Prof. Kristel Smentek

While Smentek's research and curatorial work is anchored in the eighteenth century, her teaching bridges the modern and early modern periods. She teaches courses on European visual and material culture from the fifteenth century to the present, ornament from the Rococo to the 1920s, material histories of art and design, the history and theory of the art museum, the history of collecting, the visual cultures of the European Enlightenment, and Asian-European encounters in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.