Susanna Berger
Prof. Dr. Susanna Berger
Humboldt-Forschungsstipendium für erfahrene Wissenschaftler (Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung)
(01.07.2021 - 31.12.2021 / 01.07.2023 - 30.06.2024)
Freie Universität Berlin
Kunsthistorisches Institut
Koserstr. 20
14195 Berlin
Kontakt: scberger@usc.edu
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Susanna Berger is Associate Professor of Art History and Philosophy at the University of Southern California. In her research and teaching, she explores diverse facets of visual art and intellectual history in early modern Europe (ca. 1500–1800), from overlooked printed and drawn images of a philosophical nature to well-known works in the history of European painting and architecture by Caravaggio, Borromini, and Rembrandt, among others. She received her B.A. from Columbia University (2007) and her M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (2012). From 2013 until 2016 she was a member of the Society of Fellows at Princeton University. In 2019 she was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
Publications
Book
The Art of Philosophy: Visual Thinking in Europe from the Late Renaissance to the Early Enlightenment. (Princeton University Press, 2017)
Chinese translation in preparation
* 2018 Bainton Art and Music Prize for the best book in English in the field of early modern art or music, Sixteenth Century Society and Conference
* 2018 Finalist, Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, College Art Association
* 2018 Runner-up, biennial book prize from the Society of Renaissance Studies
* 2017 Runner-up, “The Bridge” Nonfiction Book Award, House of Literature of Rome, US Embassy of Rome, and American Initiative for Italian Culture
Reviews: Isis (Eileen Reeves); Il Sole 24 Ore (Lina Bolzoni); Historische Zeitschrift (Daniel Bellingradt); Renaissance Quarterly (Elizabeth Savage); The Art Newspaper (Marieke Hendriksen); The Burlington Magazine (Paul Taylor); The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (Thomas Wartenberg); Mind (Roger Ariew); History of Humanities (Floris Solleveld); Print Quarterly (Patricia Emison); Apollo: The International Art Magazine (Kathryn Murphy); The Penniless Press On-Line (Alan Dent); Il Giornale dell’Arte (Loretta Vandi); Artevista (Loretta Vandi); and Art special day: L’Arte del tuo quotidiano (Vanessa Romani).
Edited Volume
Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Text and Image. Co-editor with Daniel Garber (Princeton University) of volume with 9 essays; author of one of the essays and co-author of the introduction. (Forthcoming in 2021 at Springer in Jed Buchwald’s Archimedes series.)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
2021
“Observations on Niccolò Tornioli’s The Astronomers.” Co-authored with Sara Schechner(Harvard University). Annals of Science 78.4 (October): 418-462. Online
“Georg Bartisch’s Ophthalmodouleia and His Theory of Painting and Drawing.” Early Science and Medicine 26.1 (May): 1-54. Online
2020
“From Narcissus to Narcosis.” Art History 43.4 (June): 612-39.
“Meaning and Understanding in Intellectual History.” Global Intellectual History 5.3 (March): 329-54. Online
2015
“Philander Colutius’s Logicae universae typus (1606) and the Visualization of Logic.” Word & Image 31.3 (September): 265-87.
2014
“The Invention of Wisdom in Jean Chéron’s Illustrated Thesis Print.” Intellectual History Review 24.3 (May): 343-66.
2013
“Martin Meurisse’s Garden of Logic.” The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 76.2 (December): 203-49.
“Martin Meurisse’s Theater of Natural Philosophy.” The Art Bulletin 95.2 (June): 269-93.
2012
“‘When Sobriety and Taste Were Cast to the Winds’: A Study of George Walter Thornbury’s The Life of J.M.W. Turner, R.A.” British Art Journal 13.3 (December): 81-88.
2009
“The Complex Genealogy of Hans Holbein the Younger’s Illustrations of Moriae Encomium.” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 84: 223-244.
Book Chapters
2022
“The Arts.” In A Cultural History of Ideas in the Renaissance (1450-1650), edited by Jill Kraye (Forthcoming at Bloomsbury Publishing in 2022.) 11,039 words.
2021
“Philosophical Cartography in Seventeenth-Century Paris.” In Teaching Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Text and Image, eds. Susanna Berger and Daniel Garber. (Forthcoming at Springer in 2021.) 10,173 words.
“Printed Visuals.” In Information: A Historical Companion, edited by Ann Blair, Paul Duguid, Anja-Silvia Goeing, and Anthony Grafton (Princeton University Press), 677-85.
2018
“Reflection: Engraving Pleasure in Philosophy Teaching Aids.” In Pleasure: A History (Oxford Philosophical Concepts), edited by Lisa Shapiro (Oxford University Press), 94-98.
2016
“Philander Colutius and the Visualization of Natural Philosophy.” In Jean Michel Massing’s Festschrift, edited by Philip Lindley and Mark Stocker (Brepols), 33-44.
Blog Posts
2017
“The Art of Philosophy: Visualizing Aristotle in Early 17th-Century Paris.” Invited essay for The Public Domain Review, 1,828 words. August 30. Online (also published as “L’arte della filosofia” in 2018 in an Italian translation by Francesca D’Isa for L’indiscreto; Online)
“The Art of Philosophy.” Invited guest post for Daily Nous, 2,061 words. April 3. Online
Book Reviews
“On Martin, Anna, and Susanna Lister.” Isis. Solicited review of Anna Marie Roos, Martin Lister and his Remarkable Daughters: The Art of Science in the Seventeenth Century. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019 (Forthcoming in 2021).
2020
“Property and Authorship.” The Art Bulletin 102.2 (June): 152-54. Solicited review of Katie Scott, Becoming Property: Art, Theory and Law in Early Modern France. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2018.
“Measurement Measured.” Critical Inquiry. Solicited review of Emanuele Lugli, The Making of Measure and the Promise of Sameness. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Online
2019
“Perfection’s Therapy.” Book Review of Historians of Netherlandish Art (August). Solicited review of Mitchell Merback, Perfection’s Therapy: An Essay on Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I. Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, 2017. Online
2015
“Paul Lautensack’s Divine Diagrams.” Print Quarterly 32.4 (December): 426-27. Solicited review of Berthold Kress, Divine Diagrams: The Manuscripts and Drawings of Paul Lautensack. Leiden: Brill, 2014.
2009
“Images of Erasmus.” Print Quarterly 26.4 (December): 415-18. Solicited review of Peter van der Coelen, et al., Images of Erasmus, exhibition catalogue. Rotterdam: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, 2008.
