Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi is Professor of Art History at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She currently serves as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History.

Her research interest is in the interdisciplinary study of art, literature, and culture. She is the author of two books, Perrault’s Morals for Moderns (1984) and Charles Perrault’s Memoirs of My Life (1989), the latter of which was recognized by the journal of the American Library Association as one of the Outstanding Academic Books of 1990. She was co-author of La Querelle d’Alceste (1994), and has published numerous articles in scholarly journals, including Woman’s Art Journal, Seventeenth Century French Studies, French Review, Journal of Popular Culture, and Source: Notes in the History of Art.

Zarucchi received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983. She joined the campus in 1985 in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and has held a joint appointment with Art and Art History since 1995. From 2003-06, she served as Art History Coordinator, and she became Department Chair in Fall 2006. At the University of Missouri-St. Louis, she has been very active in campus service, and was elected Chair of the University Senate for two years (1998-2000). She currently serves as Coordinator of the Campus Mediation Service, Chair of the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, and President of the UMSL Chapter of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi. In September 2006, Zarucchi received the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Service.

Contact Information:

Jeanne Morgan Zarucchi
Professor
Department Chairperson
503 Lucas Hall
314.516.6575
zarucchi@umsl.edu