Carol Armstrong, appointed to the faculty of the Department of the History of Art at Yale University in 2007, teaches and writes about nineteenth century French painting, the history of photography, the history and practice of art criticism, feminist theory, and the representation of women and gender in art and visual culture. She has published books and essays on Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography, modern and contemporary women artists, and has curated exhibitions at Princeton University Art Museum, the Drawing Center in New York, the Yale Center for British Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. She has been a frequent contributor to October and Artforum magazines, and continues to be an active art critic. She is also a practicing photographer. She is currently finishing a book on Cézanne and his afterlives and working on a new project on modern medium-specificities in the visual and verbal arts, considered from a feminist point of view.