Summer 2023
Professor Carso was delighted to speak at the “A.J. Davis Symposium: Rural Residences, etc.” at Locust Grove on June 16, 2023, an event sponsored by the Classical American Homes Preservation Trust.
Spring 2023
Professor Carso’s book Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture is the inspiration for the new issue of the UK publication Follies: The International Magazine! Her photo of Kingfisher Tower graces the cover, she has an essay on her folly research inside, her book is reviewed, and there are other shout-outs!
Summer 2021
Professor Carso’s book Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture has been published by Cornell University Press!
Spring 2021
Professor Carso’s essay “The Visual Culture of Commemorative Summerhouses in the Age of Revolutions” appears in the book The Art of Revolutions, published by the American Philosophical Society in 2021.
Fall 2020
Professor Carso’s exhibition review of Follies: Architectural Whimsy in the Garden at Winterthur and Mark Dion: Follies at the Storm King Art Center was published in Panorama: Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art in fall 2020. Here is a link:
Carso Panorama exhibition review of Follies
To coincide with the exhibition “Hudson Valley Artists 2020: New Folk,” Professor Carso participated on a panel at the Dorsky Museum with Anna Conlan, curator, and local artist Ryan Cronin, to talk about the history of the Hudson Valley as a place which draws artists and makers. The virtual event took place on Saturday, Oct. 3 at 2 pm. A recording of the panel discussion is available here:
Summer 2020
Professor Carso delivered three online lectures on the “Painters of the Hudson River School” at the Studios of Key West in July 2020.
Fall 2019 news
As of Fall 2019, Professor Carso is a Sustainability Faculty Fellow at SUNY New Paltz. For more information on the Sustainability Faculty Learning Community, please see:
Sustainability at SUNY New Paltz
Professor Carso presented a lecture, “The Hudson River School and the Roots of American Conservation,” to the Misericordia University Honors Program in Dallas, PA on Sept. 6, 2019.
Spring 2019 news
“Mohonk Mountain House at 150” is now open at the Dorksy Museum of Art! Curated by Professor Carso, with contributions from students in the fall 2018 course “Art of the Hudson Valley,” the exhibition will be open until July 14, 2019.
Fall 2018 news
Professor Carso wrote a short essay for the exhibition catalog Steven Holl: Making Architecture, published by the Dorsky Museum of Art.
Spring 2018 news
Professor Carso’s review of Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, The Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art by Philipp Schweighauser, appears in the new issue of Early American Literature, 53:1 (2018), 237-241.
Fall 2017 news
Professor Carso presented a paper, “The Visual Culture of Commemorative Summerhouses in the Age of Revolution,” at The Age of Revolutions conference at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia on Friday, Oct. 27. For more information:
Summer 2017 news
Professor Carso gave a talk entitled John James Audubon and The Birds of America: Nationalism and the Roots of Conservation in the Early Republic at the Desmond Campus of Mount Saint Mary College on Monday, August 14 at 1 pm.
Spring 2017 news
New publication! Professor Carso’s article, “Grant Wood, Walker Evans, and the Twentieth-Century After-Life of A. J. Downing’s Houses,” appears in the new issue of The Hudson River Valley Review, 33:2 (Spring 2017), 77-86. Link to Hudson River Valley Review 33:2
Fall 2016 news
New publication! Click here to read Professor Carso’s latest article, “Gothic Arches in America: Cooper’s Cave and Nineteenth-Century Tourism in Nature,” in Aeternum: The Journal of Contemporary Gothic Studies, 3:2 (Dec. 2016), 58-71.
Professor Carso gave a lecture on “John James Audubon and The Birds of America: Nationalism and the Roots of Conservation in the Early Republic” at SUNY Orange on Wed., Sept. 21, 2016 at 7 pm.
Professor Carso spoke at the 2016 Grant Wood Symposium at the University of Iowa on Saturday, Oct. 29 on “Grant Wood and the After-Life of Victorian Architecture.”
For more information:
On Oct. 12, Professor Carso presented a talk on Jervis McEntee at Mohonk Mountain House.
Spring/Summer 2016 news
Professor Carso was featured on “The Academic Minute: A WAMC National Production” on July 8, 2016 and spoke about the Gothic Revival. Listen at:
Professor Carso’s essay in the Jervis McEntee catalogue was reviewed in The Hudson River Valley Review’s spring 2016 issue:
Read the whole review starting on page 118 at:
Professor Carso presented “Jervis McEntee, the Pinchots, and the Hudson River School of Art” at the Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, PA on Saturday, July 16, 2016 at 5:30 pm.
Professor Carso was a guest on the “Know Your Watershed” radio show on WIOX community radio on Tuesday, May 31, 2016.
Fall 2015 news
Professor Carso will be making several presentations this fall in the Hudson Valley and New York City:
Sept. 13 at SUNY New Paltz: Professor Carso will participate in a panel on the nineteenth-century American landscape painter Jervis McEntee, in SUB62/63 at 2 pm.
Newspaper article about McEntee panel
Oct. 24 at Marist College: Professor Carso will present a paper at the “Worlds of Andrew Jackson Downing: A Bicentennial Celebration” symposium, sponsored by the Hudson River Valley Institute:
Interview with Professor Carso about AJ Downing
On Nov. 12 at 6:30 pm at the English Speaking Union in New York City, Professor Carso will discuss her book American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature (sponsored by the Victorian Society, Metro NY chapter).
On Dec. 5, Professor Carso will present a talk on Jervis McEntee at Mohonk Mountain House (more details to come).
Spring 2015 news
Professor Carso’s book American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature (University of Wales Press) has won the Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award from the Victorian Society in America. According to the Society, the award was “named to honor one of the early presidents of the Society in recognition of his significant contributions to architectural history, [and] shall be centered on architecture or the decorative arts but may include related topics, such as landscape, painting, interiors, biographies of designers or architects, museum or historic house exhibition catalogues.”
Hitchcock Award Announcement from University of Wales Press and Victorian Society in America.
Published! American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature (University of Wales Press) is now available!
Click here for the press release.
Professor Carso presented a paper on “Aging the Landscape: Ruins in America” at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association Conference on Material Cultures/Material Worlds in Boston, March 26-28, 2015.
Fall 2014 news
Professor Carso is now chair of the art history department of SUNY New Paltz.
Professor Carso has joined the board of directors of the Grey Towers Heritage Association, which assists the U. S. Forest Service in the wise use of Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, Pennsylvania. For more information, go to: http://www.greytowers.org/
Grey Towers National Historic Site in Milford, PA
Published in fall 2014! Professor Carso has co-edited with Thomas Wermuth an issue of The Hudson River Valley Review on “Painters, Writers, and Tourists in the Nineteenth Century.” She also contributed an essay to the volume.
As part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act of 1964, Professor Carso presented a lecture on “Landscapes of Nationalism and the Roots of Conservation in Nineteenth-Century America” at SUNY New Paltz on Monday, September 22 at 7 pm in Lecture Center 104.
Professor Carso has been named a 2014 “Scholar-In-Residence” at Grey Towers National Historic Site, the ancestral home of conservationist Gifford Pinchot, in Milford, Pennsylvania.
Spring 2014 news
Professor Carso presented a lecture, “John James Audubon and Birds of America: Nationalism and the Roots of Conservation in the Early Republic,” on Saturday, May 31 at 5:30 p.m., inside the historic mansion at Grey Towers National Historic Site, in Milford PA. Click on “Lecture on Audubon” in the links section of this page for more information.
Professor Carso participated in a roundtable discussion on “Landscape, History and the Hudson River in the Nineteenth Century” at the Conference on New York State History on Friday, June 13 at Marist College in Poughkeepsie.
Professor Carso presented a paper “Gardens of Nationalism: Commemorative Summerhouses in the Early Republic” at the Southern Humanities Council Conference in Richmond, VA, Jan. 29-Feb. 2, 2014. The topic of the conference was “Memories, Histories, Fantasies.”
Fall 2013 news
Professor Carso’s review of The Cultured Canvas: New Perspectives on American Landscape Painting, edited by Nancy Siegel, appears in a recent issue of The Hudson River Valley Review, vol. 30, no. 1 (Autumn 2013): 102-104.