Stephanie Porras
Professor - Art History
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty
Region
- General Latin America
- South America
Additional Info
Recently-Taught Latin America-Related Courses:
Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in the Past 5 Years:
4
Research
Flemish Artists and the Americas, the idea of antiquity in the North, early modern print culture, early modern drawing practice, the emergence of genre imagery, Dutch Brazil, Mexico
Degrees
- B.A., Claremont McKenna College (Pomona College), Art History, 2003
- M.A., University College of London, History of Art, 2004
- Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, History of Art, 2009
Academic Experience
Academic Experience
- Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2012-
- Lecturer and Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, 2011-2012
- Visiting Lecturer, Courtauld Institute of Art, 2010
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Postdoctoral Fellow, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg and Courtauld Institute of Art, 2009-2010
- Visiting Lecturer, University College London, 2007-2008
Distinctions
- Tulane University, Provost’s Office, Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant, 2017
- Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts, Lurcy Grant, 2017
- Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Fellowship, 2016/17
- Getty Foundation, University of California Los Angeles, Digital Art History Summer Institute participant, 2015
- Millard Meiss Publication Award, College Art Association, 2014
- Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, 2011-2012
- Leibniz-Gemeinschaft Postdoctoral Fellow, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg and Courtauld Institute of Art, 2009/10
- British Academy Small Research Grant, 2010
- Visiting Fellowship, Harvard University, 2007/2008
- Overseas Research Students Award Recipient, 2005-2009
Languages
- German
- Dutch
- French
- Spanish
Overseas Experience
- England
- Germany
Selected Publications
- 2016. “St. Michael the Archangel: Spiritual, visual and material translations from Antwerp to Lima,” in E. Wouk and S. Karr-Schmidt, Prints in Translation, 1450-1750: Image, Materiality, Space 183-202. Burlington, VT: Ashgate .
- 2016. “Going viral? Maerten de Vos’s St Michael the Archangel,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 66: 54-78.
- 2014. “Copies, cannibals and conquerors: Maarten de Vos’s The Big Fish eat the Small,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 64: 248-71.
- 2013. “Dürer’s Copies.” In The Young Dürer: Drawing the Figure, ed. Stephanie Buck and Stephanie Porras. London: Courtauld Institute of Art exhibition catalogue.
- 2012. “ein freie hant: Drawing, autonomy and the young Albrecht Dürer,” in Der frühe Dürer. (Nuremberg: Germanisches Nationalmuseum exhibition catalogue).
- 2011. “Rural Memory, Pagan Idolatry: Pieter Bruegel’s Peasant Shrines,” Art History 34.3
- 2011. “Producing the Vernacular: Antwerp, Cultural Archaeology and the Bruegelian Peasant,” Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art 3.1