Jessica L. Fripp
Texas Christian University School of Art
PO Box 298000, Fort Worth 76129
j.fripp at tcu.edu
Education
Ph.D. (2012), History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Dissertation: “Portraits of Artists and the Social Commerce of Friendship in Eighteenth-Century France”
M.A. (2005), Art History, Williams Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA. Qualifying Paper: “Painting Community in Eighteenth-Century France: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s Portraits of Artists”
B.A. (2002), Art History and Criticism, University of California, San Diego, magna cum laude. Honors Thesis completed with High Distinction: “Dueling Images: The Visual Representation of Power of Diane de Poitiers and Catherine de Medici”
Academic Appointments
Current
2015-present Assistant Professor of Art History, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
Previous
2013-2015 Post-Doctoral Fellow in Material and Visual Culture, Parsons School of Design at The New School, School of Art and Design History and Theory, New York, NY
2012-2013 Lecturer, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Winter 2011 Instructor, University of Michigan Arts in Paris, Paris, France
2005-2006 Visiting Lecturer, Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
Fashion and Identity in the Eighteenth Century
Modern Art I: Romanticism, Classicism, Impressionism
Introduction to Art History
Introduction to Visual Culture (Parsons School of Design)
Eighteenth-Century Art and Design (Parsons School of Design)
Objects as History (Parsons School of Design)
Neoclassicism and Romanticism (The Catholic University of America)
Renaissance Art (The Catholic University of America)
Paris by Site (University of Michigan Arts in Paris Program)
Gender and French Visual Culture: Renaissance to Revolution (University of Michigan Arts in Paris Program)
Graduate
Art Historical Methods
Surface Issues: Painting from 1750-1890
Fashion and Identity in the Eighteenth Century (Parsons School of Design)
Luxury, Consumption, and Sociability in Eighteenth-Century France (Parsons School of Design)
Other Professional Experience
2010-2012 Educator, Muse Education Group, Paris, France
Spring 2009 Guest Curator, “Expressions of Vienna: Master Drawings by Klimt and Schiele from the Pulgram McSparran Collection,” University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
2008-2009 Research Assistant, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor
2005-2006 Curatorial Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Grants and Awards
2016-2017 TCU Research and Creative Activity Fellowship
Summer 2016 TCU Junior Faculty Summer Research Pay Grant
January-August 2012 Rackham Humanities Research Candidacy Fellowship
2010-2011 Rackham Pre-doctoral Fellowship
2009-2010 Bourse Chateaubriand
Summer 2009 Kress Travel Fellowship
Publications
Journal Articles
“Caricature and Camaraderie in Rome, 1771-1775” (under review)
Edited Volumes
Artistes, savants et amateurs : art et sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle (1715-1815) with Amandine Gorse, Nathalie Manceau, and Nina Struckmeyer (Éditions Mare et Martin, 2016)
Book Chapters
“Friendship at the Salon,” in Artistes, savants et amateurs : art et sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle (1715-1815), ed. Jessica Fripp, Amandine Gorse, Nathalie Manceau, and Nina Struckmeyer (Éditions Mare et Martin, 2016)
“Growing Old in Public in Eighteenth-Century France: Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin and Marie Leszczinska,” in Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century: Essays in Art History from the XVth David Nichol Smith Seminar, ed. Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons (under review, University of Delaware Press)
Book Reviews
Review of Portraiture and Politics in Revolutionary France by Amy Freund, Canadian Journal of History, 51 no. 2 (Autumn 2016): 362-365.
Review of The Perfect Foil: François-André Vincent and the Revolution in French Painting, by Elizabeth Mansfield, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 12, n. 2 (Autumn 2013)
In Progress
Portraits of Artists and the Social Commerce of Friendship in Enlightenment France (book manuscript)
Invited Talks
October 2015 “Forming Friendships in the Eighteenth Century: Studying Abroad at the French Academy in Rome,” Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
April 2014 “Caricature and Rebellion in Rome in the Eighteenth Century,” Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
February 2014 “Artistic Innovation in the Eighteenth-Century Salon,” Guest Lecture, Inventors and Innovation in Socio-historical Perspective, 1620- Present, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
October 2012 “Un portrait hors commerce? Maurice Quentin de la Tour, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard et le portrait d’amitié au XVIIIe siècle,” L’art du portrait en France de 1760 à 1840 : stratégies commerciales et modèles économiques, Université de Lyon 2
Conferences and Conference Panels Convened
March 2016 “Satirical Images: Between Sociability, Animosity, and Entertainment,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA
March 2014 “Selfhood and Visual Representation in the Eighteenth Century,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Williamsburg, VA
June 2011 Art et Sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle/Art and Sociability in the Eighteenth Century, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris, France
Conference Papers
March 2016 “Caricature and Camaraderie at the French Academy in Rome, 1771-1775” Satirical Images: Between Sociability, Animosity, and Entertainment, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
March 2015 “Honoring Geoffrin: Joséphine and Lemonnier’s The First Reading of Voltaire’s tragedy L’Orphelin de la Chine in the Salon of Madame Geoffrin in 1755,” The Circuit of Apollo: Women’s Tributes to Women in the Long Eighteenth-Century Roundtable, American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Los Angeles, California
December 2014 “Femmes au-delà des règles: Growing Old in Public in Eighteenth-Century France,” David Nichol Smith Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies XV, University of Sydney, Australia
October 2014 “Past Patronage Made Present: Joséphine de Beauharnais, Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier, and the Boundaries of Historical Genre Painting,” Evading the Hierarchies of Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, San Juan, Puerto Rico
February 2014 “Facing Age and Aging Faces: Marie-Thérèse Geoffrin and her Pendule,” Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture New Scholars Open Session: The Eighteenth Century, Global and Local, College Art Association Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
October 2013 “Searching for Geoffrin: Old Age, Portraiture, and the Legacy of an Eighteenth-Century Patron,” The Fourth Annual Feminist Art History Conference, American University, Washington, D.C.
August 2012 “Laughing with and Laughing At: Caricatures of Artists in Rome, 1767-1775,” Transporting Bodies, Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Travel, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
June 2011 “Friendship at the Salon,” Art et Sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle/Art and Sociability in the Eighteenth Century, Paris, France
June 2010 “Male Friendship and the Triple Portrait in Eighteenth-Century France,” École de Printemps International Graduate Student Conference, Florence, Italy
March 2009 “Friendship and Fantasy at the French Academy in Rome,” Society for French Historical Studies Annual Conference, Saint Louis, Missouri
July 2007 “Painting the Sociable Artist: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Portrait Exchange in Eighteenth-Century France,” 12th International Congress for Eighteenth-Century Studies Congress, Montpellier, France
October 2006 “Painting Community in Eighteenth-Century France: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s Portraits of Artists,” Princeton University Art and Archaeology Graduate Student, Princeton, New Jersey
June 2005 “Painting Community in Eighteenth-Century France: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard’s Portraits of Artists,” Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art Graduate Symposium, Williamstown, MA
Departmental Service
2015-2018 TCU Gallery Committee
2013-2015 Observation and evaluation of faculty teaching, Parsons School of Design
2012-2013 Member, Critique committee for Art Majors’ Senior Thesis Projects, Catholic University of America
2007-2008 Co-President, Tappan Association for Graduate Students in the History of Art, University of Michigan
Service to the Field
2014-2015 Selection committee, Mary Vidal Memorial Fund (Graduate Student Travel Grant), Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture
Professional Development
November 2013 Talking Teaching Seminar with bell hooks, The New School, New York
February 2013 THATcamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) College Art Association, New York
Professional Affiliations
College Art Association
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture