Stephanie Porras

Lecturer and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Northern Renaissance art, print culture and drawings
Ph.D., The Courtauld Institute of Art, 2009

Contact Information

Phone: (212) 854-1938

Office: 653A Schermerhorn Extension
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 11-12

Biography

Stephanie Porras specializes in Northern art of the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. She is currently working on a book manuscript, Pieter Bruegel's Historical Imagination, which proposes a new understanding of Bruegel as an artist deeply concerned with history. She is also contributing an essay and several catalogue entries to the forthcoming exhibition Der fruhe Dürer, to be held at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg in 2012. Stephanie has taught courses on early modern print culture, Dutch genre painting and the Northern Renaissance at the Courtuald Institute and University College London before coming to Columbia. Her current interests include: the idea of antiquity in the North, the emergence of genre imagery, the role of the nude in Northern art, early modern Dutch print publishing, and Renaissance drawing practice, in particular the role of copy-drawing.

Publications

"Rural Memory, Pagan Idolatry: Pieter Bruegel's Peasant Shrines," Art History 34.3 (June 2011).

"Producing the Vernacular: Antwerp, Cultural Archaeology and the Bruegelian Peasant," Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art, 3.1 (Winter 2010).

"Repeat Viewing: Hendrick Hondius's Effigies," Picturing the Netherlandish Canon, online exhibition and website co-curated with Joanna Woodall.