Laura Auricchio
(Photo: Matthew Septimus)
Laura Auricchio studies and teaches both eighteenth-century French visual culture and contemporary art. Although topically diverse, her scholarship and courses always proceed from the same premise: that objects of art and design are active agents, capable of supporting, challenging, or helping to forge social and political realities. Whether exploring the role of visual culture in shaping the competing ideologies of the French Revolution or examining contemporary artworks that call attention to problems of cross-cultural translation, her work is simultaneously visually attentive and deeply historical, with particular emphasis on moments of upheaval.
Auricchio received her B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard and her PhD with distinction from Columbia. Her work has been supported by the Fulbright Program, the Whiting Foundation and other organizations. Prior to joining Parsons, she taught at Princeton University and Connecticut College, and was a Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Having held various positions within CAA (College Art Association, the national organization of artists and art historians), she is currently on the editorial board of caa.reviews, for which she also serves as field editor for 18th-century Europe.
Courses:
Recent graduate-level courses:
"On Display"
"Rococo to Revolution"
"Visualizing Revolution"
Recent undergraduate courses:
"Art and Trans-Atlantic Revolution"
"Baroque, Rococo, Neoclassicism"
"Exhibiting Cultures"
"Visualizing Gender, Race and Identity"
Publications:
Laura Auricchio | Publications