Brigid Doherty

Clark Fellow

09/04/2023–12/31/2023

Brigid Doherty is associate professor of German and art and archaeology at Princeton University, where she is also an associated faculty member in the School of Architecture and a member of the executive committees for the European Cultural Studies and Media + Modernity programs. At the Clark, she will be completing research for a book on Raphael’s Sistine Madonna (1512/13) and the idea of the “artwork essay” in German-language art history and philosophy in the first half of the twentieth century, with a focus on writings by Heinrich Wölfflin, Walter Benjamin, and Martin Heidegger.