Jessica Fripp
Undergraduate Art History Coordinator
j.fripp@tcu.edu817-257-6820Moudy North 223
Program Affiliations
Education
University of California, San Diego, BA
Williams College, MA
University of Michigan, Ph.D.
Courses Taught
Undergraduate Courses
- Introduction to Art History
- Imperialism and Visual Culture
- 19th- and 20th-Century Art
- Art Historical Methods
- Eighteenth-Century Art
- Fashion and Identity in the Eighteenth Century
- Modern Art I: Art in an Age of Revolution
- Modern Art II: Modernism in a Time of Change
- Impressionism
Graduate Seminars
- Surface Issues: Painting from 1750-1890
- Eighteenth-Century French Art
- Modern Women Artists, 1780-1900
- Fashion and Identity in the Eighteenth Century
- Representing Women in the Eighteenth Century
- Impressionism
- Life Cycles in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Art
Areas of Focus
- Art and visual culture of the eighteenth century
- Fashion
- Portraiture
- Women and Aging
Books
Portraiture and Friendship in Enlightenment France (University of Delaware Press, Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Art and Culture, 2020)
Edited Volumes
Artistes, savants et amateurs : art et sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle (1715-1815) with Amandine Gorse, Nathalie Manceau, and Nina Struckmeyer (Éditions Mare et Martin, 2016).
Book Chapters
“Growing Old in Public in Eighteenth-Century France,” in Making Ideas Visible in the Eighteenth Century: Essays in Art History from the XVth David Nichol Smith Seminar, eds. Jennifer Milam and Nicola Parsons (University of Delaware Press, 2022).
“Friendship at the Salon,” in Artistes, savants et amateurs : art et sociabilité au XVIIIe siècle (1715-1815), ed. Jessica Fripp, Amandine Gorse, Nathalie Manceau, and Nina Struckmeyer (Éditions Mare et Martin, 2016), 115-126.
Articles
“Anecdote, Anachronism, and Historical Genre: Anicet-Charles-Gabriel Lemonnier’s The First Reading of Voltaire’s tragedy L’Orphelin de Chine in the Salon of Madame Geoffrin,” Eighteenth-Century Fiction, 33, no. 1 (Fall 2020): 25-46. doi: 10.3138/ecf.33.1.25
“Caricature, Pedagogy, and Camaraderie at the French Academy in Rome, 1770-1775,” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 53, no. 1 (Fall 2019): 43–67. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/737991
“Finding the 40-year-old Woman,” American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies Annual Conference, Philadelphia, PA, April 2026
“Women of a Certain Age: Art and Growing Old in the Eighteenth Century,” Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX, January 2026
“Age Advances, Beauty Fades: Growing Older in Eighteenth-Century France,” Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, October 2026
“The French Academy in Rome: Adventures in Bromance,” Annual Rosenberg Lecture, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX, November 2021
- College Art Association
- The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
- Historians of Eighteenth Century Art & Architecture
Last Updated: May 04, 2026