Donna Cassidy, PhD

Donna Cassidy taught in both the Art Department and the American & New England Studies Program. Over her career at USM, she taught a range of courses on 19^th and 20^th century European art, gender and modern art, and the visual culture of the United States. She has published widely on modernism and regionalism in early 20^th century American art. She is the author of Painting the Musical City: Jazz and Cultural Identity in American Art, 1910-1940 (1997) and Marsden Hartley: Race, Region, and Nation (2005), and co-author (with Elizabeth Finch and Randall R. Griffey) of Marsden Hartley’s Maine (2017), the catalogue of the exhibition of the same name which she co-curated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Colby College Museum of Art. She is now focused on two research projects: she is Guest Curator for a 2023 exhibition at the Ogunquit Museum of American Art—Shifting Sands: Beaches, Bathers and Modern Maine Art—, and she is working on a new book—Looking North: U.S. Artists in Quebec and Atlantic Canada 1890-1940—which examines an unexplored region of artistic interest for early 20^th century American artists.