Susan Casteras | |
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Born | Susan Paulette Casteras |
Occupation | Art historian Educator Curator |
Spouse(s) | Eric Schnapper (m. 1976) |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Vassar College Yale University |
Thesis | Down the Garden Path: Courtship Culture and its Imagery in Victorian Painting (1977) |
Doctoral advisor | George L. Hersey |
Influences | Linda Nochlin Theodore Stebbins |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Art history |
Sub-discipline | British art |
Institutions | Yale University University of Washington |
Influenced | Romita Ray |
Susan Paulette Casteras is an American art historian,educator,and curator. Casteras is Professor of Art History Emeritus from the University of Washington. She is a specialist on British art,particularly Victorian art and Pre-Raphaelitism.
Born to John and Pauline Troyanovich,Casteras received a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and English Literature from Vassar College in 1971,as summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She then earned three degrees in Art History from Yale University:a Master of Arts in 1973,a Master of Philosophy in 1975,and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1977. Her doctoral dissertation was on Victorian art,under the direction of George L. Hersey. [1]
Upon graduating,Casteras was appointed Assistant Curator of Paintings at the Yale Center for British Art. In 1991,she was promoted to Curator for five years. Simultaneously,she was also Lecturer of Art History at her alma mater. She then began her professorial career at the University of Washington,where she was named Professor of Art History Emeritus upon retirement. [2]
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