Dr. Stephanie Leitch
Assistant Professor,
Northern European Art
Ph.D. University of Chicago
A.B. Princeton University
406 Fine Arts Building
(850) 645-2536
sleitch@fsu.edu
Stephanie Leitch completed her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2005. 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 academic 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 current research 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. She teaches classes in the Art of Northern Europe, the History of Printmaking, Fact and Fictions in the Renaissance Print, and Cross-currents in the Renaissance, a course which explores artistic continuities between the Mediterranean and lands north of the Alps.