Diane Wolfthal

Diane Wolfthal holds the David and Caroline Minter Chair of Humanities at Rice University, where she is also professor of art history and current chair of her department. She joined Rice in 2008, after teaching at New York University, Columbia University and Arizona State University. She is a specialist in late medieval and early modern European art and has published three books, including The Beginnings of Netherlandish Canvas Painting, 1400–1530 (1989) and Picturing Yiddish: Gender, Identity, and Memory in Illustrated Yiddish Books of Renaissance Italy (2004). Her book In and Out of the Marital Bed: Seeing Sex in Late Medieval and Early Modern Art will be published this summer by Yale University Press. Wolfthal was a founding co-editor of Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal. Her numerous awards include a Paul Mellon Visiting Senior Fellowship at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and two National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships.