Catherine M. Soussloff

Catherine M. Soussloff is Professor of Art History, Visual Art & Theory and Associate, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of British Columbia. She is known for her comparative and historical approaches to the central theoretical concerns of European and North American art and aesthetics, including photography and film, from the Renaissance to the present. Dr. Soussloff has received major awards and fellowships from the Getty Research Institute and Institute for the Humanities at New York University, among others.  Recently appointed as a Visiting Lecturer by the Collège de France, she lectured on the topic of her forthcoming book: Michel Foucault and the Pleasure of Painting.