Stephanie Porras

Professor - Art History

School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
People Classification
Faculty
Tulane Affiliation
Affiliated Faculty
Region
  • General Latin America
  • South America
Stephanie Porras

Courses

Theaters of the Baroque, Public Policy and the Arts, European Prints in Latin America (independent study)

Additional Info

Number of Dissertations or Theses Supervised in Past 5 Years: 5 

Research

Flemish and Dutch artists and artworks and the Americas, early modern print culture, early modern drawing practice, the emergence of genre imagery, Dutch Brazil, Dutch Caribbean and Suriname, Philippines 

Degrees

  • Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, History of Art, 2009
  • M.A., University College of London, History of Art, 2004
  • B.A., Claremont McKenna College (Pomona College), Art History, 2003

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Professor, Tulane University, 2022-
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2018-2022
  • Assistant Professor, Tulane University, 2012-2018
  • Lecturer and Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Columbia University, 2011-2012

Distinctions

  • Mellon Foundation, Higher Learning grant, Crossroads Cohort: Africana Studies at the Intersection of Art History and Art Making, 2023-2027
  • Guest Professor, Summer School at Leiden University/University of Cambridge, June 2023
  • Renaissance Society of America, Samuel H. Kress Publication grant, 2022
  • Millard Meiss Publication Award, College Art Association, 2021
  • Association of Print Scholars, Publication grant, 2021
  • Franklin Pease G.Y. Memorial Prize, Colonial Latin American Review, for the best article published in 2019 and 2020
  • Visiting Senior Fellowship, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, 2019
  • Outstanding Academic Title for Art of the Northern Renaissance, Choice, 2018
  • Tulane University, Provost’s Office, Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant, 2023/4
  • Tulane University, Dorothy Beckemeyer Skau Art and Music Fund at the Newcomb Institute, 2022/23
  • Tulane University, School of Liberal Arts, A Studio in the Woods residency, 2022/23
  • Tulane University, Provost’s Office, Carol Lavin Bernick Faculty Grant, 2020/21

Languages

  • German
  • Spanish
  • French
  • Dutch

Overseas Experience

  • England
  • Germany

Related Experience

  • Print Room Assistant, Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, 2005-2007, 2008-2009

Selected Publications

  • 2024. “Marfil y Plumas; San Jeronimo a traves de los oceanos Atlantico y el Pacifico.” Sillares. Revista De Estudios Histroicos 4 no. 7 (2024): 238-77.
  • 2023. The First Viral Images: Maerten de Vos, Antwerp print and the early modern globe (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2023).
  • 2023. “Foul biting, or Diego Valadés and the Medium of Print,” Art History 46.5 (November 2023): 866-94. Special issue Vast Early Americas, co-edited by Esther Chadwick and Cécile Fromont.
  • 2023. S. Campbell, (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Global Renaissance Art (New York and London: Routledge, 2024). - with A. Lehmann and J. Keizer, (eds.) Wet Lands: Shaping environments in Netherlandish art & architecture, Nederlands Kunsthistorisch...
  • 2020. "Locating Hispano-Philippine ivories," Colonial Latin American Review 29:2: 256-291.
  • 2018. Art of the Northern Renaissance: Courts, Commerce, Devotion (London: Laurence King, 2018).
  • 2016. Pieter Bruegel’s Historical Imagination (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2016).