As a specialist in modern European art history, Dr. Eleanor Moseman focuses on Central European avant-garde movements. Her research examines the intersections of modernism, cultural dynamics, and the socio-political functions of art. She has published on 20th-century art and literature from German-speaking regions, including studies of Czech Cubism, German Expressionism, and Surrealism in Germany. Her work has appeared in edited collections and scholarly journals such as the Art Bulletin, Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ARS (Bratislava), Umění (Prague), and Feminist German Studies.

Currently, Dr. Moseman is writing a book on German writer and abstract artist Ellida Schargo von Alten’s Surrealist practices in the context of postwar recovery from totalitarianism. She recently completed a series of essays investigating Bohumil Kubišta’s socially engaged art and art theory and is preparing an article on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s late abstract work in relation to Coptic art and Eyptomania in popular culture. Her curatorial projects at Colorado State University’s Gregory Allicar Museum of Art include an exhibition of Surrealist Richard Oelze’s drawings and the first retrospective of von Alten’s work in the U.S. Her research has been supported by the J. William Fulbright Program, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), CSU’s Lilla B. Morgan Foundation and the College of Liberal Arts.

Since joining the CSU faculty in 2006, Dr. Moseman has cultivated a teaching practice that bridges historical inquiry with contemporary relevance and global perspectives. As a strong supporter of the university’s Land Grant mission to expand access to education and foster public engagement, her courses foreground critical inquiry of visual art in relation to social conditions. She teaches a range of classes on 19th- and 20th-century European art, as well as topical seminars including Expressionism, Women in Art History, Portraiture, and Land/scape in Art. In CSU’s foundational art history sequence, she guides students through a comprehensive global survey of artistic production from prehistory to the present, equipping them with tools for visual literacy, cultural understanding, and intellectual curiosity.

Dr. Moseman’s pedagogy is shaped by extensive field and research experience abroad, including archaeological excavations in Anatolia and the Levant, site-specific work in Europe, and extended study and research residencies in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, the Czech Republic, and Italy. She has taught internationally with Semester at Sea and leads summer field programs, including a study abroad course on art and aesthetics in Japan. In Fall 2026, Dr. Moseman will serve as Academic Dean for Semester at Sea, leading faculty and students on a global comparative voyage of discovery spanning four continents.