Pratt Institute

Education

Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, Dissertation: “Johann Erdmann Hummel: A Painter of Biedermeier Berlin”
M.A., University of Chicago, Thesis: “An Interpretive Reading of Marcel Duchamp’s The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even”
B.A., English Literature, Kalamazoo College

Biography

Professor Morton’s research focuses on interdisciplinary subjects in nineteenth-century German and Austrian culture, with published articles on topics relating art to Darwinism, anthropology, hypnosis, the uncanny, German nationalism, and music. She is currently publishing a book (Max Klinger and Wilhelmine Culture: On the Threshold of German Modernism) with Ashgate Press that explores Klinger’s work within the context of developments in psychology, evolutionary theory, criminology, and the literary grotesque. Previous books include The Arts Entwined: Music and Painting in the Nineteenth Century (co-edited, Garland 2000) and Pratt and Its Gallery: The Arts and Crafts Years(1998). She served as the secretary of HGCEA (Historians of German and Central European Art) from 2005-2010 and is currently the organization’s president.

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