship in the Violence Studies Program, where she developed courses on the Visual Rhetoric of Violence. She has been a Center for Advanced Studies Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In her current teaching post at FGCU, she is working with The Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, to further her work on the art and ecology movement, which is informed by conceptions of time as interrelated with technology. She has taught African Art at Spelman College and is currently engaged in analyzing pedagogical issues in Contemporary South African contemporary art. She recently spent a year in China as the first Modern Art Historian to be officially accepted by the People’s Republic of China and the Ministry of Education to propagate Avant-Garde art history and methodology. Her Fulbright was endowed by the Luce Foundation. She was posted at Sun Yat-Sen University in the Department of History in Guangzhou. While in Guangzhou she studied New Media art and the democratization of digital video productions in China. She has exported Chinese Contemporary video art to the Munich Film Museum and the Hirshorn Museum at the Smithsonian.