Kate Hanson
Faculty Fellow in the Humanities
Bio
Kate Hanson earned her Ph.D. in art history from the University of Southern California, where she specialized in early modern Italian visual culture. Her dissertation, "Visualizing Culinary Culture at the Medici and Farnese Courts," explored images of food and cooking in seventeenth-century still life painting, print, and manuscripts from Florence and Parma. At Syracuse University, she has taught Consuming Culture and Madness, Mystery, Genius? Examining Mythologies of the Artist for the CAS 100 program as well as the Literature of Art Criticism course for the Art and Music Histories department.
Research and Teaching Interests
Visual and material culture, history of food and culinary culture, history of science, early modern constructions of gender, historiography of genius.
Courses
Consuming Culture
Madness, Mystery, Genius? Examining Mythologies of the Artist
Literature of Art Criticism
Email: khanso01@syr.edu
Humanities Faculty Fellow