Nancy Locke

Dr. Locke teaches courses in European art, ca. 1780–1940, and the history of photography from its inception to the present. She is the author of Manet and the Family Romance (Princeton University Press, 2001), and Cézanne’s Shadows: Poussin, Chardin, Rubens (Penn State University Press, 2025). Her articles have appeared in journals such as Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine, History of Photography, and Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, as well as several edited volumes. She contributed essays and research to the exhibition catalogue Manet: A Model Family, edited by Diana Seave Greenwald (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2024) and to Manet, l’inventeur du moderne, edited by Stéphane Guégan (Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2011).

In 2021, Dr. Locke became the president of the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. The recipient of several grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Daedalus Foundation, Dr. Locke has also juried grant proposals for several major granting agencies in the United States and Canada.

• AB from University of Missouri-Columbia
• PhD from Harvard University