Research Interests

A pioneering feminist scholar and specialist in nineteenth-century French and Italian painting, Broude is known for critical reassessments of Impressionism and the work of Degas, Caillebotte, Cassatt, Seurat, and the Italian Macchiaioli. With Mary Garrard, she co-edited four influential texts on feminist art history and co-curated Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators for the AU Art Museum. Her article on the frescoes of Giambattista Tiepolo appeared in The Art Bulletin in June, 2009, and her book, Gauguin's Challenge: New Perspectives after Postmodernism, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Academic in 2018.

Selected Publications

 

 "Flora Tristan's Grandson: Reconsidering the Feminist Critique of Paul Gauguin," in Gauguin's Challenge: New Perspectives after Postmodernism, ed. Norma Broude. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

"Revisiting Degas: A Meditation on Women, Horses, and Nature," in Perspectives on Degas, ed. Kathryn Brown. London: Routledge, 2016.

Introducing Feminist Art History, with Mary D. Garrard. Amazon Kindle e-book, 2014  

"G.B. Tiepolo at Villa Valmarana: Gender Ideology in a Patrician Villa of the Settecento," The Art Bulletin, XCI(June 2009) 

• Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism. Co-edited with Mary D. Garrard. University of California Press, 2005.
   
• Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2002.
   
• Edgar Degas. New York: Rizzoli International Publications (The Rizzoli Art Series), 1993.
   
• Georges Seurat. New York: Rizzoli International Publications (The Rizzoli Art Series), 1992.
   
• Impressionism, A Feminist Reading: The Gendering of Art, Science, and Nature in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 1991 and New York: HarperCollins, 1997.
   
• The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact. Co-edited with Mary D. Garrard. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1994.and 1996.
   
• World Impressionism: The International Movement 1860-1920, editor. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990;with simultaneous editions in French (Paris: Nathan), German (Cologne: DuMont), and Italian (Milan: Edizioni Leonardo). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Abradale Press Edition, 1994.
   
• The Macchiaioli: Italian Painters of the Nineteenth Century. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1987.
   
• The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History. Co-edited with Mary D. Garrard. New York: HarperCollins,1992. 
   
• Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany. Co-edited with Mary D. Garrard. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

Exhibitions/Performances

• “Claiming Space: Some American Feminist Originators,” curators Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, American University Museum, 2007-2008.

Professional Presentations

The Courtauld Institute of Art, London, November 3, 2017. "'World Impressionism': The Concept and its afterlife." Keynote address in the symposium "Writing Impressionism into and out of Art History."

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, October 5, 2014: "Degas, Women, Horses, and Nature," paper in Degas and Cassatt: Different Perspectives, symposium marking the conclusion of the Degas/Cassatt exhibition.  Audio available online at: http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/audio-video/audio/degas-cassatt-part-3.html    

   

On February 10, 2011, at the centennial meetings of the College Art Association in New York, art historian Norma Broude and Griselda Pollock (University of Leeds) co-chaired a special centennial session on Feminism. Conceived as a "mash up" that would bring together disparate points of view, this standing-room only session consisted of two panels: Attaining Full Equality: Women Artists, Museums, and Markets; and New Directions and International Perspectives in Feminist Art History.      

Honors, Awards, and Fellowships

   
• College Art Association of America. Art History Recognition Award conferred by the Committee on Women in the Arts, 2000
   
• American University, CAS Nominee for the University's year 2000 Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Other Professional Contributions Award
   
• Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. Award in non-fiction category for The Power of Feminist Art. 1995
   
• The Women's Caucus for Art, Mid-Career Achievement Award, 1992
   
• Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Other Professional Contributions, The College of Arts and Sciences, The American University, Academic Year 1991-92
   
• Mellon Senior Scholar Award, College of Arts and Sciences, The American University, 1989

Grants and Sponsored Research

• The Rockefeller Foundation: Bellaggio Study and Conference Center. Resident scholar, May 1991.
• National Endowment for the Humanities. Fellowship for College Teachers, Spring 1991.
• The J. Paul Getty Trust. Publication subsidy to Yale University Press for The Macchiaiol,1986.
• National Endowment for the Humanities. Fellowship for College Teachers, AY1981-82.
• United States Department of Education, Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education. Mina Shaughnessy Fellow, 1982.
• The American University Faculty Research Grants, 1978, 1981, 1983, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1999, and 2000.
• Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, 1965-66.
• Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1962-63.

Work In Progress

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• "Grace Hartigan and Helene Herzbrun: Other Voices of Abstract Expressionism." Exhibition scheduled to open at the American University Art Museum, Katzen Arts Center, September 2019.
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See CV for full list.