At the Met with Cézanne's Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory, 1891. Photo by Julie Clack.
Alsdorf teaches courses on art from the eighteenth century through the twentieth century. Her seminars have addressed the convergence of art, philosophy, and social theory; word and image studies; the cross-fertilization of painting and the novel; historical relationships between painting, print culture, and film; feminism, masculinity, and art history; methodology; and new directions in the field. At Princeton she is an associated faculty member of the Department of French and Italian, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Program in Media + Modernity, and she also teaches courses for the Programs in Humanistic Studies and in European Cultural Studies. All of her courses take advantage of area museums and campus collections.
Recent Courses
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Before and After Gender Co-taught with Irene Small |
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| Art and Nihilism: Goya and Blake | |
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Painting and Literature in Nineteenth Century France and England Co-taught with Deborah Nord |
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| Word and Image in the Nineteenth Century | |
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The Artist as Idea Co-taught with Carolyn Yerkes |
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Art and Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century Co-taught with Rachael DeLue |
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| Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: New Approaches | |
| European Art: Revolutions and Avant-Gardes |
Course Highlights
