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Professor
McPherson has published widely on French art and visual
culture in journals such as the Gazette des Beaux-Arts,
Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Nineteenth-Century Studies,
and the Bulletin Marcel Proust, and has authored
exhibition catalogues on Gavarni’s Images of Women,
Portraiture in the Age of Proust, and Marie Laurencin.
She received the 2001 Southeastern College Art Conference
Award for Excellence in Scholarly Publication for her book,
The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth-Century France (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2001). She was awarded the Frederick
W. Conner Prize in the History of Ideas for her exhibition
catalogue, Fin-de-Siècle Faces: Portraiture in
the Age of Proust. In 1998 she received the President’s
Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Arts and
Humanities.
Professor
Mcpherson’s research focuses in particular on portraiture
and issues of representation including the role played by
photography. Her current project on Art and Celebrity
in the Age of Reynolds and Siddons examines the intersecting
worlds of artist and actor, high art and popular culture
in the late eighteenth-century London and the emergence
of the modern celebrity cult. Her essays on Siddons, caricature,
and the cultural politics have appeared in Eighteenth-Century
Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, and
Notorious Muse: The Actress in British Art and Culture,
1776-1812, ed. Robyn Asleson (Yale University Press,
2003)
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