Overview
Yasemin Altun is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History. Her research focuses on early modern European visual art and culture. Her dissertation, “The Second Hand: Rethinking Women Artists and Collaboration in France, 1650-1800,” explores how early modern practices and theories of collaboration ambivalently shaped women's artistic careers in France during the long eighteenth century. Broader interests include women artists and feminist art histories; histories of authorship and artistic collaboration; early modern concepts of medium and intermediality; representations of the artist’s workplace; and feminist theories of otherness, agency, and autonomy.
Before coming to Duke, she spent a year abroad teaching English in Northern France. She received a B.A. in Art History, and minor degrees in Chemistry and French and Francophone Studies, from the University of Florida in 2018.
Her advisor is Susanna Caviglia, Adjunct Associate Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.
She is also working toward a Certificate in Feminist Studies from Duke’s Graduate Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.