ART HISTORY FACULTY

 

Michelle Foa
Office: 311 Woldenberg Art Bldg
Phone: (504) 314-2227
email: mfoa@tulane.edu

Michelle Foa, Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Princeton, 2008) – Nineteenth-Century European Art

Michelle Foa specializes in European art from the later eighteenth through the early twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on nineteenth-century French art and culture. She received her doctorate from Princeton University in 2008, and is currently writing a book on the Neo-Impressionist artist Georges Seurat. Professor Foa’s research on Seurat analyzes his body of work as a sustained inquiry into the conditions, possibilities, and limits of visual perception and cognition for navigating and comprehending the external world. Other research and teaching interests include the relationship between art and theories of sensory perception, nineteenth-century art criticism and writings on art, the history of photography, and the history of exhibition practices and spaces. Before coming to Tulane, she taught at Mount Holyoke College, the University of Pennsylvania, and Princeton University.