Jennifer Germann Editor

Mechthild Fend is Professor of History of Art, Goethe-University Frankfurt. She specializes in French eighteenth- and nineteenth-century art, with particular interests in feminist art history and its historiography, images of the body, and medical imagery. Her books include Fleshing out Surfaces. Skin in French Art and Medicine (1650-1850), published in 2017. Jennifer Germann is an art historian specializing in women’s history and eighteenth-century French and British art. She has published in Eighteenth-Century Studies, American Art, and cite>Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. She is the author of Picturing Marie Leszczinska (1703–1768): Representing Queenship in Eighteenth-Century France (2015). Melissa Hyde is Professor of Art History and Distinguished Teaching Scholar, University of Florida. She publishes on gender, the visual arts, and women artists and Rococo and its afterlives in the long eighteenth century in France. Books include Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment (with Mary Sheriff) (2017), as well as numerous edited volumes.