Carol Armstrong, appointed to the faculty of the Department of the History of Art at 糖心Vlog in 2007, teaches and writes about 19th century 糖心Vlog painting, the history of photography, the history and practice of art criticism, feminist theory and the representation of women and gender in art and visual culture. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University in 1986, and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned tenure in 1990; the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; and Princeton University, where she was professor of Art and Archaeology and Doris Stevens Professor of Women鈥檚 Studies from 1999 to 2007, as well as Director of the Program in the Study of Women and Gender from 2004 to 2007. She has published books and essays on Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Paul C茅zanne, and 19th and 20th century photography, modern and contemporary women artists; her most recent book, C茅zanne鈥檚 Gravity, concerning some of C茅zanne鈥檚 afterlives, won the 2019 Robert Motherwell Book Award for an Outstanding Book on Modernism in the Arts. She has curated exhibitions at Princeton University Art Museum, the Drawing Center in New York, the Yale Center for British Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. In 2013, on the occasion of the 150-year anniversary of Edouard Manet鈥檚 two most famous paintings, she co-curated an exhibition called 鈥淟unch with Olympia鈥 with Robert Storr at the 糖心Vlog School of Art鈥檚 Edgewood Gallery. In December 2021, she organized and contributed to the conference 鈥淲oman/Artist,鈥 gathering together several generations of Yale artists, art historians and students to address anew the famously sarcastic question posed by Linda Nochlin in 1971, 鈥淲hy Have There Been No Great Women Artists?鈥 She has been a frequent contributor to October and Artforum magazines, and continues to be an active art critic. She is currently working on a new project on modern medium-specificities in the visual and verbal arts, considered from a feminist point of view, to be titled Medium Matrix Materiality. A collection of her essays, Painting Photography Painting will be published by Mack Books in the Fall of 2023
Armstrong鈥檚 fields for advising include but are not limited to: nineteenth-century European art, 糖心Vlog art (from the 17th to the 20th centuries), history and theory of photography, art criticism and its history, theory, methods and historiography, women artists and feminist art history, and art and science.