Dr. Stephanie Leitch
Assistant Professor,
Northern European Art
Director of Undergraduate Studies Ph.D. University of Chicago
A.B. Princeton University
Directive status: Doctoral
409 Fine Arts Building
(850) 644-7067
sleitch@fsu.edu
Fall 2009 Office Hours:
Tuesday & Wednesday, 2 - 3:30
Stephanie Leitch joined the faculty in 2007, after completing a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago. Her work on the print productions of artists in the circle of Maximilian I explores their ties to humanists and south German merchants who together were responsible for the first ethnographic depictions of New World natives circulating in Europe. Her research interests track their obsessions: mapping, antiquarianism, the trade and collecting that produced the strange objects crammed into kunstkammers, and prints of things even stranger. Her book manuscript in preparation examines the role of print culture in mapping ethnography in early modern Germany; it queries how printed illustration became especially suited to ratify the claims of empiricism and the important role it played in the visual representation of truth.
Lecture Courses Offered:
Art of Northern Europe
Cosmopolitan Renaissance
Cross-cultural Currents in the Renaissance
History of Printmaking
Graduate Seminars:
Rethinking the Renaissance
European Encounters with the New World
Fact and Fiction in the Early Modern Print
Renaissance Organization: Documenting, Collecting, and Remembering
Selected Publications:
Mapping Ethnography in Early Modern Germany: Print Culture and its Marvels, manuscript forthcoming, Palgrave 2010
"Burgkmair's Peoples of Africa and India (1508) and the Origins of Ethnography in Print," Art Bulletin 91:2 (June 2009), 134-159
“The Wild Man, Charlemagne, and the German Body,” Art History: Journal of the Association of Art Historian, 31:3 (June 2008), 283-302
“Seeing Objects in Personal Devotion,” Pious Journeys: Christian Devotional Art and Practice in the later Middle Ages and Renaissance (Chicago, 2001)