Overview
Yasemin Altun is a Ph.D. Candidate in Art History and Visual Culture.
Yasemin’s research focuses on women artists active in France during the long eighteenth century, particularly those who engaged in group forms of artistic production, including intaglio printmaking, painting à plusieurs mains, and art restoration. More broadly, Yasemin is interested in early modern (ca. 1500-1800) women artists; the gendering of artistic processes, techniques, and materials; histories of group authorship and artistic collaboration; the space of the early modern artist’s studio; early modern forms of intermediality; and feminist theories of freedom, power, and otherness. Her advisor is Susanna Caviglia, Associate Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.
Yasemin is also working toward a Certificate in Feminist Studies from the Graduate Program in Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.
In 2018, Yasemin graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a B.A. in Art History and minors in Chemistry and French. Her honors thesis examined the implications of femininity in the art restoration practice of Marie Jacob Godefroid in eighteenth-century Paris. Before coming to Duke, Yasemin spent a year abroad teaching English in Northern France. She has also held positions at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, and most recently the Musée des Arts décoratifs in Paris.