Faculty

Laura Auricchio

Chair of Humanities and Associate Professor

Ph.D., Columbia University

Laura Auricchio, an Associate Professor of Art History, specializes in French and American visual culture of the long eighteenth century (1660-1830) with an emphasis on women artists and the politics of art. Her first book Adélaïde Labille-Guiard: Artist in the Age of Revolution was published by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 2009 and supported by Fulbright and Whiting grants. A focus on gender and politics also marks her publications on contemporary art. Her peer-reviewed articles have appeared in The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, Eighteenth-Century Studies, and Genders, and she has written exhibition and book reviews for Art Papers, Time Out New York, and other publications.

Laura is currently completing three major projects. A book tentatively entitled The Marquis, in contract with Alfred A. Knopf, offers a visually-informed biography on the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero of the American Revolution. She is also co-editing a volume entitled Arboreal Values: Trees, Woods, and Forests in Europe and North America, 1660-1830, forthcoming from the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. She is also serving as exhibition adviser and primary catalog contributor for Royalists to Romantics: Women Artists from the Louvre, Versailles, and Other French National Collections, 1750-1850, opening at the National Museum for Women in the Arts in Washington, DC in 2012.