Wendy Wassyng Roworth

Candidate statement

Wendy Wassyng Roworth is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Rhode Island. Her publications on Italian and British art, notably the art and life of Angelica Kauffman, include Angelica Kauffman: A Continental Artist in Georgian England (1992) and as co-editor Italy’s Eighteenth-Century: Gender and Culture in the Age of the Grand Tour (2009). Roworth’s articles and reviews have appeared in Eighteenth-Century Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, Art Bulletin, Getty Research Journal, Burlington Magazine, Woman’s Art Journal and elsewhere. She served on the ASECS Executive Board and other society committees, the editorial board of Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, advisory board of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and currently on the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Life. She was a founder member of HECAA (Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture) and the Historians of British Art. Throughout her career Roworth has advocated for faculty and other academics, graduate students, and the humanities through leadership roles in the AAUP (American Association of University Professors), including as Vice-President, as Department Chair of Art and Art History, and as president of the URI faculty union.