Eva Struhal

Associate professor

Department of Humanities


Via Tommaso Gar, 14 - 38122 Trento
tel. 0461 281765
eva.struhal[at]unitn [dot] it
Education

EDUCATION

2007                 Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University: La sempliceimitazione del naturale: Lorenzo Lippi’s poetics of naturalism in seventeenth-century Florence”.

1996                 MA in Art History, University of Vienna. Thesis: “Andrea Mantegnaund die Auftraggeber der Ovetarikapelle” (Andrea Mantegna and the Patrons of the Ovetari Chapel).

Academic career and teaching activities

2016-2017        Invited researcher/scholar at the Department of Art and Art History, The University of Texas at Austin.

2015 -   2021           AssociateProfessor, Université Laval, Département des sciences historiques. 

2015         May-July: „Gastprofessorin“ at Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Johannes-Gutenberg

Universität, Mainz.

2010 – 2015      Assistant Professor, Université Laval, Département des scienceshistoriques.

2008 - 2010      Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Art and Art History.

2006 - 2008      Research Associate at the National Gallery,Washington, DC, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts.

1997-2001       Research Assistant/Lecturer (Assistentin),Department of Art History,University Vienna

Research interests

European early modern art and art theory: art and science; art and poetry; seventeenth-century Italian art; seventeenth- century Flemish art; early modern literary academies.

Memberships in societies and scientific committees

Renaissance Society of America

ICOM

 

Awards and honours

2021                 Fellowship, research group The Exercice of Judgment in the Early Modern Period, Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt: https://www.aau.at/romanistik/forschung/judgment/

2021                 June-July: Visiting Scholar, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice.

2019-2021        Fellowship, Zentrum für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Universität Graz.

2019-2021        Social Sciencesand Humanities Research Councilof Canada, “Before the "Great Divide": The Shared Language(s) of Art and Science intheEarly Modern Period,” co-PI:202.060 CAD.

2017                 BDR grant, Social Sciencesand Humanities Research Council of Canada, “Nouveauxprojets de recherche”, PI: 1250 CAD.

2016-2020        SocialSciences and Humanities Research Council ofCanada, Insight Development Grant, “Who Can Read the Book ofNature,” PI: 64.000 CAD.

Summer 2014   Fellowshipatthe Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolffenbüttel, Germany.