Jennie Hirsh received her Ph.D. in December 2003 from the Department of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College, where she wrote a dissertation on pictorial and literary self-representation in the oeuvre of the Greek-born Italian artist Giorgio de Chirico. She also holds an MA in Italian Renaissance Art from Bryn Mawr, an MA in Italian from Middlebury College, and a BA in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. From 2003-2005, she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Architecture at Oberlin College. Prior to that appointment, she taught adjunct courses on modern and contemporary art, the history of Western Art, Italian Renaissance art and architecture, postwar Italian cinema, and Italian language at the University of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr College, Moore College of Art & Design, and Temple University.  [Last Updated 2006]