Carol Armstrong

Carol Armstrong is an American professor, art historian, art critic, and photographer. Armstrong teaches and writes about 19th-century French art, the history of photography, the history and practice of art criticism, feminist theory and women and gender representation in visual culture.

In 1986, she received her Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology. She then taught at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was a Townsend Fellow. In 1994, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She then taught at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She joined the tenured faculty at Princeton and became the Doris Stevens Professor of Women’s Studies in 1999. Later, she was the Director of the Program in the Study of Women and Gender from 2004 to 2007. She has been a professor of the History of Art at Yale University since 2007. At Yale, she is also affiliated with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, the Film and Media Studies Program, and the French Department.

Line Into Color, Color Into Line: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings 1962-1987, contributor, Gagosian/Rizzoli, 2017.

Degas: A Strange New Beauty, coauthor, Moma, 2016.

Women Artists at the Millennium, coeditor and contributor, October Books, The MIT Press 2006.

Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolors, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004.

Ocean Flowers, The Drawing Center (New York) and Princeton University Press, Spring 2004, co-editor and contributor.

Manet Manette, Yale University Press (London), 2002.

A Degas sketchbook, J Paul Getty Museum Publications, 2000.

Scenes in a Library: Reading the Photograph in the Book, 1843-1875, M.I.T. Press (October Books), Fall 1998.

Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas, The University of Chicago Press, 1991. CAA Charles Rufus Morey Book Award 1993. Republished as a paperback by Getty Research Center Publications in 2006.

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