Jennifer Germann (Art History, Ithaca College)

Candidate statement

Jennifer Germann is Associate Professor and incoming Chair of Art History at Ithaca College, where she teaches art history and visual culture studies and is a faculty affiliate of the Women’s and Gender Studies program. Her current research investigates the intersections of gender, social rank, and race in relation to the representation of Black and mixed-race women in eighteenth-century Britain. She is the author of Picturing Marie Leszczinska: Representing Queenship in Eighteenth-Century France (Ashgate 2015) and co-editor of Materializing Gender in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Ashgate 2016) with Dr. Heidi Strobel. She has published articles and chapters on Marie Leszczinska, Anne of Austria, and Marie-Éléonore Godefroid, including in SECC. She is co-editor of a forthcoming special issue of ECS with Dr. Michael Yonan. She has been awarded grants and fellowships from the Lurcy Foundation, the NEH, the Yale Center for British Art, and she is a recent Fulbright Scholar at the University of York. She attended her first ASECS conference as a PhD candidate, has been a faithful member since 1999, and served as HECAA Secretary-Treasurer. She has also served on award committees for both HECAA and ASECS and has participated on and chaired sessions at ASECS, ISECS, and NEASECS. She is committed to the future of ASECS as a leading interdisciplinary organization supporting an upcoming generation of scholars and seeks to promote diversity in the membership and in the subjects of study. ASECS has been central to her academic life since 1997 and, if elected, she would welcome the opportunity to serve as Member-at-Large.