Professor
tp32@nyu.edu
(212) 998-3364
Office Hours
Tuesday 2:00-3:00
Wednesday 9:30-11:00
B.A., History, Northwestern University, 1982
M.A., Art History, Boston University, 1986
Ph.D., Art History, Boston University, 1991
A scholar of nineteenth-century European, especially French art, imperialism, and globalization, Porterfield wrote The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism, 1798-1836 ( Princeton University Press, 1998); co-authored, with Susan Siegfried, Staging Empire: Napoleon, Ingres, and David (Penn State University Press, 2008) ; and edited The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838 (University of Montreal, 2012) . His European, North American, and Middle Eastern publications address museums; representations of history; critical histories of art history; Impressionism; caricature; Orientalism; and legacies of imperialism in contemporary art in Canada and Argentina. He has teamed with colleagues in Britain, Canada, France, and Japan in the organization of international conferences on caricature, cinema and painting, and wakugumi (Conceptual Frameworks in Art History). He has collaborated with the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Princeton Art Museum, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Ashmolean Museum of Oxford. A founding member and now president of the Rseau international pour la formation la recherche en histoire de l'art, he conceived and directed the 2012 Summer Research Academy on Encounters in World Art History at the Getty Research Institute. Prior to joining NYU, Porterfield taught at Connecticut College, Princeton, Rice, and the Universit de Montral, where he held the Canada Research Chair in Nineteenth-Century Art History, and the Universit de Montral Research Chair in Art History and Globalization. He has been a visiting lecturer at NYU, and a visiting professor at The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (the EHESS), and the Universit de Paris Nanterre. His research has been recognized with grants and fellowships from the Clark Art Institute, the Fulbright Foundation, the Huntington Library, the NEH, the University of Oxford's New College, the University of Toronto, and the Yale Center for British Art.
2010
Todd Porterfield's edited volume The Efflorescence of Caricature, 1759-1838 was published by Routledge.
1998
Todd Porterfield's The Allure of Empire: Art in the Service of French Imperialism, 1798-1836 was published by Princeton University Press.
nineteenth-century European especially French art; caricature; Orientalism; legacies of imperialism in contemporary art in Canada and Argentina; globalization
2023 Spring
Curating to Repurpose the Colonial Visual Archive
2022 Fall
Impressionism: Myths and Modernism
Proseminar: Difference without OthernessProseminar: Difference without Otherness
2021 Spring
Civilization, the Extreme West, and the Argentine Artist Léon Ferrari
Proseminar: Difference without Otherness
2021 Fall