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Nancy Locke teaches courses in European art from approximately 1780 to 1940 and the history of photography from its inception to the present. She is the author of 'Manet Family Romance' (Princeton University Press, 2001) and 'Cézanne’s Shadows' (Penn State University Press, 2025). Her articles have appeared in journals such as the Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, and History of Photography, and she has contributed essays and catalogue entries for various exhibition catalogues, including 'Cezanne au Jas de Bouffan' at the Musée Granet (2025) and 'Manet’s Model Family' at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (2024). Locke has delivered invited lectures at prestigious institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and the National Gallery of Art. She has served as president of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art and joined the faculty at Penn State University in 2003 after teaching for eleven years at Wayne State University in Detroit. She has been a recipient of multiple grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Dedalus Foundation.
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