Research Statement:

My work addresses representations of the body in French culture of the seventeenth- and eighteenth centuries. I consider the interrelationships among painting, prints, architecture, dance and other forms of physical performance in their construction of bodily style and meaning. The monuments I study include the palace and gardens at Versailles and at Vaux-le-Vicomte, the paintings of Watteau, and costume and stage drawings for the French court ballet.

Education:

PhD, 1988, Yale University; M.A., 1982, Yale University; B.A., 1979, Oberlin College

Selected Publications:

Art, Dance, and the Body in French Culture of the Ancien Regime, New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000; 352 pp.

"Masquerade as Mode in the French Fashion Print," in Jessica Munns, and Penny Richards eds., The Clothes That Wear Us: Essays on Dressing and Transgressing in Eighteenth-Century Culture, University of Delaware Press and United University Presses, 1999, pp. 174-207

"Body as 'Character' in Early Eighteenth-Century French Art and Performance," The Art Bulletin, 78:3, Sept. 1996, 454-66

"Un Bal continuel: Watteau's Cythera Paintings and Aristocratic Dancing in the 1710s," Art History, 17, June 1994, 156-77

Selected Awards and Grants:

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1997
Faculty Research Awards, University at Albany, 1994-95, 1993-94, 1998-99
NYS United University Professions Faculty Development Award, 1993
Colby College Humanities Research Grant, 1989
Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, 1987-88
Mary Davis Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, 1984-86
Awarded Distinction, PhD Oral Examinations, 1984
Johnston Alumni Fellowship, Oberlin College, 1982

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