Joseph Monteyne’s first book, The Printed Image in Early Modern London: Urban Space, Visual Representation, and Social Exchange, was published by Ashgate in 2007. A second book, From Still-Life to the Screen: Print Culture, Display, and the Materiality of the Image in Eighteenth-Century London was published by Yale University Press in 2013. His third book, Media Critique in the Age of Gillray: Scratches, Scraps, and Spectres, was published at the beginning of 2022 by the University of Toronto Press. Professor Monteyne has also published articles on seventeenth-century European painting and print culture, including indigenous representation in New France, as well as twentieth-century art in England and Europe, contemporary independent magazine culture, and American popular imagery. He has also written some contemporary art criticism, specifically catalogue essays for the VAG/ Museum London exhibition Myfanwy MacLeod, or There Again (Black Dog, 2014) and for Alex Tedlie-Stursberg (Trapp Projects, 2022). Professor Monteyne’s current research project focuses on ecocritical approaches to early modern landscape, with a particular focus on connections between trees, language, and mediation in British visual culture from the 17^th to early 19^th centuries.

Dr. Monteyne teaches the art history and media cultures of Renaissance Italy and Northern Europe, of Counter-Reformation Rome, 16^th and 17^th century Spain and Spanish America, and the Northern European urban and courtly cultures of the 17^th century. Recent graduate seminars include ‘Early Modern Landscape and Ecocritical Perspectives’,‘Earth, Sea, and Sky: Relational Environments Drawn in Deep Time’, ‘Transhumans, Animals, and Monsters: Renaissance/Early Modern Hybrids’, ‘Vision and its Discontents: Iconophobia, Iconophilia, Iconoclash’, ‘The Visual Culture of Knowledge: Early Modern Art and Science’, ‘The Expanded Field of Early Modern Sculpture’, ‘The Grotesque: Persistence of a Cultural Form’, and ‘The Ecstasy of Violence: Pain and Pleasure in Early Modern Visual Culture’.

Professor Monteyne has been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including a Governor General of Canada’s medal for his Master’s thesis, and postdoctoral fellowships from the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the latter of which he undertook at the Courtauld Institute in London. He has received an Andrew Mellon Fellowship, a William Keck Fellowship for Junior Faculty, and a Robert Wark Fellowship from the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, as well as a Residential Fellowship from the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven. Most recently he was awarded a prestigious Mid-Career Fellowship from the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. He has also been named to the European Science Foundation College of Expert Reviewers for 2020-2023.

Early modern art and print culture 1400-1800