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Kelly Presutti is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, where she teaches courses related to modern Western art and environmental humanities. Her research primarily focuses on nineteenth-century art and visual culture, landscapes, and ecocriticism. She is the author of the forthcoming book, 'Land Landscape: Art, Environment, Making Modern France' (2024), which explores four landscape typologies—forests, mountains, wetlands, and coasts—as sites of negotiation and contestation between state power and local inhabitants within the environment. Presutti is also developing a new project that investigates the art object collections of the French navy, highlighting stories of failure, weakness, and defeat that reveal the unexpected role of disaster in shaping imperial maritime identity. Prior to completing her PhD, she held positions at the Getty, Musée d’Orsay, and Peggy Guggenheim Collection, among other arts organizations. Her work has received support from institutions such as Harvard's Center for European Studies and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. She has received fellowships from the Huntington Library and the Yale Center for British Art, along with the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, UK.
Department of Architecture