Edward Wouk

Biography

Edward Wouk studied at Brown University (BA) and the Courtauld Institute of Art (MA), and completed his PhD at Harvard University in 2010 with a dissertation on the Flemish painter, draftsman, and etcher Frans Floris de Vriendt (1519/20-1570).  He has taught in art history departments at Harvard and the Universität Zürich.  He was a Fulbright Scholar in Belgium, a Reader in Renaissance Studies at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy, and, most recently, held post-doctoral fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where he collaborated on the project ‘Visualising Knowledge in the Early Modern Netherlands’. He will return to Villa I Tatti as the Rush H Kress Fellow for the academic year 2016-2017.

Edward Wouk has co-curated (with David Morris) the exhibition Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael at the Whitworth, The University of Manchester (30 September 2016 - 23 April 2017). The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue, published by Manchester University Press and edited by Edward Wouk, with contributions by a range of international scholars as well as staff and students from The University of Manchester.

Further information

In addition to his current exhibition project Marcantonio Raimondi and Raphael _at the Whitworth, Dr Wouk has collaborated with UK and international scholars on a range of research projects and exhibitions. In 2014-2014, he joined forces with Dr. Guido Rebbechini of the Courtauld Institute of Art to create a student-organised exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery in Spring 2015 entitled _Renaissance Modern.  See the virtual exhibition and learn more about the project here: http://courtauld.ac.uk/gallery/what-on/exhibitions-displays/archive/renaissance-modern

Dr. Wouk''s seminar class ''Renaissance Print Cultures'', offered to upper-level students in the second semester of 2013-2014, coneptualised and organised the exhibition, I_mprinting the Imagination: Northern Renaissance Prints from the Holtorp Collection_, on view at the John Rylands Libray, Deansgate, from 8 May through 26 October 2014. http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/rylands/exhibitions/imprintingtheimagination/.  A catalogue, written by the students in the seminar and edited by Dr. Wouk, is available from the John Rylands Library (ISBN 978-0-86373-900-2).  See the review in the Manchester Evening News: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/john-rylands-library-art-durer-7177203