Katie Hornstein
Chair, Department of Art History
Associate Professor of Art History
Professor Hornstein is a specialist of nineteenth-century French art and visual culture. Her teaching and research interests include the history of war imagery, nineteenth-century technologies of visual reproduction and their interaction with more established media, forgotten industrial objects, reception theory and history, and most recently, the representation of animals and their relationship to art's histories. Professor Hornstein's forthcoming book, Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth-Century (Yale University Press, 2023), considers the relationship between animality, spectatorship, and visual production by identifying and interrogating a series of "encounters" that took place between artists, their publics, and lions in Salon exhibitions, artists' studios, in the pages of illustrated books and periodicals, and in the spaces of menageries and circuses over the course of the nineteenth century. The book argues that there was such a thing as the lion experience of the nineteenth century and seeks to uncover and explore what that might mean.
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Department(s)
Art History
Education
- B.A. University of California, Berkeley, 2001
- Ph.D. University of Michigan, 2010
Selected Publications
BOOKS:
Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century. Yale University Press, 2024.
Picturing War in France, 1792-1856, Yale University Press, 2018.
Horace Vernet and the Thresholds of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, eds. Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein (Hanover, N.H: University Press of New England, 2017).
JOURNAL ARTICLES:
"Suspended Collectivity: Horace Vernet's The Crossing the Arcole Bridge (1826)," Art History 72:3 (June: 2014): 429-453. (Official Commendation, Malcolm Bowie Prize, French Historical Studies)
Works In Progress
"Beaver Society," and "Lions: The Trap of Meaning," Dictionnaire d'histoire critique des animaux, edited by Pierre Serna, Véronique Le Ru, Erica Joy Mannucci. 2500 words each. Éditions Champ Vallon, expected late 2024.
"Eat the Messenger: Carrier Pigeons and the Speed of Information in the Nineteenth Century," article on carrier pigeons, information security, and financial speculation, circa 1820-1840.
Animal Modernities: Images, Objects, Histories. co-edited with Daniel Harkett; edited collection of 14 essays. University of Leuven Press, expected 2025.
"War, Commemoration, Mutilation: Napoleonic War Horses after the Battle of Waterloo," in Animal Modernities: Images, Objects, Histories, 5,000-word essay in process.
Selected Works & Activities
Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant for Myth and Menagerie ($11,000), College Art Association, 2022
Professor Arthur M. Wilson and Mary Tolford Wilson Faculty Fellowship/ Senior Faculty Grant, Dartmouth College, 2020-2021
ACLS Fellowship, 2018-2019
Chercheur accueillie, Centre Alexandre Koyré, EHESS/CNRS/MNHN, Paris, France, 2018-2019
John M. Manley Huntington Award for Newly Tenured Faculty, 2018
Jacobus Family Award, 2018
Millard Meiss Publication Fund Grant for Picturing War in France, 1792-1856, College Art Association, 2017
Runner-up, Malcolm Bowie Prize, French Historical Studies, "Suspended Collectivity: Horace Vernet's The Crossing of the Arcole Bridge (1826)," 2015