SUSAN WALLER, (Ph.D. Northwestern University, M.A. Boston University) teaches nineteenth and twentieth century European art. She has taught specialized courses on the nude, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and self-portraiture and the social construction of the artist. She regularly teaches the Sophomore/Junior Seminar, which introduces students to the methodologies of art history and is required for all art history majors. Previously, she taught at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to completing the Ph.D., she held curatorial positions at Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and The Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine. She has been awarded fellowships by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association of University Women, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.

Professor Waller’s publications focus on issues of gender and the social aspects artistic production. They include two books: The Invention of the Model: Artists and Models in Paris, 1830-1870 (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) and Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History (Metuchen, NY and London: Scarecrow Press, 1991). Her other publications include "Académie and Fraternité: constructing masculinities in the education of French artists," in Artistic Brotherhoods in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Laura Morowitz and William Vaughan (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2000) and essays in History of Photography, Oxford Art Journal, and Woman’s Art Journal.

Contact Information:

Susan Waller
Associate Professor
Art & Art History
509 Lucas Hall
314.516.6499
wallersu@msx.umsl.edu