Paulette Goddard Professor of Fine Arts; Vice Chancellor for Regional Campus Initiatives

Ph.D. 1997, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Research interests
Painting in the 17th-century Netherlands; humor, wit, and play in early modern art; the Dutch colonial imaginary 1600-1800

Sample courses
Methods of Art History and Art Criticism; Bosch and Bruegel: New Visions; Genre Painting in the Netherlands, 1500-1700; Rembrandt

Selected publications
Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt, exh. cat., The Newark Museum and Denver Art Museum, 2001.
Rembrandt: Art and Ideas. London: Phaidon Press, 2000.
The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the Seventeenth Century (Studies in Netherlandish Art and Cultural History, 1), Zwolle, The Netherlands: Waanders, 1997.
A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585–1700, New York: Abrams and Prentice-Hall, 1996; London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson; German trans., Frankfurt: Dumont; French trans., Flammarion, Paris.
“After Iconography and Iconoclasm: Current Research in Netherlandish Art, 1566-1700,” The Art Bulletin 84, no. 2 (June 2002), 351-72.

Selected honors
Book Review Editor, The Art Bulletin, 2002-2005
Co-Editor, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, 1998-
Fellowships and Grants: Clark Art Institute, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, Rutgers University Board of Governors, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts