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Norma Broude,
Professor of Art History



Professor Broude (PhD Columbia University 1967, MA Columbia University 1964, BA Hunter College 1962) is Professor of Art History at American University in Washington, D.C. A specialist in Nineteenth-Century French and Italian painting, she is the author of The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1987) and Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century (1991; paperback reprint, 1997). She is also the editor of Seurat in Perspective (1978), World Impressionism: The International Movement (1990), and Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris (2002). A pioneering feminist scholar, Broude is co-editor (with Mary D.Garrard) of the influential anthology Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany (1982), its sequel, The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (1992), as well as The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact (1994). Their most recent collection of feminist essays, Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History after Postmodernism, was published by the University of California Press (2005). Broude has served as General Editor of The Rizzoli Art Series (thirty-two monographs published between 1991 and 1994) and as a member of the College Art Association's ART BULLETIN Advisory Committee (1995-1998). Her articles have appeared in The Art Bulletin, The Burlington Magazine, The Gazette des Beaux-Arts, and other journals.

Professor Broude teaches three advanced courses in European painting: Rococo to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Cubism to Surrealism. In recent years, she has offered graduate seminars (click here for descriptions) on such topics as Degas, World Impressionism, Modern Italian Art, and Women Artists in the Modern Era.


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