Felicity Ratté - Art History,
Dean of Faculty
"I think about the future curriculum in art history as serving two related but distinct purposes," says art history professor and Dean of Faculty Felicity Ratté. Her first objective is to impart to her students an understanding of the methodologies and issues that surround the discipline. The second is to give her students "a sense of the power of visual images for their lives and for history." By providing "a whole array of courses that deal with the question of how images function in society at different historical moments," Felicity endeavors to meet these two distinct, yet correlated aims.
Felicity is the author of the book "The City in Medieval Italian Painting" (McFarland Press: 2006) and has published articles in the journal Gesta. At Marlboro, Felicity teaches an impressive assortment of western art history courses that extend from antiquity to modern times. Although specializing in 13th and 14th century Italian paintings, over the course of her time at Marlboro she has developed an interest in Southeast Asian art and architecture. Felicity is continuously striving to make her art history offerings globally inclusive. "I have begun to think of my discipline in a much more cross- disciplinary way," she says.
B.A., Tufts University, 1985; M.A., New York University Institute of Fine Arts, 1988; Ph.D., New York University Institute of Fine Arts, 1995. Marlboro College, 1997 -