Brynne McBryde specializes in art and visual culture from the long nineteenth century with an emphasis on the legacies of Enlightenment thinking in representations of the human body. Her current book project, Embodied Medical Mythologies: Nineteenth-century bodies, medical imagery, and the construction of biological identity, examines the role of French medical illustrations and the modes of looking they create in transforming experiential categories of identity (such as gender, sexuality, and race) into inescapable and visible physiology. Her work draws on methods and insights from art history, the history of medicine and science, disability studies, and gender and sexuality studies.
She teaches a wide variety of art history courses and before joining Seton Hill held positions in the University of Maryland’s multidisciplinary University Honors program and as a Junior Fellow with the Turin Humanities Programme.
Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University, State College PA
MA, George Washington University, Washington DC
BA, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI
Publications
“Nineteenth-Century Intersex Bodies & the ‘Appearance of a Double Sex’: Nadar’s Medical Anti-illustration,” Art History 47:2 (April 2024): 1-21.
