Faculty Profile
Elizabeth Lee
Professor of Art History (2006)
Contact Information
Weiss Center for the Arts
717-245-1259
Bio
Professor Lee teaches courses in modern, contemporary and American art. Her research on American art and the history of the body, health and medicine has appeared in numerous publications, including the journals American Art, Archives of American Art Journal andThe Brooklyn Rail, as well as the edited volumes Routledge Companion to Art and Disability (Routledge, 2022) and Modernism, Art, Therapy (Yale, 2024). Her book, The Medicine of Art: Disease and the Aesthetic Object in Gilded Age America (Bloomsbury, 2022), features an interrelated series of case studies focused on major Gilded Age artists—John Singer Sargent, Abbott Thayer, Augustus Saint-Gaudens—and one collector, Charles Lang Freer, to show how works of art were marked by disease and functioned in medicinal terms for artists and viewers in the late nineteenth century. She is currently working on Eadweard Muybridge's photographs of neurological patients created at the University of Pennsylvania for Animal Locomotion (1887).
Education
- B.A., Wake Forest University, 1990
- M.A., University of Minnesota, 1993
- Ph.D., Indiana University, 2002