Angela Rosenthal
Associate Professor
18th- & 19th-century
Ph.D., Trier University, 1994

e: angela.rosenthal@dartmouth.edu
tel: 646-3426
office: 207 Carpenter

Courses Taught at Dartmouth
Art History 2, Introduction to Art History II
Art History 48, Art of the Eighteenth Century
Art History 51, The Nineteenth Century: Visions of Modernity
Art History 80, Orientalism, Race, and the Power of Representation
Art History 84, Women Artists and Gender Theories (1550-the Present)

In addition to these courses, Angela Rosenthal also teaches specialized courses related to her research. She also regularly teaches the department's senior seminar on Theory & Method in Art History.

Special Interests
Angela Rosenthal specializes in early modern European visual culture (especially British art within a global perspective), with an emphasis on cultural history, gender studies, feminist and post-colonial theory, and the history of art criticism. Rosenthal teaches courses on European art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the theories and methods of art history.

Angela Rosenthal studied art history, psychology and social anthropology at Trier University, Germany and in the UK (The Courtauld Institute of Art, University College London, and Westfield College). Before joining the faculty at Dartmouth College in 1997, she was curator of contemporary art at the Stadtgalerie in Saarbrücken (1994-95), and Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University (1995-97).

She is the author of two books on Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807), a Swiss-born, Italian-trained artist, who is regarded as one of the most influential painters of the eighteenth century. Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility (Yale University Press, 2006) is devoted to Kauffman's role as a painter of portraits and narrative paintings. It explores the artist's work and career by considering how Kauffman reconciled the public and presumed masculine pursuit of painting with her role as woman artist and arbiter of private taste.

Rosenthal is co-editor and -author of The Other Hogarth: The Aesthetics of Difference (Princeton University Press, 2001), which was Winner of a 2002 New York Book Show Award and also received the Historians of British Art Book Award, College Art Association 2003, for best edited volume; and co-ed. and co-auth. with Agnes Lugo-Ortiz of a forthcoming volume on Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World, 1630-1890. She has served as Advisory Editor of Eighteenth-Century Studies (1999-2003) and as guest editor of a special issue of Eighteenth-Century Studies on "Hair" (38:1, Fall 2004), and serves on the Executive Board of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Between 1994 and 2005 Rosenthal has been on the editorial board of the German art journal Frauen Kunst Wissenschaft (Jonas Verlag, Marburg), and has co-edited three special issues for the journal: Der Einfluß der Schwulen- und Lesbenstudien auf Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte, FKW 21 (Spring 1996); xx.xy.xxl-Alternative Körper, FKW 29, (Spring/Summer 2000); Netz/Haut/Nah, FKW 30 (Fall/Winter 2000).

Rosenthal's current research project emerges from her past work on the visual formulation of subjectivity, as well as from her engagement with contemporary post-colonial art theory. In this new book project, entitled The White of Enlightenment: Racializing Bodies in 18th-Century British Visual Culture, Rosenthal seek to complement the growing field of research on concepts of "race" and "ethnicity" in the visual arts in early modern Europe by examining the racializiation of the European body and figurations of "whiteness." This project has been supported by fellowships in residence from the Huntington Library and Galleries in San Marino, CA, and from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, MA. At present Rosenthal is completing her study with the support of a year long Paul Mellon Senior Fellow for Studies in British Art.

At Dartmouth College Rosenthal is directing the 2007 term-long Humanities Institute on Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity, with Professor David Bindman as the distinguished Morton senior fellow.

Selected Publications
•Angelica Kauffman: Art and Sensibility (Yale University Press, 2006)

•Angelika Kauffmann: Bildnismalerei im 18. Jahrhundert (Berlin: Reimer Verlag, 1996).

•The Other Hogarth: Aesthetics of Difference, ed. with Bernadette Fort (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 2001).

•Eighteenth-Century Studies guest editor of special issue on Hair 38:1 (Fall 2004).

• “Visceral Culture: Blushing and the Legibility of Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century British Portraiture,” Art History 27: 4, special issue on Visual Culture (September 2004) 562-592; also published as a book (Oxford: Blackwell's, 2005).

• “Infant Academies and the Childhood of Art: Vigée-Lebrun's Julie with a Mirror,” Eighteenth-Century Studies 37:4 (Summer 2004), 605-628.

• “The Fall and Rise of Kitty Fisher: Joshua Reynolds and the Sitter's Share,” in Framing Women. Changing Frames of Representation from the Enlightenment to Postmodernism, ed. Sandra Carroll, Birgit Pretzsch, and Peter Wagner (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2003), 53-87.

• "She's Got the Look! Eighteenth-Century Female Portrait Painters and the Psychology of a Potentially 'Dangerous Employment,'" in Portraiture: Facing the Subject, ed. Joanna Woodall (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), 147-66.

•"Angelica Kauffman Ma(s)king Claims," Art History 15 (1992), 38-59.

Links
-No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race,
Nationality and Ethnicity http://www.dartmouth.edu/~lhc/institutes/fall2007/index.html

-William Hogarth and 18th-century Print Culture; this virtual exhibition documents the exhibition held at the Block Gallery, Northwestern University in 1997, celebrating the 300th anniversary of Hogarth's birth. The exhibition was curated by Angela Rosenthal and a team of eight co-curators from the graduate division of the Department of Art History at Northwestern University.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/spec/hogarth/main.html