Kathryn Desplanque
Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PhD, 2017 – Art History
Kathryn Desplanque (PhD ’17) is a tenure-track assistant professor of 18th and 19th century European art history in the Art & Art History Department at UNC Chapel Hill. Desplanque earned her PhD at Duke under the supervision of Neil McWilliam, completing a Digital Humanities informed dissertation on how visual artists used satirical imagery as a vehicle to criticize the emergence of a free market for art. Since graduating, Desplanque has been a Carolina Post-Doctoral Fellow for Faculty Diversity at UNC Chapel Hill, and a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University (Ottawa, ON). She currently serves as Member-At-Large on the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Committee at the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and co-Chairs the Board of Directors for the Digital Arts Resource Centre (Ottawa, ON).
