Denise-Marie Teece

Denise-Marie Teece is Assistant Professor of Art History at New York University in Abu Dhabi. She earlier taught coursework at New York University in New York City. Prior to joining NYUAD, she served in a curatorial capacity for nine years at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in the Department of Islamic Art. She also held curatorial and research positions in the Asian Art Departments at the Brooklyn Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and served as a curatorial consultant to the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto. She also was a stagiaire at the Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Bruxelles. She was awarded her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Her wide-ranging research interests include: transregional artistic exchange, the history of collection and display, technical art history, carpets and textiles of the Islamic world, and Persian manuscript production. Her research has been published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Yale University Press, the Harvard/MIT/Brill journal Muqarnas (in 2019 & 2024), the Brill ‘Intersections’ series, Ars Orientalis (Freer Gallery of Art / University of Michigan), George Washington University/The Textile Museum Journal, Routledge, The British Library,  and on the 'Khamseen' educational resource site, among others.

Her current projects include a study of the Gulf and Indian Ocean World / Maritime Asia exchange networks, based on her Master’s thesis completed at the IFA/NYU. Focused on the movement of Chinese porcelains, this study will form part of a larger monograph in progress, and the basis of two recent/forthcoming articles. Working together with the students of her 'Gulf and Indian Ocean World Art and Architecture' and ‘Silk Roads, Sea Routes, and Shared Heritage’ courses, she is developing an open access resource website / online exhibition space on this same theme at: almusafir.org.  She also continues her work on the topic of Persian anthological manuscripts - the subject of her dissertation. An essay concerning Persian poetry anthologies and their terminologies recently has appeared in a Routledge publication concerning Persian literature.

Her current course offerings at NYUAD include: ‘Collecting,’ ‘Silk Roads, Sea Routes, and Shared Heritage,’ ‘Gulf and Indian Ocean World Art and Architecture,’ and ‘Art and Architecture of the Islamic World.’ In the Spring of 2024, she taught 'Thinking Art," an advanced art history theory course. And, she has recently proposed a new course, with the working title of: 'Global Art + Science: Geometries, Ecologies, Technologies' for Spring 2025.
Phone: Abu Dhabi 971 (0)50 205 1591