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About the speaker
Isabelle Masse is a post-doctoral fellow at Université Laval’s Centre de recherche Cultures – Arts – Sociétés (CELAT). After defending a doctoral thesis in Art History at McGill University in 2019, she completed an initial post-doctoral program in the departments of Art History at UCLA (2019–2021) and Concordia University (2020), funded by the FRQSC, Quebec’s research funding agency for the social sciences and humanities. She specializes in the graphic arts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has additional expertise in contemporary photography. Her doctoral dissertation, “Portrait of the Medium, Medium of the Portrait: The ‘Historical Specificities’ of Pastel in the Long Eighteenth Century,” explored the ways in which eighteenth-century discourses and art practices perceived the nature of pastel.