Kelly Presutti

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Assistant Professor

Publications

Book:

Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France(Yale University Press, 2024).

Select Articles and Book Chapters:

“Foul Histories and Forgotten Objects: French Entanglement in the South Pacific,” The Art Bulletin 107, no. 3 (2025), 39-64. 

“‘Brutal Magic’: Staging Human-Environmental Relations in the Anthropocene,” 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 38 (2025), https://doi.org/10.16995/ntn.17127  

“Wood and Stone: Bernard Palissy’s Environmental Legacy,” Metropolitan Museum Journal59 (2024), 58-72. 

“‘A Better Idea than the Best Constructed Charts’: Watercolor Views in Early British Hydrography,” Grey Room85 (Fall 2021), 70-99.

“The Sèvres’ Service des Départementsand the Anxiety of the Fragment,” Word & Image 37, no. 1 (2021), 21-31.

“Transplanting Visions: Barbizon Artists and Louisiana Landscapes,” in Katie Pfohl, ed. Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana(New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019), 59-83.