Noël Schiller’s research focuses on the art and culture of the Netherlands in the early modern period. She teaches survey courses on seventeenth-century European art and architecture and the Northern Renaissance as well as topical seminars including:

 

•    The Art of Pieter Bruegel and the Culture of the Reformation

•    Seeing the World through Art: Dutch Visual Culture and Colonialism

•    Picturing the Passions: Representing Emotions in European Art, late 15th–17th Centuries

•    Getting the Joke: Laughter and the Comic in Netherlandish Art, 1500–1670

 

Professor Schiller received a Getty Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2008-2009 in order to work on her book manuscript, The Sociability of Images: Laughter and the Art of Painting in Early Modern Dutch Republic.  Dr. Schiller’s project examines laughter as a social practice and as a pictorial strategy. She explores early modern taxonomies of laughter and the passions in terms of contemporary notions of the comic and civility.

 

Before coming to the University of South Florida, Noël Schiller held a Robert H. and Clarice Smith Fellowship from the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts. She was also a recipient of fellowships from the Belgian American Educational Foundation and the American Friends of the Mauritshuis Museum.  Professor Schiller was awarded an Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award by the University of South Florida for the academic year 2007-2008.

 

Publications:

 

 •    “Desire and Dissimulation: Laughter as expressive behavior in Karel van Mander’s Den grondt der edel vry

        schilder-const (1604)”,” Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek (forthcoming)

 •    “’To see ourselves greatly mislead’: the Laughing Deceptions of Jan Miense Molenaer’s Five

        Senses (1637),” Canadian Journal of Netherlandic Studies, special Rembrandt volume (2007)