Meredith Martin

Meredith Martin is an Assistant Professor of Art at Wellesley College, where she teaches 18th- and 19th-Century European art and architecture. She joined the Wellesley faculty in 2008, after having been a postdoctoral fellow in the art history department at Columbia University. Dr. Martin received a BA in Art History from Princeton University in 1997 and a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2006.

Her research interests include: 18th- and 19th-Century French visual and material culture, architectural theory and landscape design; gender, space, and the domestic interior; early neo-classicism; art and colonialism; and the historiography of the Rococo.

Dr. Martin has published on subjects ranging from 18th-Century animal painting to a neo-rococo trend in contemporary art, and is the co-author, with Scott Rothkopf, of Period Eye: Karen Kilimnik’s Fancy Pictures (Serpentine Gallery/Koenig Books, 2007). She has written a book entitled Dairy Queens: Pastoral Architecture and Political Theater from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette that is forthcoming from Harvard University Press, and she is also co-editing a volume with Denise Baxter entitled Architectural Space in the Eighteenth-Century: Constructing Identities and Interiors, which will be published by Ashgate. Dr. Martin has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.

At Wellesley, Dr. Martin teaches courses in European Art and Architecture, 1750-1900; Enlightenment Art and Architecture; Rococo and Neoclassical Interiors; Paris; Capital of the Nineteenth Century; Modern Art and Identity; and Methodologies in Art History.

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Profile last updated: 02/09