Catherine Dossin
- Associate Professor // Art and Design // Rueff School
- Associate Professor // Art History // Rueff School
- Associate Professor // Comparative Literature // SLC
- Associate Professor // Cornerstone
- Affiliated Faculty // Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies // SIS
- Affiliated Faculty // Latin American Studies // SIS
Office and Contact
Room: PAO 3157
Office hours: TTH 3-4pm
Email: cdossin@purdue.edu
Phone: (765) 494-6469
Fax: (765) 496-2076
Ph.D., The University of Texas, Austin.
M.A., Université Paris IV-Sorbonne
Specialization
19th and 20th-century American and European Art, Transatlantic Exchanges, and Artistic Circulations
Catherine Dossin is Associate Professor of Art History at Purdue University and Editor of the Artl@s Bulletin.
Originally from France, she received a Master’s degree from the Sorbonne and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.
She is the author of The Rise and Fall of American Art, 1940s-1980s: A Geopolitics of Western Art Worlds (Routledge, 2015), the co-editor with Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann and Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel of Circulations in the Global History of Art (Routledge, 2015), the co-author with Lynn Boland of Louise Blair Daura: A Virginian in Paris (University of Georgia, 2017), and the editor of France and the Visual Arts since 1945: Remapping European Postwar and Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Her new book, French Images of America in the Age of Revolutions: The Visual History of a Colonial Mirage https://www.routledge.com/French-Images-of-America-in-the-Age-of-Revolutions-The-Visual-History-of-a-Colonial-Mirage/Dossin/p/book/9781041399896 (forthcoming with Routledge) examines how "America" was imagined in France during the American, French, and Haitian Revolutions.
At Purdue University, she teaches courses on Western Modern and Contemporary Art, Latin American Art, Women Artists, and Global Art.
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