The Department of Art History and Theory is one of the two largest departments in Australia in terms of staff and undergraduate and graduate enrolment. Its research output is international in scope with a concentration on European and Australian art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Its research effort is led by Professors Spate and Smith, both of whom have ARC Large Grants. The research efforts of younger staff is exemplified by the grants held by Dr Milam. Distinguished international appointments include Professor Spate's Slade Professorship, at Cambridge University, those of Professor Smith at Duke University and the University of Pennsylvania and that of Dr Milam at Princeton.
Publications are particularly strong in the area of book chapters.
Modernism's Phallic Aesthetics. Dr Jennifer Milam Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, Sep.-Dec. The forum was a live cable video-linkup of speakers at UWS Macarthur with speakers at Cade 1997, the European Conference on Computers in Art and Design Education at the University of Derby, England. In the Beginning Will Have Been The End' at The 10th Society for Animation Studies Conference, Chapman University, Orange, California, August, 1998. Presented his invited paper, 'The Crypt, The Haunted House of Cinema', at the Cinema and the Senses International Film Conference, The University of NSW, 14-16 November, 1998.