Personal

 

Van Mechelen (Ph.D.), Marga Klasina  

Home address:
Pels Rijckenstraat 6
6814 DL Arnhem              
The Netherlands
Tel. +31 26 4421361
e-mail:
M.K.vanMechelen@uva.nl

Office:
University of Amsterdam
Art, Religion and Cultural Sciences
Herengracht 286
1016 BX Amsterdam
fax: 020 5253020 / 5253023

Place of birth: Meppel, The Netherlands
Date of birth: 24 April 1953
Nationality: Dutch

 

Profession:

1980-      
Senior lecturer at the University of Amsterdam/ Faculty of Humanities/Art, Religion and Cultural Studies department/ Modern Art

1998        

Visiting lecturer University of Sao Paulo, Faculty of Art and Communication Studies.

1978-1980

Lecturer in Art History Utrecht (SOL)

1977        

Lecturer in Art History at the Catholic University of Nijmegen

 

Education:

1993        

Ph.D. University of Amsterdam - dissertation: Form and Signifying Process. Art History, Semiotics, Semanalysis, Nijmegen (SUN); promoter: prof. Dr. P.W.M. de Meijer.

1976-1979     

Master in Art History at the University of Groningen (tutors: prof. Dr. H.W. van Os and prof. Dr. W. Beeren) - thesis:  Language as Art – Art as Language. A Study on the Journals Art-Language and The Fox

1974-1977

Philosophy of Language at the Catholic University of Nijmegen (tutor: prof. Dr. P.A.M. Seuren)

1972-1976

Bachelor in Art History at the Catholic University of Nijmegen

 

Administrative activities:

2002-  

                   Member of the committee Visual Arts Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds

2000-

Member of the International Scientific Board of de International Association for Visual Semiotics

1999-

Member of the Board of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Semiotic Studies (IASS/AIS)

1993-2001

Member of the Executive Committee Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (lectures, symposia)

1981-1994

Advisory committee Museum of Modern Art Arnhem

1994-1997

Member of the Board of the Dutch Association for Semiotics