Stephan F. Eisenman
Department of Art History

Stephen F. Eisenman (Ph.D. Princeton), Associate Professor of Art History, working on late nineteenth century French art. He is the author of The Temptation of Saint Redon (1992) and Gauguin's Skirt (1997). He is also the editor and principal author of a widely used university textbook, Nineteenth Century Art: A Critical History (1994). He is currently completing, with Karl Werckmeister, a textbook on the social and political history of European art. In addition, he is co-authoring, with Richard Brettell, a catalogue of 19th century painting at the Norton Simon Museum. In 1999 he held a Clark Art Institute Summer Research Fellowship and during calendar year 2001-2002, he was Meyers Fellow at the Huntington Library in San Marino where he conducted research for a book devoted to William Morris and "primitive communism." Eisenman’s past research was supported by a MacArthur Foundation Research Grant and NEH fellowship.

s-eisenman@northwestern.edu