PhD Student, Baroque Art
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Jenna Wendler (she/hers) has a background in early modern and modern European art, with a BA from Kenyon College and a MA from American University.
Her scholarly interests include portrayals of gender, everyday life, and cross-cultural exchange in the early modern world, particularly the 17th-century Dutch Republic. Her MA thesis argued that Caspar Netscher’s 1662 Lacemaker defied gendered societal norms by presenting a working-class migrant woman as embodying ideal feminine domestic virtue.
Jenna has presented her research at several symposia, and interned at institutions such as The Medici Archive Project, the Gund Gallery, the Woman’s National Democratic Club, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston.
Currently, Jenna is a remote archive digitisation volunteer for the Royal School of Needlework at Hampton Court Palace, UK, and she is the senior editor for the digital multidisciplinary journal, Venti: Air, Experience, and Aesthetics.
Research Interests:
- Early Modern and Modern Northern European art, particularly 17th-century Dutch art
- Portrayals of gender and everyday life
- Cross-cultural exchange