Visiting Assistant Professor

Elizabeth Liebman (Ph.D. 2003, University of Chicago, Visiting Assistant Professor) studies art and natural history in The Long Eighteenth Century. Her dissertation, Painting Natures: Buffon and the Art of the “Histoire naturelle,” originated in her professional practice of scientific illustration in American and European museums. Following a residential fellowship at the Getty Research Institute, she published “Unspeakable Passions: The Civil and Savage Lessons of Early Modern Animal Representation,” and recently, “A Commonwealth of Connoisseurs: British Humanism in the Art and Science of the Ancien Régime.” She has taught at Emory University and Columbia College Chicago. Current research interests pursue the influence of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century performing arts.

e-liebman@northwestern.edu