Specialization:
Areas of Concentration: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Art; Early Modern Print Culture; Illustrated Travelogues; Dutch Global Expanses; Indonesia
Faculty Advisor: Ann Jensen Adams
Committee Members: Mark A. Meadow, María Lumberas
Dissertation: "Picturing Indonesia in the Dutch Republic: The Printed Images of Johan Nieuhof’s Remarkable Voyages and Travels to the East-Indies (1682)"
M.A. Thesis: "From Wool to Paper: Johannes Stradanus and the Transmediality of his ‘Hunting Scenes'" (The Courtauld Institute of Art, completed 2015)
Bio:
Emma Gagnon is a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is writing her dissertation on printed images of Indonesia circulating in the Dutch Republic. Her other research interests include the material and visual culture of Early Modern travel, domesticity and gender in Dutch cities—particularly Batavia (present-day Jakarta, Indonesia), and images of comestible commodities in Dutch travelogues. Before her doctoral studies at UCSB, she received a B.A in art history Summa Cum Laude from New York University in 2013, and an M.A in art history with distinction from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2015. In addition to her teaching experience at UCSB, Emma has held internships and positions in publishing, collection management, and curating in New York and London.
In support of her dissertation, Emma has been awarded research fellowships from the Newberry Library, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, the Harry Ransom Center at UT Austin, and the Getty Research Institute, as well as the Kenneth Karmiole Fellowship for research at the UCLA Clark Memorial Library and the Brill Fellowship at the Scaliger Instituut, Universiteit Leiden.