19th-century European and American art, French-American cross-cultural studies, reception theory, social history of art

Research:
French and American cultural cross-currents in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Social history, genre painting and popular images of labor, history of caricature and political cartoons, working-class audiences and nineteenth-century art, reader-response and reception theory.

Teaching:
ART H 270 Mapping America
ART H 360 Painting Nineteenth-Century America
ART H 362 Impressionism in Society
ART H 461 Art and Social Histories
Topics: Landscape as Ideology
American Art and the Machine
The Long Nineteenth Century
Caricature, Political Cartoons, and Laughter

Books:
French Realist Painting and the Critique of American Society, 1865-1900. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
recipient: Gilbert Chinard Prize, 1995
one of Choice's Outstanding Books, 1996

Selected Articles:
"'The Best of Democracy': Walt Whitman, Jean-Francois Millet, and Popular Culture in Post-Civil War America," Walt Whitman and the Visual Arts, eds. G. Sill and R.K. Tarbell, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1992, pp.28-52.

"Popular Criticism of Jean-Francois Millet in Nineteenth-Century America," Art Bulletin 65 (March 1983): 94-105.

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