Susan Siegfried

Professor of History of Art and Women's Studies Ph.D.,Harvard, History of Art

Contact Information:

110 Tappan Hall
519 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1357

734.763.0776
Email: siegfrie@umich.edu

Website:
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Scholarly Interests: Thematisation of gender, social spaces for viewing art, and theoretical models of interpretation.

Biography: Susan L. Siegfried, Professor of History of Art and Women's Studies, received her Ph.D. from Harvard University.  Her research interests include the thematisation of gender, social spaces for viewing art, and theoretical models of interpretation.  She has published on European art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and contributed to major exhibitions in her field.  She is currently completing  Ingres’s Imaginary; examining Ingres in the context of new imaginative paradigms informing artistic practice and responses to art in the early nineteenth century.  Her articles in press include “Femininity and the Hybridity of Genre Painting,” French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington D. C., 2006, and “The Artifice of Antiquity: David’s Sappho and Phaon,” David after David, Clark Art Institute, 2007.

Publications:

Staging Empire:  Napoleon, Ingres, and David

Fingering Ingres (co-author, 2001)

The Art of Louis-Léopold Boilly (1995)

“Un certain regard:  Ingres, Delacroix, et l’Odalisque,” in Sébastian Allard, ed., Paris 1820 : L’affirmation de la génération romantique (2005)

“Engaging the Audience:  Sexual Economies of Vision in Joseph Wright,” Representations (1995)